tlongstretch

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hey my comment showed up, and humans are here!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My wife gets upset when I water her succulents, she says she is training them to be air plants

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Always be willing to walk away, or you are working for free for somebody else's profit. If it isn't fun, quit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah its weird that people keep talking about "Reddit's content" when they haven't created shit. At least Slashdot has always said "These comments are owned by whoever wrote them"

Not that slashdot hasn't become crap, but it's something.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

"Nobody goes there anymore, its too crowded."

Really, though. What's the point of contributing to a thread that already has hundreds of top level posts. Something new and fresh is worth a try.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not in the peach tree, luckily, but there are a million birds & nests in the bushes around my house. I live in the home town of John James Audubon.

Robin are outstandingly successful gatherers, no wonder there are so many of them. My wife and I can see a nest from our living room window, and the parents make trips every 5min or so out to the yard and come back with giant mouthfuls of worms. I have no idea how they find the so quickly in the dry grass, but the babies get fat quick and are out on their own in no time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Creating sublemmies hangs forever it seems. I was able to create one on day one of the reckoning, but not anymore.

Also, I thought Lemmy was broken but for whatever reason it performs badly in Firefox but Chrome works okay. I don't like this because I hate Chrome/Google but it isn't clear what the issue is in Firefox. I have NoScript, Ublock, etc. there so likely plugins

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They are adorable. I have no idea what they eat at that size, hopefully they can eat the spider mites that are attacking my plants!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is that a honeybee?

 

This was from last spring. The robins have since grown up and have their own families now in "the big evergreen bush", while the peach tree is looking like a bumper crop this year!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This praying mantis must have just hatched. I leave my container trees outside during the warm months and always end up with a few mantis egg sacks, the babies emerge in the greenhouse in mid winter (its hot in greenhouse)

picture taken ~feb 2023

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

thanks the direct link worked perfectly, subscribed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • 'ZZ' plant
  • Snake Plant / mother-in-law-tongue plant
  • Dracaena(sp?)

I have had these growing indoors in poor light conditions, rarely watered, for YEARS and they do well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, thank you for mentioning this or I would not have realized what I was doing wrong

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

 

This in-ground grafted 'El Bumpo' tree is 3-4 years old and requires regular pruning to avoid hitting the greenhouse ceiling, but has yet to produce any fruitlets until now. Cherimoya unfortunately requires hand-pollination to set fruit, and even worse the flowers & pollen are only viable for a few hours... and I only even bother to try paintbrush pollination when I am already out there and see some fresh flowers.

If this fruit is not fantastic I'm digging this whole tree up and replacing with a Geffner atemoya I already have in a pot that is a better producer, without any hand pollination.

 

lemmy is broken today

 

You may have heard that cherimoyas require hand-pollination, as they are only naturally pollinated by some beetle that clearly does not exist in my greenhouse in Pennsylvania. Not only do they require hand pollination, but the flowers and pollen are only viable for half a day or so. I am pretty lazy and only half-ass pollinate when I happen to be out there, so for three years I have had hundreds of flowers but no fruit. For the first time this year my 'El Bumpo' has a fruitlet, it is about the size of my thumb now. I hope it holds, and it better taste AMAZING or I am digging it up and replacing with my Geffner atemoya that sets fruit just fine on its own.

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