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Post by ladymarmalade on Oct 16, 2018 13:46:42 GMT -5
It's been about six years since I've actually had houseplants. The last time I had some in my possession, we had to move most of our stuff into a storage unit for a month, and my plants went to a friend to hang onto. Well, I never did claim them, which worked out since a year after that we moved into a tiny house with no room for indoor growing. But now I have a fine sunny south facing window and all kinds of indirect lighting, so I plan to plant it up! The first four plants in my collection: Pothos, Luna Croton (Codiaeum), Florida Beauty (Dracaena godseffiana) and Wandering Jew. I'm going to need to get an actual plant stand/table type thing for this window because it makes me nervous to water plants over books. Plus I need a LOT more room for a pepper or two in this window. And maybe some herbs.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Oct 16, 2018 15:03:26 GMT -5
Here's a hint, esp. for watering over books: get some larger trays under the pots. This way, there's a lot more room for excess water. Can't help with what you have there now (none edible!), but you might need more light for peppers, and maybe basil - those I couldn't grow in front of my south facing window, where I put my lime trees, curry tree, and bay laurel, and they grow almost too well.
I just got the rest of mine inside today. Thursday night is supposed to be our first frost. I kept waiting for the big pots to lighten up, but it kept raining! Another reason that I wanted them to dry out considerably is that I always water them with a solution of Bt israelensis, to prevent the fungus gnats. I did it the first time about 2 weeks ago, after about 5 days with no rain (unheard of here!), and I'll do it again, the first time I water them indoors. I do this every 4 or 5 weeks, and never have a problem with gnats.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Oct 16, 2018 21:06:38 GMT -5
It's hard to tell from the picture, but I did put some really classy aluminum cake pans under some of the pots to catch water. But you know how sometimes you dribble on a leaf and the leaf funnels the water to exactly where you don't want it? Sadly, I did not get the chance to reclaim a pepper plant from outside. It just never stopped raining- until it got suddenly super cold and both frosted and froze. B-|On the plus side, no worries about fungus gnats or any other creepy crawlies. I'm not sure at all which peppers I want to get going for some inside fun. I might also play with a basket tomato. My experience with indoor tomatoes is that they don't taste very good. But they're fun to watch grow!
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Post by september on Oct 16, 2018 21:40:45 GMT -5
I don't have nearly as many house plants as I used to, but I really need some greenery in the house during the winter. My living room looks so bare and plain when the plants go outside in the summer. I vowed I was only going to keep my three citrus and one hibiscus plus a few epiphytic type cacti. When we are gone all of January, I don't want to burden my neighbor lady with watering more than once a week. But this summer I was longing to grow some of the hanging basket string of pearls and string of hearts type of plants again. I had some nice ones that I kept going with cuttings for a long time, but let them peter out due to neglect. We don't have any specialty tropical plant nurseries locally, so I ordered one plant through Amazon. It should arrive in a few days, hope it's in decent shape. I've grown a few tomatoes indoors, but they all get very stringy and eventually developed a white mildew from being next to cold windows. I don't care to use supplemental light, I'm sure they would do better with it. I started a couple of parthenocarpic cuke seeds too late for a fall greenhouse, I will try to grow them in my south bay window, but I don't expect they will do any better than the tomatoes. It's always fun to experiment, though.
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