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Found the weird 'knuckle' on my plant. Okanangan Grape 'extra' and scraped the brown stuff off. Looks like healthy stem underneath.
Think I'm turning into a Nervous Nelly. LOL
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The cool little sciency thing that's really easy to do if you have an insta pot or a pressure cooker, is you can order a few Petri dishes and some potato agar. Very cheap. And just mix some up, fill the dishes. And sterilize em in the insta/pc.Found the weird 'knuckle' on my plant. Okanangan Grape 'extra' and scraped the brown stuff off. Looks like healthy stem underneath.
Think I'm turning into a Nervous Nelly. LOL
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Make sure that depends is dry and emptyLet me put some Metamucil in it first!
Yep i did the same this a.m. watering & ferts. It's hard to say @cpurola how long i have to go with these poor autos LOL. It's not gonna happen anytime soon from the way they look. Your place is still so lush & green mine is drying up bad. All except my garden beds. I've only had this place going on 3rd yr. Little by little yards are taking shape with my bushes, trees. My youngest daughter she's now in her 40's came by for 2days and her friend came with her with their dog. They painted 2 ugly walls in my garage boy am i happy with it. So much brighter an clean. I just gave the 2 doggies a bath and i'm pooped LOL.Ferts for the porch autos
2 gallons well water
1t Recharge
1t Megacrop
Doesn't take alot to tire us out anymore. Hubby and I have a pact, work 2-3 hrs. a day. Even if it means knocking off at 2 PM! LOLYep i did the same this a.m. watering & ferts. It's hard to say @cpurola how long i have to go with these poor autos LOL. It's not gonna happen anytime soon from the way they look. Your place is still so lush & green mine is drying up bad. All except my garden beds. I've only had this place going on 3rd yr. Little by little yards are taking shape with my bushes, trees. My youngest daughter she's now in her 40's came by for 2days and her friend came with her with their dog. They painted 2 ugly walls in my garage boy am i happy with it. So much brighter an clean. I just gave the 2 doggies a bath and i'm pooped LOL.
Thanks for the compliment! I was hoping the zinnias would grow tall like State Fair ones but no, not this year. I planted the wrong variety.My volunteer tomatoes are always my strongest plants. I never cull any of them anymore. 3 growing out of the compost right now. I need to get in there today. May have to relocate them. I already have 20 some tomato plants.
Your gardens are beautiful. Snapdragons are some of my favorites. When they dry, I love the little skulls the seed pods turn into. Worst year for those disgusting earwigs I've seen yet. My zinnias our front are trashed from them. I may try the oil/soy sauce trap for them.
I usually do feminized if i have a choice but if not then reg Beans usually you can read sex about 2 months inI personally wouldn't do regs outside unless I sexed them. I wasted my time last year on a plant. Never again
Have you seen any active culprits of those eaten leaves while at the plants? im just curious lol.Doesn't take alot to tire us out anymore. Hubby and I have a pact, work 2-3 hrs. a day. Even if it means knocking off at 2 PM! LOL
My two oldest are far away and don't visit often. We've resorted to hiring people or not doing things we need help with.
Hubby wants to insulate our detached garage, a few (too many) years ago we would have done it ourselves, but now....
My early flowering photos don't look so good. Two of them had bud rot that I cut out, but I can't bring myself to get rid of them. So cute.
The autos are being eatened by something, I think at night. They're still growing fast and starting to flower.
Early Flowering Photos (camera didn't pick up on the purple)
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Porch Autos:
GDP
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Eaten leaves
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Looks like snail damage.Doesn't take alot to tire us out anymore. Hubby and I have a pact, work 2-3 hrs. a day. Even if it means knocking off at 2 PM! LOL
My two oldest are far away and don't visit often. We've resorted to hiring people or not doing things we need help with.
Hubby wants to insulate our detached garage, a few (too many) years ago we would have done it ourselves, but now....
My early flowering photos don't look so good. Two of them had bud rot that I cut out, but I can't bring myself to get rid of them. So cute.
The autos are being eatened by something, I think at night. They're still growing fast and starting to flower.
Early Flowering Photos (camera didn't pick up on the purple)
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Porch Autos:
GDP
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Eaten leaves
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We do have slugs but they usually eat the tender seedlings.Looks like snail damage.
Not sure if it does work on them or not,We do have slugs but they usually eat the tender seedlings.
I believe it's Japanese Beetles during the day and Asiatic Beetles and earwigs at night. THEY eat EVERYTHING.
Basil was one of their favorite plants and I grew them last year as a trap crop. Sorta worked.
Forgot about them in the excitement of planting and didn't plant it this year.
Need to read my notes better.
Yea it does, but it doesnt have slime trails, thats how i figured out it was earwigs causing my "snail" damage. It genuinely looks identical to snail damage, just without slime trails left behind.Looks like snail damage.
Nope. Do you have a lawn there? If so, they're the white grubs who love to eat grass roots. If not, no problem.Not sure if it does work on them or not,
Marigolds?
Got a volunteer tomato plant. Think I'll let it go and see what it turns out to be.
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I planted taller sunflowers in front of a row my zinnias that I had marked as short sunflowers. Those aren't getting eaten up as badly as the ones in the front of the bed. Makes me wonder what is off in the food chain to have such an abundance of those nasty things.Thanks for the compliment! I was hoping the zinnias would grow tall like State Fair ones but no, not this year. I planted the wrong variety.
Good luck with the traps. I bought some butterfly nets (kid size) and will try and catch whatever is on my plants. Standing and balancing on the landscape blocks while trying to catch a bug is a recipe for disaster! (fell backwards last year but my poor Auto cannabis plant cushioned my fall and lost it's main stem halfway up)
20 tomato plants plus? I did that once upon a time ago. I had a huge vegetable garden, all colors, shapes, had to try all and it was a blast.
Kids moved away, allergies got worse and I stopped. Except for the tomatoes. This year I have two Super Sweet cherries, two Black Krim, 2 Cherokee Purple, 4 salad in the flower beds.
Let me know if the trap works.
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