#soil drainage

[tenth-sentence]

It allows the soil to store water better in dry times, and to drain better in heavy rains.

"Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy" - Matthew Evans

#book quote #soil #matthew evans #nonfiction #soil carbon #soil health #carbon storage #carbon sequestration #carbon #rain #drainage #soil drainage #water storage

[keskeaa]

I’ve never had much of a green thumb, but I’m doing my best with this succulent. The she used to look more like a palm tree with how extended it was. I’m talking five inches tall. I learned that this means you gotta behead and replant it, as well as find a sunnier spot. I hope I didn’t just kill this baby who’s been with me since 2019, but so far It seems she’s doing really well! It used to be just a stump in the soil, and now I can’t (gently) pull it out due to all the roots it grew. I replanted in mid to late august so that’s pretty good progress! If I did it horribly wrong like I feared she would’ve withered by now.

The leaves are more of an experiment. I heard I could propagate them and in all honesty didn’t do much research on that. Judging by the control leaf (left side, in my fingers) I’m at least doing something right. If they get roots, I have a new pot ready and waiting for them.

#any advice or tips are welcomed #plantblr #succulent #her previous pot didn’t have a drainage hole or drainage soil so I fixed that with this repotting #now I don’t need to live in fear of root rot killing her #plant propagation #plant care #since the roots are short I soak the soil maybe a little too often but now since she’s officially taken root #my plan is to only giv her a good soak when the soil is dry dry.

[plant-dad-sulu]

it's a good thing I like my apartment because the second this thing has a plant in it I'm never moving again

#The aloe is going in there #But if the monstera gets big enough I'll reconsider #The pot and soil and dollie materials were all free thank god #Even the aloe was free way back when #Only thing that cost me money was the metal serving plate for drainage and I got that at value village lol #Anyways if I have to move after this I'm fucked #Plant dad in action #nottrek #Also ignore how shit that other plant looks #It pretty much died when I went on vacation and I've been trying to revive it for 2 months #Somehow it still had new growth so I'm very distantly optimistic #Hopefully when summer comes around being on the balcony will bring it back it's too dry in here #Hmm #I may need a second set of hands to repot this aloe now that I think of it #Stay tuned

[galacticnova3]

I have pet isopods now

#rambling #isopods #invertibrates #porcellio scaber #bugs #they have the koi morph and were $10 at the Arlington NARBC #also i know they aren’t technically bugs but they are in spirit #also it helps folks who want bug-like stuff filtered #anyways they’re gonna get a bigger house sometime this week hopefully #I’m setting up a terrarium for them and the graffiti legion #Aka Vandalism’s 100+ spiderlings who have been living in a plastic bag for those unaware of my Charlotte’s Web moment #already have a drainage layer set up but am washing the soil I plan to use as substrate #since I wanna make sure it doesn’t have any pesticide residues or pathogens #drying it will take a not small amount of time

[lysenkoite]

Wonderful news, I've gotten permission from a farmer to plant some of my trees on his land

#its such a good spot #its open so there's plenty of sunlight #and near to a little drainage ditch so water gathers at that end of the field #and there's nearby trees of the same species so the soil ph must be good for them #and best of all it's on a public footpath so I can easily come back and visit them when I'm older

[jedi-bird]

Went and bought two large bags of potting soil and one regular size cactus/citrus mix. Used all of it in less than an hour. Replanted the geranium that came from my grandparent's house, finally planted my last rose, got the elephant ear tuber into a pot, and replanted all of the lemon bros (aka the Deke Squad) and the orange/grapefruit hybrid my partner's aunt gave me. Being outside for a bit today felt really good. It was a pleasant distraction.

I also did some sorting out this morning and found my old ikea bear; decided to keep him out and have him one of my old Rogue One shirts since they don't fit me anymore. I think it suits him.

#adventures in gardening #the yard still needs a lot of work but some of it has to wait #my partner needs to help me break down the old basketball hoop that fell down two years ago #unfortunately we can't use the bulky pickup option this year because my mother in law claimed them all #but at least i can get it out of the way and we can sit outside and enjoy the evenings once we move it #I've never had an elephant ear before and I'm excited to see if i can grow it #it'll be green and white speckled if it does #my partner's grandparents grew a lot of them so they insist they're easy #need to order some bonsai wire for the lemons since i want to train some of them #I'm so happy that five of them are still alive though realistically what am i going to do with five lemon trees lol #but they're my babies and i love them #still need to drill extra drainage holes in the raised bed and then buy a ton of soil to fill it for the succulents #also need to drill drainage holes in the pots for the indoor plants so i can finish transplanting them #it's good to have goals lol

[elminx]

The problem that I have with buying a houseplant from a store is that almost always the soil is very problematic and then I want to repot the plant immediately to give it drainage, but I also know that I shouldn't.

This problem is equally bad when somebody else gives me a cutting (y'all really need to learn to drainage) that they have rooted.

The problem with cuttings that I root and pot myself (I know that they are going into good soil this way, a big plus) is that they are tiny plants and I have to wait for them to become a huge jungle for which I am very impatient.

#personal #anecdote #words #mine #houseplants #my philo is so pretty but that soil has no drainage #I poked holes in the soil with a chopstick to try and help #but?!? #I'm afraid of overwatering it because of its soil #elminx worries about htings

[vvolkulja]

succulent leaves i rescued from the office are finally sprouting more leaves!!! took them long but it was true that they only needed patience lol though what really helped imo is the fact i made them a tiny clingfoil greenhouse and they are thriving

#can almost transfer the biggest one in its new pot soon!!! #might have to go shopping for some succulent soil tbf #and good pots though i planned to make drainage holes and paint the one pot i have #moje

[savageboar]

my new pet.

#purple mini rose bush :) #yes im aware they can grow 1-2ft tall and wide im prepared for this reality #im gonna keep an eye out for a pretty pot to put it in and potting soil #maybe add some peat moss for drainage? #hades.txt

[killerchickadee]

Hoyas grow pretty slowly so I don't begrudge her doing her thing.... but she's been growing this... stick ever since I got her back in April. There's finally a tiny bud of a leaf (ONE leaf) on it but.... literally this stick has more growth than any other part of the plant.

#all my plants are THRIVING except my poor dieffenbachia which might not make it #i need to switch the soil out for one with more wood chippies or something in it #but i can't afford potting mix right now #what's funny is i didn't have the proper soil for my hoya either #they need good drainage #....so i scooped gravel out of my old fishtank and mixed it with the soil lmao

[besnouted]

why has every succulent ive gotten come with the worst soil mix known to man

#every single one comes in this awful dense soil that SHRINKS LIKE A DRY SPONGE #WHEN IT DRIES COMPLETELY... #AND THEN BECOMES HYDROPHOBIC MAKING IT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO ACTUALLY SOAK THE ROOTS LIKE YOU NEED TO #like i am not even a Succulent Liker and i know the two most important things are fast drainage and root soaking #the exact two things that do not happen when your soil mix dehydrates into a brick

[pandoratelenor]

Poor impulse control caused me to replant this plant In The Wrong Season

(Late october. In fact the very last day of october)

I hope it survives despite this...

#i was just gonna add some better drainage to the bottom of the pot #so all the roots which were trying to escape the cold and poor if soil enviroment in the pot #talking lurker #would not root" #famous last words this plant heard before i replanted it

[galactigatorr]

i know yall are expecting art but i just wanna brag about what i did today :)

#i went out and bought drainage for the soil and two of the succulents and everything so i Really hope they dont die this time :') #plants #succulents

[reflectionsofgalaxies]

Plant mini update!

The little pepper plants are LOVING this little terrarium-like setup, I have six seedlings now (you can only see four here bc of the angle) which is I think about a 80% germination rate?

Which is pretty good for some kitchen scrap seeds that I didn’t bother to dry or anything before just tossing them in relatively low-quality soil. The leaves are a lot fuller and the stems are a lot thicker than the ones I’m growing ‘properly’ in a pot. Might have to experiment further with conditions like this for my bell peppers?

#to be clear I don’t lid them I leave it open #but because of the curved top it traps condensation pretty well #I was actually worried when I first tossed these guys in that I had drowned them or that they’d rot #bc the soil was drenched and there’s no drainage #but obviously it worked out fine! #I just mist the top now when the top soil gets dry bc the bottom is staying nice and damp (but not soggy) #bell pepper plants #plant experiment #my plants #kitchen scrap gardening #still dunno how I’m gonna repot these boys #some might have to be sacrificed :( #personal

[officialbillhader]

What ive learned from my everlasting mulberry porch tree is that it can take a lot of abuse

#awesomepie3221 #first its pot broke bc of the extreme cold #but the cold also froze our balcony doors shut so i couldnt get it a new pot until it got warmer #meaning the roots were exposed to extreme cold #and now i got a new pot over a month ago but im still so new at gardening i didnt realize i had to #break out the bottom to give it drainage holes #so last week water on top of it froze #then it melted and i pourd it out #but it rained so much that it was soaked in water AGAIN #and now i dumped it out again #realized i need to break open the holes #did that #gave it more (dry) soil to help with how wet its soil is #and the tree is still bendy so i think its alive #hopefully it stays that way

[hsmagazine254]

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