A better question might be: would it be better suited for a “houseplant” community, since this is more gardening and general nature inspired?
I need this so bad, the only plants I can keep alive are orchids (both are two years old now) and I want to have other things but they always just die so fast.
That’s funny, out of all the plants I have, I’ve never owned an orchid because (ironically) I’ve been concerned about their care! I know now they’re nothing to be scared of but I had that mindset when I first started collecting and I guess it just stuck lol.
I think it’s really just getting the soil and pot right tbh. I have based mine on the “wiffle ball” technique except instead of buying a wiffle ball I just made a bark clump in the middle and then wrapped the roots and bark with sphagnum moss, and then bark + moss on the top to try to hold some of the moisture in, each in a good orchid pot. That made them pretty happy as before they were just hanging on and were dealing with root rot from the pot they came in. I stick my finger in the bark occasionally and soak them for like 15 minutes when they’re dry. I think it’s about every week and a half.
Right now I’m trying to keep a little hydrangea alive that we bought our son, I think it had pretty bad transplant shock when I repotted it. It’s lost all the flowers and leaves after a month or so but I see new leaf growth so I’m just holding steady trying to make sure it’s getting water only when it needs it.
Fuck yeah, let’s go!
On another note: do you have some sort of irrigation system set up, or are you watering manually?
I always seem to overwater, so I’d love on-site on how OP manages watering.
We have a lot more plants than OP (over 400), and my partner swears by the Planta app. A lot of our’s are outside, so in the summer it would be so much more work if we didn’t have something to track them.
I’m in awe
But YES!!! the planta app is amazing! It’s definitely not to be listened to 100% of the time when it comes to watering, but it is an absolute plant bible!
Oh wow! We have 47 plants right now and that seemed like a lot. I see we were wrong, ha! I also use an app, however I find myself watering outside the schedule all the time… kind of as needed. Need to stick to the schedule more, I imagine it will make it easier.
Not the OP, but I water weekly (I picked Sunday) and you get on board or die. (No one has died.)
Please do! That’s not spammy, that’s like a daily bite sized lesson!
I’d be interested in that!
That would absolutely be worthwhile of interest, one post a day is FAR from spammy
Thanks for the insight! I was worried since lemmy is still kicking off if overflowing communities would be a bother but then I guess it’s better to Kickstart things too.
Ah, that’s going to be fixed with lemmy 0.18, which has already been released, beehaw should be adding it around tuesday.
So, i’d say don’t even worry about it!
Oh yeah, I’m on .ml, I think they already did 1.8. Jeroba has finally stopped being so buggy for me. Though…I do worry some of the things being said about .ml. I’m just a take it as it comes kinda person.
