Deltarune’s colour palettes/style sparked the mood for a new OC AU; Knight/Bard AU? Terra is a Cursed Knight out for a cure and vengeance, while Harriet is a flirtatious fishwoman bard following along and helping best she can on the way.
They may or may not fall for each other in this AU.
I have a random question! Maybe someone who has a little bit more experience with growing trees could help. I have a friend who has Excelsa cedars, and they are wondering what the best way to fertilize them would be (they are mulched and in pots). They want them to grow really well, and I honestly don’t know too much about growing trees. I told them manure might be the way to go, but if anyone has any tips at all, that would be great. They want to use them as a hedge eventually once they are big and strong enough!
Thanks!
little late for the answering party but; compost/manure can be a good way to go, though in general slow-release granular fertilizers will do (in spring/summer though, not now or in autumn it’d just cause them stress).
There’s evergreen specialized fertilizers sold but I think in general you could get away with any standard granular fertilizer so long as its a 50-50-50 balance blend imo.
Also if they become rootbound at any point of their development before planting they should have their roots cut/pruned, as all the kinks in the roots will do is slow development/health of well beyond their establishment phase.
I had to put him in the warmest, sunniest window in the house cause he got overwatered so some of the flowers got too dry i think, but some are on their way to bloom!!
Well, well, well, looks like I won’t have to buy a new red flowered Schlumbergera truncata hybrid after all; two of my seedlings from several years ago (conceived in a schlumbergera pollination tutorial) inherited their dead parent’s red colouration. When I saw the initial bud colour development I honestly thought they’d be pink flowered, what a pleasant surprise to be proven wrong.
So today I went on a little trip to a local botanical garden with a guide so I have some interesting things to show u all. First some pictures from the various greenhouses.
The first one intrigued me because it’s a marble queen, so a varietion of my pothos. Its leaves are so much bigger because of it being grown in a greenhouse. Also look at all the cute cacti!!
Here’s a couple of treasures I’ve picked up from the ground, such as the ginkgo leaf, a black pine pinecone, a ball of cotton, two acorns I found near a red oak, but they don’t look like a red oaks acorns at all (to be fair there was a lot trees there) and an european bladdernuts seed capsule. I’m propably going to try to plant the black pine and the bladdernut. 😀
Second specimen to start flowering; the pink Schlumbergera truncata hybrid. (Wish the photo quality was better on the first photo).
Smaller flowers than the other cultivars I own, it is nonetheless a charmer.
First of the Schlumbergeras to open up a flower! A nice white truncata hybrid, the cold in the farmhouse is causing its petals to develop a light pink blush 💕
These flowers were enduring well into the early November snow and cold. I have a feeling they are now asleep in the ground with the other perennials.
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