|
Post by Poofiemus on Apr 22, 2007 2:39:58 GMT -5
I think the best transplatting time differs by plant, unfortunately. Google can probably help you though! Behold the magic of The Goog! You guys are making me hungry. I want artichokes now. I love them. I love them GOOD.
|
|
|
Post by Venomeye on Apr 22, 2007 4:52:41 GMT -5
I have two well grown jalapeno bushes in a small pot with a cactus in the center (I know, strange combination), and I have picked fruits from it twice so far, and this time the harvest was much bigger. Though it's strange that part of their stems died before you could fully grow!
Says to transplant when they're 2 inches tall (banana peppers), so I'm not there yet. Then it says to put them outside after a while. No way am I doing that, because everytime I've ever done something like that, it has ALWAYS died. Thanks to Arizona heat. Even when I built a big shade so they aren't getting nuked all day, they didn't last. I am going to have an entire plant farm in my house.
|
|
|
Post by Poofiemus on Apr 22, 2007 13:08:53 GMT -5
I don't see it as too strange a combination, though it is potentially dangerous.
Yeah, it's hard to grow things here. My mom is very picky about what she plants so it has the greatest chance of not only surviving but of looking good. They have to be evergreens, need very little water, and be for full sun. She's gotten good at identifying this just from the tags.
|
|
|
Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 22, 2007 15:58:34 GMT -5
I'm only growing chives. I have a few houseplants people have handed off to me, but I don't even know what kind they are. Horticulture is not one of my strong points.
|
|
|
Post by Venomeye on Apr 22, 2007 16:55:52 GMT -5
The only thing that I like growing are Peppers and the like, I guess I'm weird like that. No other kind of plants or the non-fruit bearing kind. Except for a few cacti, I used to have four, but down to one.
One of my jalapenos over matured, so I cut it off today and opened it (I always do that to collect the seeds) and I found out there were no seeds in it. I was kinda upset but was also confused, how does that happen??
|
|
|
Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 22, 2007 17:46:36 GMT -5
It's a mutant zombie jalapeno! RUN!!!!!!
I used to have cacti. Some friends gave me some for my birthday. They'd named them Bob and Sam. Bob was rotund and bulbous, Sam was long and shapely. The dog ate them.
|
|
|
Post by Poofiemus on Apr 22, 2007 19:32:26 GMT -5
@_@ Your poor dog! How did he fare with the spines?
Bob and Sam. *snort giggle snack snicker* I don't know why, but I find that funny. I think paper writing broke my brain.
|
|
|
Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 22, 2007 21:41:37 GMT -5
He did fine. He must have a digestive system of cast iron. The first year I had him, he was kept in a kennel in the living room while everyone was out all day. I came home from school one day to discover he'd chewed a soupbowl sized hole in the wall behind the kennel before breaking out. He got into the garbage, of course, and spread it throughout the house. My mom had Christmas lights on the floor, several strings of the large C9 glass bulbs fastened to plastic tracks. From the plug ends we found, he'd eaten three sets: tracks, bulbs, sockets, wire, everything. No ill effects whatsoever, either. I was outside with him, monitoring his "movements," and apart from twisted bits of wire and colored glass, he was fine! No bleeding or anything! I have no idea how he does it.
As for Bob and Sam, it is rather amusing. I still snicker over it, and they were eaten six or seven years ago.
|
|
|
Post by Venomeye on Apr 22, 2007 21:49:11 GMT -5
CRAZY dog, it must be a super dog. How does that happen? You could probably feed him a sword and nothing bad would happen.
Those are funny names for the cacti, which reminds me of the ones I had. The set was called "cactus people" and they had various things glued to them. They all had sets of eyes and a few had a top hat, it was hilarious!
|
|
|
Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 22, 2007 21:54:48 GMT -5
Well, if I did that, I wouldn't have a sword anymore. ((Desperately wants a sword, although current temptations to misuse it are overwhelming))
My cacti were just plain little spikey plants with no features. Apparently they were tasty, though.
|
|
|
Post by Poofiemus on Apr 23, 2007 0:04:41 GMT -5
>.< See, I live in a very touristy part of AZ, and am actually tired of seeing the decorated cacti, the kokopellis, and hearing people mispronounce "saguaro." But like I said, I've kind of gotten OD'd on it all; they even have severly kitchy tourist goodies in the grocery stores and other place where residents are probably the most common customers. It's a little disturbing.
Ah, having a sword would be so awesome. I'd want to learn how to use one first, though.
|
|
|
Post by Venomeye on Apr 23, 2007 10:11:06 GMT -5
You wouldn't believe how many old people are moving to Arizona to retire....
Oh oh! I have my own sword, though it has been purposely dulled a little, it's still very pointy. It's two handed and weighs quite a bit, it's hanging on the wall on it's (doesn't know what it's called) wood design thing. It's probably about four and a half feet long or so.
|
|
|
Post by Poofiemus on Apr 23, 2007 12:05:30 GMT -5
I would believe it, but then again my town is both the tourist magnet and the old people magnet.
You have a SWORD? I'm jealous! Sooooo coooooool.
|
|
|
Post by Venomeye on Apr 23, 2007 12:48:03 GMT -5
Yep! I've had it for about 6 months now or so, and it's got some pretty cool designs on the handle. The sword's name is "Scorpion king", and it's got this Pharaoh looking skull in the center.and is also responsible for a verticle slit in my ceiling. Stupid me.
|
|
|
Post by Poofiemus on Apr 23, 2007 13:44:23 GMT -5
And you thought naming flutes was wierd.
It sounds awesome! And hey, don't consider it a hole--consider it a battle scar! *bricked*
|
|