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We're rescuing this #jadeplant from my MIL
😢
I would love to get some advice from someone knowledgeable about jades. 🙏
It was being kept outside in the shade, so only indirect light. We're in N TX == 100 degrees for the last several weeks. I believe she was watering it very frequently.
The last time I saw it was a couple months ago, and it was gorgeous.
Help! What do?

#houseplants
We're rescuing this #jadeplant from my MIL
😢
I would love to get some advice from someone knowledgeable about jades. 🙏
It was being kept outside in the shade, so only indirect light. We're in N TX == 100 degrees for the last several weeks. I believe she was watering it very frequently.
The last time I saw it was a couple months ago, and it was gorgeous.
Help! What do?

#houseplants
We're rescuing this #jadeplant from my MIL
😢
I would love to get some advice from someone knowledgeable about jades. 🙏
It was being kept outside in the shade, so only indirect light. We're in N TX == 100 degrees for the last several weeks. I believe she was watering it very frequently.
The last time I saw it was a couple months ago, and it was gorgeous.
Help! What do?

#houseplants
We're rescuing this #jadeplant from my MIL
😢
I would love to get some advice from someone knowledgeable about jades. 🙏
It was being kept outside in the shade, so only indirect light. We're in N TX == 100 degrees for the last several weeks. I believe she was watering it very frequently.
The last time I saw it was a couple months ago, and it was gorgeous.
Help! What do?

#houseplants
We're rescuing this #jadeplant from my MIL
😢
I would love to get some advice from someone knowledgeable about jades. 🙏
It was being kept outside in the shade, so only indirect light. We're in N TX == 100 degrees for the last several weeks. I believe she was watering it very frequently.
The last time I saw it was a couple months ago, and it was gorgeous.
Help! What do?

Top 10 Gardening Trends for 2025 from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society https://www.allforgardening.com/1926089/top-10-gardening-trends-for-2025-from-the-pennsylvania-horticultural-society/ #annuals #ClimateChange #drought #education #FeaturedHome #GardeningPennsylvania #GardeningTrends #houseplants #MentalHealth #pennsylvania #PennsylvaniaHorticulturalSociety #perennials #SocialMedia #sustainability #trend!! #tropicals #UrbanAgriculture #UrbanFarming #VerticalFarming #water #WaterManagement #YearInReview

How to Transition Your Container Garden Indoors Ahead of the First Freeze https://www.allforgardening.com/1811889/how-to-transition-your-container-garden-indoors-ahead-of-the-first-freeze/ #ContainerGarden #garden #gardening #houseplants #ImageCredits #PottedPlants #TropicalPlants

Smith’s Gardentown, Wichita Falls, TX https://www.allforgardening.com/1797309/smiths-gardentown-wichita-falls-tx/ #backyard #BackyardGarden #BackyardLandscape #BackyardLandscapes #BackyardLandscapingIdeas #design #gardening #greenhouse #GreenhouseGrower #houseplants #landscaping #plants #texas #TexasGardening #WichitaFallsTx

It’s been a while since I last showed up - time to fix that! So here’s a new little kitty for you! 🐱✨

#pixelart #cat #catart #plants #plantart #houseplants #cozyart #cuteart #animalart #softcolors #pastelart #softaesthetic #cozyvibes #relaxingart #chillart #kawaii #digitalart #illustration #artwork #cutestyle #aestheticart #indoorgarden

Winterizing ferns in my Freedom Avenue laundry room, 1995. I have propagated these porch plants from three original Klinglers' Produce ferns, for over thirty years. #plant #plants #houseplant #houseplants #fern #ferns #bostonfern #bostonferns #propagate #growing #winterize

I bought three $1 succulents from the clearance section of a local big box store a few days ago, and today I potted them all and found they're in excellent health...

so I'm going back at 10 pm on a Sunday to buy the entire rest of the clearance succulent rack.

I *am* taking questions at this time, primarily if the questions are "why are you so awesome," "how many succulents are there," and "are you going to name them."

#plantstodon #plants #houseplants #PlantDad

#WeeklyPlant Week 31

There’s an hashtag going over on Mastodon where each week, from Monday to Sunday, people share a plant photo tagged with #WeeklyPlant. You don’t need a garden, nor an house plant to participate. Saw a weed on a wall on your way to work? Share a photo with the hashtag and the number of the week and you’re in. You also don’t need to talk about the plant, just the photo will suffice. But if you want to use this as an excuse to learn something new every week, go ahead.

I’m starting with this schlumbergera, also known as Christmas Cactus, because they flower around then. But don’t get fooled, unlike cacti, they like humidity (perfect for bathrooms), and don’t do well with strong sunlight, nor very high temperatures. In Autumn (Europe), in the months before flowering season, you can move them to a cooler and more darker place to stimulate buds formation. When they appear, you can move it back to its original place.

If you want to propagate it, choose three leaves in Y form and pinch them at the arrow in the photo. Taking these cuts in the Spring will also encourage the plant to get more stems and thus more flowers.

Leave it for a day or two so it dries a little bit and then plant it, pushing the bottom into no more than 1 cm in a well draining small pot with compost. Once the roots are formed, you can move it to another vase.

#ChristmasCactus #HousePlants #Nature #Plants #Schlumbergera #WeeklyPlant

New leaf alert!
Does anyone else get excited when their plants (especially big ones like monstera) are about to open up a brand new leaf?
🍃🌿🪴⭐️
#Gardening #GardenSky #Farming #FarmSky #Urbangardening #Urbanfarming #SmallFarmLife #OrganicFarming #GreenHeart #HousePlants #BotanySky #RegenAg

That happy feeling when your wife asks you to make something keep the dirt in place while she's cleaning plants, and you knock something together in a few minutes in the new tool you're learning (OnShape).

It's on the printer now :)

#3dPrinting #3dDesign #HousePlants #PlantCare #3DModeling #Gardening #CADDesign #Makers #Onshape

I found a really effective and safe method of getting rid of spider mites on your houseplants and seedlings that I want to share with you here:

The agent used is Potassium-based liquid soap (all liquid soaps are made with Potassium Hydroxide or KOH). Ideally, you'd find a "horticultural soap" or "insecticidal soap" that doesn't contain fragrances or other additives, but most plants, even young seedlings, will tolerate a bit of that with the method I'll describe and if you buy the cheapest soap dispenser refills you can find they won't have much of the additives anyway or there wouldn't be any profit in selling it.

Anyway, what you do is make a whole lot of foam out of your liquid soap. Use high pressure water hose or similar over uneven surface that you squirted your liquid soap over. Once you've got your foam nice and thick, start coating your plants with it, also from underneath the leaves and try not to let too much of it fall onto your soil / substrate / growth medium. Thick enough foam should stick to leaves where you applied it. Do this in the shade of course and let your plants remain covered in foam for 5-10 minutes, then gently wash it off with water. Let the plants dry up in shade before moving them back to where you keep them. Do not let the plants sit covered in foam for too long and wash it off while it's still a thick foam. You don't want too much of that to leak into your growth medium (but a bit of it should be fine).

And that's it. You'd have washed off most of the spider mites because liquid soaps are also "surfactants" i.e. they make the water less viscous which will make it reach into the crevasses it otherwise wouldn't and make the surfaces too slippery for insects to cling to. Your plants will now also be covered with a very thin film of KOH-based solution (Potassium is lethal to soft-bodied insects). It will kill both adult spider mites as well as their tiny eggs they deposit underneath the leaves. And the surface of your plants will be too bitter for pests to feed on for a minimum of a week after you've applied the foam, possibly longer. But do inspect your plants on occasion for mite damage and see if you have to apply the soapy foam again. Other, larger insects such as moths, bees and beetles visiting your plants can, involuntarily, carry stowaway spider mites on their bodies back onto your plants as they collected the mites from other plants they visit.

Obviously, this should only be done on plants that you don't intend to eat and/or before they start flowering and developing edible fruits, but your plants should tolerate this treatment well, even seedlings of soft-leaved plants (e.g. pepper, tomato, eggplant,...). I produced so many viable seedlings this year, despite spider mite infestation I was fighting using this simple method of pest control I had to literally beg neighbors to take my seedlings so I won't have to discard them. Happy gardening!

#gardening #seedings #houseplants #pestcontrol #spidermites

Maculata madness!!

Angel wings are so pretty and perfect for that bokeh effect 😍🟣🔴⚪️
(I may have gone a bit overboard)

Moment macro lens /📱14PM
Full album: https://tinyurl.com/2p8k3zh2

#Plants #HousePlants #spring #begonias #maculata #pink #angelwings #macro #MacroPhotography #MacroMarch
@plants @nature