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How long does it take for mint sprouts to grow true leaves?
I have never grown mint from seed. I always get a little start instead. But I was pleasantly surprised you planted them in small pots! That is usually the biggest mistake.
What I am seeing is too ...
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How long does it take for mint sprouts to grow true leaves?
To answer your title question, true leaves usually appear in 2-3 weeks.
Those seedlings look like they need more direct sunlight. From your photo the seedlings, especially those in the red ...
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How to tell if mint plant is dead
Pull or cut off all the dead material, soak the pot so it's wet through, let it drain down, wait a week or two, see if it grows. If it does, you would probably need to turn it out of its pot, cut it ...
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Mint plant or Pennyroyal plant?
The mints are somewhat variable, and the many species and hybrids tend to cross a lot, but pennyroyal has a couple of characteristics that might be helpful: the leaf is generally small, much smaller ...
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How can I increase the size of my mint leaves
This is the same effect we see when a clump of mint is planted in open soil - it starts to form a circle growing outwards, and as the roots get thicker in the middle of the circle the leaves get ...
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Mint Plant growing quite tall, it's often falling
Plants often grow tall, spindly and "leggy" because of not enough light. The poor things are trying to climb up closer to the sun. In order to grow into the form we usually see, a mint may just need ...
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What should I do about ants and aphids in my mint?
Some ant here and there might eat a dead aphid or two, but they seem to actually have a symbiotic relationship, more or less, with the ants using the aphids for sugar, which they actually make, ...
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How do I take care of my mint plant?
Stormy has a nice answer, but I should add a WARNING:
mint can be invasive on your garden, so don't plant in the middle of your garden and keep in mind: How do I eradicate Mint .
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How can I control mint in the garden?
I agree, a flower pot won't work. I have seen it contained successfully in a garden, in the ground, and how the owner did it was to use a galvanized metal dustbin or trashcan, originally intended to ...
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Can you identify what this green plant is that looks like mint?
I can't comment on the 'sweet smelling' aspect, but this looks remarkably like stinging nettle (Urticaria dioica) https://northedinburghgrows.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/nettles-a-very-useful-plant/. It'...
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Mint plant deficiency
All the above are possible and difficult to diagnose.
However, you need to consider the plant:
Mint is a Mediterranean plant and needs very little organic matter, poor soil and very little water. It ...
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Mint plant with white spots and black dots. Possible insect culprit
You've posted a very good image from which it's easy to see this is a Ligurian Leafhopper. The black dots are likely frass (the insect's poo) and they feed by sucking the sap from the leaves and stems ...
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How do I take care of my mint plant?
Is this mint out of doors in your garden? Mint is a good plant to learn with. Doubt you'll be able to kill it. It is one of the hardiest and can easily become a weed. I am thinking you had a hard ...
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Should I Take It Back Or Keep Trying To Bring It Back (Resolved)
No, Mali, take it back. They should be held responsible to make sure you get a healthy plant and know how to care for it! They should have to tell you what they've already added such as fertilizer or ...
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Tiny white spots appearing on mint leaf
This looks like it's probably damage from thrips. The damage is typically superficial unless you get a bad infestation, although the insects are capable of spreading plant pathogens. The leaf and ...
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Herb identification (Possible Satureja viminea)
Satureja viminea (serpentine savory)
Summary from Dave's Garden:
Type: shrub or small tree where not prone to frost (6-8 ft x 8-10
ft)
Light: Full sun to part shade
Water: average pH: 5.6-7.5
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Pinching vs Pruning
It depends on the plant type. For example with bonsai it is recommended to pinch conifers (pines) instead of cutting them with scissors. The reason is that you can cut needles in half and they will ...
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Will rubbing alcohol make my basil inedible?
Isopropyl alcohol acts as a desiccant and melts the wax that is some insects bodies.
It also evaporates so very little remains. It is not absorbed by the plant and washing with water after you ...
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Automatic Watering System for VERY small pots and seedlings?
One way this is done on a larger scale (it might provide food for thought, or perhaps you are a person who likes to tinker with automation on a smaller scale):
A "mist sensor" is basically a bit of ...
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Automatic Watering System for VERY small pots and seedlings?
What I usually do for seeds, and since they don't mind being overwhelmed with water (different thing when the plant has grown), is the following.
I don't use plastic, the soil does not breath; I use ...
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What variety is my mint plant/why does my tea taste grassy?
I think you are right about your mint plant. It looks just like what I have heard called "Spearmint". Big heavily-textured bright green leaves and sometimes purplish stems. Peppermint has smaller, ...
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Is it safe to change the soil completely for mint? And is it bad for the plants that the roots are sticking out?
As you have probably discovered by now, mint is pretty sturdy. If you want to keep it in a pot, potting soil is absolutely fine, much better than garden soil.
So yes, go ahead and transplant it into ...
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Why is my mint plant drying out?
Mint likes moist soil and will tolerate shade (ref) so if the plant were mine I would cut back the unsightly part and then dunk the entire pot in a bucket of water for an hour or so. Then drain off ...
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Help identifying pest
I suspect red spider mite if worst on the underside of the leaf. The ants may be there because of the mites.
applestar:
try holding a piece of white paper under the stem while the plant is dry and ...
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How can I control mint in the garden?
Just use a couple of large pots ( at least 30 cm deep ), and sink them into the ground. By double potting you can prevent the roots from escaping out the bottom. And by being in ground it won't dry ...
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What's wrong with my mint?
Thanks for posting the image of the underside. It's Mint Rust, and in Europe, there's no effective fungicide treatment available to treat it with, and anyway, fungicide use is not advised on edible ...
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How long does it take for spearmint leaves to regrow?
First, the individual leaves will not grow back. The plant in its entirety will continue to grow, and new growth will appear, in various places:
At the tips of the existing stems, in pairs, ...
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Problem with herbs
It looks like Fungal Leaf Spot. The tiny black spots are called 'fruiting centers', that is where the active part of the fungus makes and then sends out new fungal spores.
The easiest way to control ...
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Why is my mint plant growing like this?
I agree with both previous answers - your mint needs a lot more daylight. that's why it's getting tall and lanky, shortage of light. They really prefer full sun but also grow well in partial shade (so ...
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Planting mint rhizomes
Considering it's a weed, it will grow almost anywhere with little to no care (unless the area gets extremely dry). I've had success growing them from runners chopped in pieces like the ones you ...
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