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| bio | website | synetech.dyndns.org |
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| location | South-western Ontario, Canada | |
| age | 63 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
| seen | May 8 at 16:15 | |
| stats | profile views | 4 |
This account is for my mother (the 62 in the profile) who is an avid gardener (though her health problems mean I have to do a lot of the “heavy lifting” for her). :-|
Living in Canada limits her options somewhat, but she nevertheless grows a plethora of flowers (including 6' tall lilies of numerous colors), vegetables (our record was a harvest of about 15 different kinds), and herbs (again our record is about 10 different kinds).
My favorite documentary on plants (and indeed on anything) is the incredible BBC mini-series How to Grow a Planet.
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May 8 |
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Grapevine leaking water and white mucus My concern is that if it is/was an infection or something, cauterizing it like that would trap the disease in the plant instead of letting it eject it. |
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May 8 |
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Grapevine leaking water and white mucus Added new information and reformatted for structure. |
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May 4 |
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Grapevine leaking water and white mucus Added new information. |
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May 3 |
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Grapevine leaking water and white mucus Added photos and new information. |
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May 1 |
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Grapevine leaking water and white mucus This question is similar (except for the viscosity) and the photo is the same. I’ll post a photo and check the smell today or tomorrow. |
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May 1 |
asked | Grapevine leaking water and white mucus |
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Dec 22 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Oct 15 |
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Wintering Carnivorous Plants Fixed typo. |
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Oct 10 |
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Wintering Carnivorous Plants Okay, but what (typically) triggers the dormancy? Temperature? Humidity? Light? Surely it’s possible to encourage them to hibernate even indoors. |
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Oct 9 |
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Wintering Carnivorous Plants Yes, but you implied that she would somehow be interfering with it. I’m asking how she would be interfering with it and how to allow it to happen. |
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Oct 9 |
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Wintering Carnivorous Plants Unfortunately, we have electric heaters, and Ontario started time-of-use billing this year, so it’s too expensive to have heating in the winter. It’s already getting cold (early spring, early winter I guess), but because there’s a bunch of plants indoors (she brought several palms, cacti, flowers, herbs, and small trees inside for the winter), it’s actually fairly humid upstairs—perhaps not bog-humid, but noticeably. What do you mean by dormancy? How would they do it on their own and how would she be preventing it/allow it? (they can sleep in the winter since there’s no bugs). |
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Oct 4 |
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Wintering Carnivorous Plants Added some details. |
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Oct 4 |
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Wintering Carnivorous Plants They grow in the wild here and there aren’t too many bugs during the winter, so I guess it makes sense that they would essentially hibernate. |
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Oct 4 |
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Wintering Carnivorous Plants I’m not sure which ones we will/would get until the stores actually get them in (I called around a few months ago and they said that they don’t get them until ~Sep-Nov). I am using the fact that there are four varieties growing in a local bog as a general guideline of what may/should be available and survivable here. So CPs can survive on soil, water, sun, etc. like others and don’t need the meat? That’s a relief. I considered that they may not be too effective either, but I’ve always wanted one, so I’d be happy tending it even as just a novelty on my desk. :-) |
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Oct 4 |
asked | Wintering Carnivorous Plants |
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May 30 |
awarded | Enthusiast |
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May 14 |
awarded | Commentator |
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May 14 |
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How can I deal with the beetles eating my grapevine? I saw garlic, hot peppers, and mint recommended, so I suggested making a pungent spray with them. In the meantime she tried an idea of her own, so we'll try the spray if it doesn't work. |
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May 7 |
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How can I deal with the beetles eating my grapevine? It looks promising; I’ll let her know to keep an eye out for it. |
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May 6 |
awarded | Editor |
