out of control. . . .
davez7anv
4 years ago
this persicaria definitely needs some discipline
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peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
4 years ago
Nevermore44 - 6a
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zinnias -epic fail but out of control seed mania takes hold.
Comments (35)Yes, Kevin - that is exactly what they are - a piece of land we can either rent from the municiple council or a private landowner. Allotments have a long tradition in the UK - at one time there were over 1000,000 plots in use but this has dwindled (due to selling off for development and such) to about a third of this total. If you have no garden or a tiny one, renting an allotment (not easy since there are currently long, long waiting lists) an allotment is a great way of growing vegetables (what they were mainly designed for) or flowers or , depending on the rules of your allotments, anything from keeping hens to growing roses. Mostly, they are a regulated size (measured in arcane ancient terms such as rods, poles or perches) and are usually about 300 square metres (10 rods). I have had mine for 10 years now so it is getting to be a nice mature space (or it would be if I didn't muck about so much)....See MoreThrips out of controll!
Comments (25)Thrips invaded my house in Pennsylvania the Sunday after Thanksgiving. It's now January 15th and I've finally had 2 days free of them. I use peppermint essential oil to keep them off me. Off and deet are useless. The ones I killed have been identified as idolothripinae. Native to the Philippines and SE Asia. We buy things from wal mart or online that comes from China, well now their Thrips and Mites are here. And they are very aggressive. I own no plants and it's taken me all of 6 weeks to get to this point. They disappeared for a week or so around Christmas but that is when the Mites, spider and bird were most prevalent. I know that it was warm after Thanksgiving and had a wood stove going to get the chill out of the air. Well it got a little too hot and I stupidly turned on an AC unit. Just for a few mins I thought. I vividly remember seeing what looked like a whisp of smoke float by as I watched football. I smoke, but looked at my ashtray and thought, that's weird, I put that out ten minutes ago. That "whisp" was their eggs. By morning it was already too late. Within a week they had gotten into everything and were crawling "all" over me. Biting, trying to get into my eyes. The mites came about a week later. Craziest thing I've ever experienced. I having no plant knowledge had to find answers and fast as everything on the Internet said they were harmless, and did not bite. Lol. Not only did they bite, 3 eventually got into my eyes. I would have to deal with at least 50 a day trying. They would also spray eggs as they fly by. More than once I'd look down only to see their eggs and fluid across my shirt. They also are very vindictive. Once a couple weeks back after they resurfaced the 2nd time I found they had made a huge nest in a small crevice between cabinets. I sprayed them and killed them with a sulfur h202 and vinegar mixture (figured that one out. Kills them and their eggs all in one.). That night I was about to fall asleep, and thought I saw the whisps. I drifted in and out of sleep. I suddenly felt an urge to get up. I started to sit up and noticed a small batch of eggs just to the left of me on my comforter. When. I sat up completely to my shock they had laid eggs all around my head. On the pillow and comforter. They are some real sons a B's. But now I am adept at handling them, and getting them out of my clothes, since they would nest in my dryers door gasket. Also the were in my vehicle and would hatch when I turned the heater on. Even worse is they would hatch from what looked like perfectly clean clothing I just took out of the dryer while I was at work. Adding some sulfur powder to the laundry fixed that. The car is being helped as we speak with a cold spell we are getting here. Temp has been below freezing for 2 days. 3 or more should wipe them out. So I turned the heat on full blast on the way to work, so that they hatch only to be stuck in freezing temps for 10 hrs while I work. It's been quite the ordeal. But I've learned the internet hides what these things have evolved to. Not to mention the article in 2020 talking of how the military has started using them for farming purposes to inject plants with whatever. Basically story goes they could stop a plague of locusts by unleashing them and other aphids ahead of the locusts, as they eat the crops they are injecting a chemical to stop the locust and whala no plague. The reality is it's a kick ass bio weapon. At any rate if anyone ends up in a situation like mine, here is what I've learned. H202 kills their eggs. Vinegar kills the insect. Combining the peroxide and vinegar creates paracitic acid. Be careful, it will burn some if left on skin. But it really decimates them. Then using wettable sulfur will kill adults as well as repel if sprayed about your home or yard. Peppermint oil alone is the best repellant if they are aggressive and biting. Air diffusers that you can use essential oils with also help keep them at bay but they won't keep them away if they are hellbent. They killed themselves killing my 1st diffuser. Then the ones that didn't die laid eggs all over the interior of the thing. Was pissed but admired their resolve. At any rate hope this helps someone. Lord knows how desperate I was when this became my life for the last several weeks. I pray this last bout was the end of it. I am moving from this place in a few weeks. But they say it only takes 1 female which can lay 10000 eggs, and the party starts all over again. Good luck....See MoreFicus Audrey growing out of control. can i stunt growth of branch now?
Comments (2)It's hard to make suggestions re what to do w/o knowing where you live. If you want to make a plant look stunted, the best way to go about it is by keeping it always in a high state of vitality so it grows a lot, and do your "stunting" manually. Keeping a plant horribly rootbound limits branch extension and forces tighter internodes (less space between leaves), but it also limits vitality and the plant's ability to defend itself against pathogens and insect herbivory. Growth is measured by an increase in the plant's dry mass. When your tree isn't growing, it's dying, so the closer you get to stagnant growth (when a plant should be growing) the unhealthier the tree becomes. Note the list of how a plant orders its use of energy. It first goes to it's strongest sink, which is respiratory maintenance (maintenance of all its living parts), followed in order by production of fine roots, followed by flower/ seed/ fruit production, the primary growth (extension of both roots and shoots), then secondary growth (thickening), and finally, the synthesis of defensive chemicals. So stress first affects a plant's ability to defend itself - not the right path to keeping a plant small. Bonsai live in small pots (relative to plant size) and are kept compact, often for centuries, yet they are some of the healthiest plants in pots. This they owe to their care givers' attention to regular root work and regular/ judicious pruning. What I'm driving at is you need to prune it; however, where you live has much to do with HOW you prune it; reason being, you want to do a hard prune in late spring to provide a framework to build on. What the tree puts on in terms of growth in summer will be desirable and something to be kept as a part of the end composition. Growth but on late fall through early spring will be long (in internodes) and lanky, so, undesirable. If you live in the N Hemisphere, you should partially prune now and prune back hard in late spring, as measured by the calendar. Overview of Good Growing Practices Growing Ficus in Containers Long Term Care of Trees in Containers Al...See MoreOut-of-control bush and pruning
Comments (11)It's pretty hard to do any permanent damage when pruning a rose. I have cut back climbers to almost ground level and they have just come back all the more stronger for it. Having said that, I would not recommend growing a climber in a container unless a very generously sized one.....like a half whiskey barrel. Plants that grow significant topgrowth - like climbing roses - also generate significantly large root systems. A too small container will adversely affect growth and flowering. Here's what I'd do: remove all but the 5 (or so) largest and most robust canes. Get rid of everything else. head back the remaining canes to a manageable height repot into an appropriately sized container with the proper soil media. Since the plant is growing in a container in potting mix, routine fertilizing for best performance is necessary. Weekly, weakly with a full range water soluble liquid fertilizer. Or use a slow release product like Osmocote after repotting. provide some sort of support for the climber. Unless those major canes are trained more or less horizontally, the flowering laterals will not develop properly. No laterals = no (or very few) flowers. Finally, it is important to remember that growing any plant in a container is vastly different from growing that same plant in the ground and different principles/methods need to be applied to expect the same level of success....See Moreperen.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoThis is mine, a 3 year old plant started from a gifted sucker/seedling. I will be elated when it gets out of control like yours does! :)
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4 years agoI am a female in my sixties, pretty healthy, but not in the greatest shape. I do NOT jump on shovels. I put one foot on the top and push. There are two brilliant things to the Root Slayer. First, the bottom is v- shaped, so the (sharp) shovel doesn’t slip off a root, but centres on it. Then there are the saw teeth at the side. There was no way I could get straight through the ninebark‘s roots, but once I was in a bit to the outside, I could go around, and where I got a lot of resistance, I just went sideways by inches, till I was through the rough patch. For the grass, I had cut it down, and with a bit of prying around, I could easily find spots where the shovel just slid in. I had tried to cut up the grass the year before with a new, good quality shovel, and I could not even get a piece off the outside.
Here are the pieces I divided the grass into. I didn’t take a before picture, alas.
The ninebark three years ago, blooming right in the middle of the picture. It only got bigger after that.
The ninebark slain. There are a lot more branches hidden underneath.
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