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ferns (by flora-file)

maidenhair, boston, five finger, western sword

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I just saw another post about this so this is a public service annoucement.

Stop watering your orchid with ice!

Take that tag and chuck it in the garbage! Phalaenopsis orchids are tropical and will slowly suffer when treated this way.

Phal Orchids are incredibly easy to take care of, the problem is all the purposeful misinformation.

To water your orchid, soak the plant in a sink of room temp water for 15-30 min about once a week then shake the water off. If the moss/bark is still damp between waterings leave it until the moss/bark dries. Be careful to not get the leaves or center (crown) of the plant wet, remove the water from the leaves with a paper towel if you do by accident.

Miss Orchid Girl on Youtube has some amazing video guides on care

#yes this!! #the advice under the keep reading for watering is completely true #and absolutely what i do with my orchids #phalaenopsis orchids are so easy to care for #no ice for these babies!

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Time lapse of 2 Queen Of The Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms

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Plant of the Day

Friday 3 February 2023

This bench of carnivorous plants at Duthie Park was grown by the junior members of the Royal Horticultural Society of Aberdeen. These plants grown in acidic conditions and attract, trap and digest animals, mainly insects, for the nutrients they contain. The flowering plant is a Pinguicula species (butterwort) that is an insectivorous perennial producing rosettes of sticky, pale green leaves.

Jill Raggett

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Aroids at the USDA botanic garden facility

#plants #botanic gardens #usda botanic garden #gardens #greenhouse

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Visiting the actual US Botanic Gardens after the USDA facilities! I'm always down for a good botanical garden

#plants #botanic gardens #botanical gardens #us botanic gardens #greenhouse #gardens

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Got to visit the USDA facility that provides the specimens for the US Botanic Gardens while I'm in DC/Arlington for my first weed science conference! The plants there were so cool and it was really fun to get to hear from on of the botanists who works there

#plants #botanic gardens #us botanic garden #usda #greenhouse #ill be posting a bunch from this visit and this week #lol thats my friend at the end i forgot he did that

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been thinking about alternation of generations in ferns again and oh my god I see the patterns. i feel like this

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my brother sent me this photo of his cat and i’m gonna lose my mind. he looks like a kingdom hearts character 

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I feel that "lawn care" as promoted in the USA can be considered some kind of pseudoscience.

It doesn't have the conspiracy-theory-adjacent qualities of virtually every other "pseudoscience," which makes me hesitant to call it that, but the theory and method of it is still full of totally unsupported junk.

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I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

Feel free to repost, no need for credit

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i have NO idea who on earth would find this useful aside from me but i made this as a resource for work, it's the 2022 list of seeds considered noxious weeds for the entire US via the federal seed act with images of each of them (individual states have their own lists that may or may not feature any of these). still tracking down photos of some but here it is, also posting here so i dont lose it

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What are you going to school for?

In other words, what are you majoring in?

I assume these were both you, anon. Thanks for asking! I'm going to grad school in the Biological Agriculture department at my university. Majors aren't really a thing in grad school, it's department and your specific project that matter. So like in a way I'm 'majoring' in BioAg/Weed science but what really matters is the research projects I'll be working on! Now I just started so this can totally evolve in the future but right now my project is looking at the role of oxidation, specifically reactive oxygen species, in herbicidal activity.

For a little background reactive oxygen species are reactive molecules containing oxygen that are formed during oxidative processes in cells and eventually scavenged and disposed of by enzymes and other antioxidants. These processes are completely normal and actually have been shown to be beneficial to cells through cell signaling. When plants are under stress their cells can produce more of these molecules and overwhelm their systems, causing damage to their cells. When thinking about herbicides in this context, something that would extremely stress a plant, we would assume and know that reactive oxygen species are formed either as a direct or secondary result of application. Our goal is to look at the specific role of each of these molecules after application of a variety of herbicides.

I am super excited about this project as it will bring in a lot of the chemistry skills I learned in undergrad that I haven't got to use in a long time and also teach me a lot about plant research!

#asks #grad school asks #grad school stuff #grad school #plant science #herbicides #weed science

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Another plant I've been working with are these sicklepod plants

These wont be part of my doctoral research just something I'm helping advisor with. In the wild this plant's seeds germinate after abrasion to the seed coat, likely from environmental conditions. So to grow them in a greenhouse you either need to send them through a machine that will scarify, or scratch up, the coat or use an acid capable of dissolving the seed coat. We didnt have access to said machine so we dissolved the seed coat in different concentrations of hydrochloric acid and germinated the seeds on petri dishes and then transplanted the successful seeds to see how they'd grow

#plants #grad school stuff #grad school #gardening #plant research

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Learning how to grow basic Arabidopsis and just transplanted them the other day. This plant will be the model system for most of my research so I'll be growing Tons of these in the future

If you dont know, Arabidopsis is the main model species used in botanical research and are related to mustard! The grow very fast and small so they're very easy to work with for researchers and there are so many resources to work with their genome, which is completely mapped out and accessible by the work of tons of researchers! Collaborative science is the best!

#arabidopsis #arabidopsis thaliana #grad school stuff #grad school #plant research #plants

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Big move before and after plant setup

The move was pretty stressful and the new place is kind of small in comparison so I ended up not being able to keep most of my plants and I'm really sad about it, but I'll build it back up eventually!

A couple of the plants are still back in Kansas with my parents so I'll get them later, like my giant spider plant. I still have two of the big pothos pots I had but they are going to get relocated to my office at school. Also my orchids made it and are in another room, I'll show y'all later.

#plants #gardening #potted plants #big move #moving plants #succulents #cacti