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I've been growing plants for the last year and a half or so (covid y'know) and it's really enjoyable and fulfilling, I highly recommend it. Among other things
by carapace 5y ago
I've been growing plants for the last year and a half or so (covid y'know) and it's really enjoyable and fulfilling, I highly recommend it.
Among other things I've got five little macadamia trees, three Torrey pine trees, two carob trees that just sprouted, and a sequoiadendron giganteum seedling about an inch tall. (It's funny to me that the Giant Sequoia seeds are tiny, smaller than a grain of rice, yet the tree grows to be so huge.)
It's fun and fascinating to watch them sprout and grow.
(FWIW, I really like J.L. Hudson for seeds: https://jlhudsonseeds.net/index.html https://jlhudsonseeds.net/index.html They have all kinds of plants from all over the world, really good prices and quality, and I like their attitude.)
- ornornor 5y agoI find it incredibly frustrating. Some plants will die right away so at least it’s a fast failure. But others will be ok for quite a while, several months or even a year or two. And then they’ll start yellowing, losing leaves, whatever, and eventually die. Even plants that are supposedly hardy, like ivy. I absolutely hate growing plants, and it actually makes me angry to see them fail. Even though I love an interior with plants, I’m actually feeling better if I never tried to have the plant than if I did and it inevitably dies. Luckily, I live in nature and can open the windows instead, my surroundings being a forest.
- tyjaksn 5y agoThe yellowing leaves suggest you might be watering the plants too much. This seems to be among the more common issues with houseplants.
- carapace 5y agoI'm not an expert but to me this suggests at least two possibilities: 1) Were you feeding them at all? Maybe they were just running out of nutrients. 2) Something environmental in your area, bad water or radon or something.