This made me have to
think a bit as some OCs aren’t entirely clear to me what they would be into;
Terra
Short/Mid
distance races, arm wrestling, kickboxing / mixed martial arts, Volleyball. She likes a good mix of brawn and agility/speed for her athletic fun.
Harriet
Swimming races
(idk which kind… maybe freestyle??), free diving, Dance sports (initially
thought ballet but now I’m not so sure… either way a dance sport with a lot of
spins and exaggerated movement would be her taste), theater/acting (neither a
game or sport- but still). Harriet loves water but she also loves to show off and stroke her ego as the center of attention.
Demauria
Archery,
possibly clay pigeon shooting (some kind of shooting sport that needs
speed/precision at least), parkour(??? I’m surprised at this thought but ok
sure), fencing, possibly Hockey. Demauria can be a bit brutish but she likes accuracy for the most part. While I’m still going “???” at parkour, I could see her being into it more than Terra; in comparison to Dema, Terra much prefers her feet firmly on the ground.
Riivar
Tango dancing (obviously),
theater/acting, singing/karaoke, card games (as to what specific ones I’m not
sure… but the kind that use a basic standard card deck). She likes Style™ and definitely enjoys putting her lungs to use. I’ve always imagined Riivar as a bit of a clever character, so games reflecting that I think would suit her.
Anne
Strength Athletics, arm wrestling and/or maybe wrestling (? Canon Anne would probably be interested but I’m not as
sure that AU Annes’ would be into it). It’s surprisingly hard for me to think
of any games/sports that’d be her taste… and cooking/baking doesn’t really
count as either. Anne is capable of much brawn, but she’s quite brainy too, so I think it’d take me a bit to figure out something that would reflect both characteristics to tickle her fancy?
Kayla
she doesn’t like
to do sports, though she is capable of weightlifting despite her appearance (I doubt that goes beyond Canon Kayla though. I imagine most AU Kaylas tend to be average if not the least bit athletic, and hence not liking the sports even more). She’d be probably into most kids games as well as basic board games
(ex- red rover, red light, hide and go seek, checkers, tic tac toe), perhaps even video games for AU Kaylas (most group-based games like Mario Kart, Smash Bros, as well as maybe dating games and games like Harvest Moon). Kayla while able to appreciate skill-based sports she doesn’t really like participating in such sports, and I see her as being one who just wants to have fun and has trouble doing that with skillsports.
For other OCs like Abby, Lily, or Laurel I have currently no idea.
Weirdly worded… not to say I wouldn’t like to (as I definitely could share Hoya carnosa as its the one succulent that’s been thriving and could use a trim-to-size, and schlumbergera and Crassul ovata once they’re back in proper size health and shape, which may take far longer) but main problems right now would be;
– I’m Canadian, so if you live anywhere outside of Canada the border control will not allow plant material to cross the border via mail. I’m lucky when I can even give/receive seeds accross the border.
– The fact it’s November and freezing cold and anything sent in the mail would be a dead plantcicle at some point before finally arriving to you.
So I would if I could but as it is now now I can’t.
I must confess that this question often stumps me whenever I get it. Not cause there aren’t any other gardening/plant/nature ish blogs, but because there’re so many, I hate to forget other bloggers (which are a lot, and there are a lot of new ones this past year that still haven’t stuck to my memorybank yet), and also some of the bloggers that still stick to my memory have long come and gone and are technically inactive/out-of-action for the past few years.
That’s not even factoring in that there are so many kinds both in location as well as blogging/gardening style; the diversity is amazing but also daunting.
[EDITOR’S NOTE- despite the list that I’ve made, I HIGHLY recommend you search the #plantblr and #gardeners of tumblr / #gardeners on tumblr tags, a lot of active gardening bloggers use those tags- unless that’s changed since the last time I’ve browsed those tags personally]
Rambling aside, I’ll try to do just what you asked; recommending plant/gardening blogs. My apologies my fellow gardening mutuals if somehow you slip the list (I am but a very forgetful airhead), mention yourselves onto this post if you wish, and we can hopefully use that to get you in view despite me not writing you down here.
I’d add a lot more but since I’ve gotten halfway through this list tumblr’s been freezing up on me sooooo this’ll have to do for your list of ones to check out.
My pictorial memory, especially for things I like such as plants/flowers. It’s what gives me the edge on remembering for plant ID even if the name somehow slips my memory.
Not sure for the word for this one… but I guess when I’m Determined/Stubborn/Obsessive about certain tasks/things? It has its drawbacks, but those days where mass-read books like a kid on candy, or those days where I’d lock on a drawing idea and make a huge complex piece? I wouldn’t change a thing on those moments~
I guess I like how I try to design my OCs wth different body types/looks etc.. Can’t say I always do it successfully but hey that’s the process of self-improvement.
Sometimes how I’m able to pick up/move stupidly big/heavy things??? I probably shouldn’t with how out of shape I am but farmlife don’t care. Like, I had to move some big metal-and-wood barn doors (the BIG, tractor-sized ones) last week and while it WAS a struggle, I was one of the three of us able to move it a decent bit with a good pre-prep huff and puff of breath lol.
My agility? (do I have agility, I assume I do with the evidence) Very good for dividing groups of cattle when trying to separate the ill ones for medications. And apparently my agility is well known enough that a High School classmate that knew me from only one class remembered me not just for my height but for the fact I could traverse through the full hallways like a bullet (which btw the key is to take advantage of the crowd gaps to bob and weave through).
Wow I’m actually surprised that I didn’t do any repeats for this one with the last time I did this (at least, I think). Now for the equally hard part; tagging people with this.
I DIDN’T FORGET THIS ASK FOR THE PLANTBLR NUMBER THING, IVE JUST BEEN STUMPED FOR SEVERAL MONTHS TRYING TO THINK OF SOME GOOD ANSWERS IM SO SORRY!!! I still don’t have good answers for these two questions but I’m gonna force answers outta myself anyways.
5. A plant you share an interesting story with?
I have pondered on this a lot as to how to interpret this question for the most interesting answer; my struggle with Musa/Ensente, my opportunity to try to grow Asmina from seed for the first time leading to my obsession to continue seaching, tulips in bloom relative to my birth. After a lot of think, I settled to go for my currently-oldest houseplant, my senior of the collection who has endured some abuse and was the start of my explosion of houseplants;
My good old Crassula ovata Jade Plant.
I think this is the oldest picture of it but I’m not sure as I was searching through the blog for these pics and this one did not have my old-style “photographed on this day” note. Originally called “Jadey” by me back then, it was an apartment warming gift from my former highschool EA teachers, and the houseplant that pushed me to considering indoor cultivation more (before this fella I had many plant deaths on my hands including bromeliads, Pepperomias, and particularly African Violets).
Anyone who knows this plant will know; Jade plants are very trouble-free so long as they get tons of sunlight and are not overwatered, and this girl was no exception to the rule; It has been the one houseplant that shrugged off my leaving for holidays and even enduring the Neglectathon when the plant collection and I returned to the farm for permanent residence- but I’m getting ahead of myself. During college it thrived, to the point it got pruned, propagated and shared throughout the Horticulture Tech Class (I may have even given some to @omgplants but I genuinely cannot remember).
The damaged plant material was cut off with a knife (which was over half of the bottom trunk) and given an application of Cinnamon as an attempt at anitfungal protection.
From there any posts for it specifically never really popped up, however it did get odd cameos in group plant pictures/posts to further the documentation of its journey;
From there was when the great plant dying (ie- the winter colds triggering the slow death of the African Violets) followed by neglectathon began. As I grew doom-and-gloom with my own mind and trying to resettle in space that was shared rather than mine and mine alone, plants were forgotten to be tended to (mainly watered, they were watered scarcely if at all) as they were scattered across the different small windows of the house (unlike the apartment where I only had two windows which I walked by every day, the farmhouse had windows in very out-of-the-way spaces) and even the toughest of houseplants started to struggle even more.
By 2017 the house addition mom so wished for this farmhouse was being put together and a call of opportunity, a second chance; among the features of the addition, large south facing windows to almost rival even the apartments of London. My bedroom was moved to the new basement floor to give me more freedom and space, the plants too would get a similar treatment. While in none of the photos, the Jade was part of great houseplant bathtub soak and relocation. Given more light and a little more water (to this current time of this ask I am still fighting to return semblance in my life/routines again, watering being one I still struggle to reclaim for the houseplants) it thickened with water and grew a little better, but started to lean out of its pot and still showed severe leggieness (curing legginess requires more than a change of light, it also means they need to be pruned, something I felt it would not tolerate after the neglectathon ordeal). It is one of the few “leggy succulents” left in the collection.
This autumn of 2018 old Jadey got to cameo in a tweet with other houseplants once again (tumblr mobile makes photosets not as easy as twitter so my apologies for no updates on that here yet). After far too long, she has finally gotten the repot she so painfully needed, and a light trim to begin fixing her wiriness and reshape. Currently her rootball is almost nonexistent (ripped apart to give her a chance in fresher, albeit peatier potting soil) and needs to regrow her roots, as well as branch/bulk up her branches. A tradeoff currently is that she has been exiled from the plant-shelf spaces due to her height and being in a fragile clay flowerpot, but I’m hoping she’ll continue to live on with her houseplant juniors and continue holding the trophy for oldest owned houseplant.
53. Favourite flower?
Always a question that I can never answer with just one flower.
My default answer has always been a tie of 4 plant genera; Trilliums, Liliums, Lavendula, and Dianthus.
Since the new garden additions and struggle to grow certain favourite species (the first two in particular) new plants/flowers may come to soon wear the rivalry crown of “favorite”; New England Asters are becoming my favourite autumn queens while Northern Wild (Senna hebecarpa) has come to impress me for its bee-attracting qualities and mildly exotic charm in the midsummer.
Hmm, I think such a spreadsheet you speak of would almost work better for my stock plant / garden plant documentations (since I plan to propagate from stock plants in the future term). It’d definitely be nice though as not all flowers bloom at the same time of year for every gardener depending on location on the globe etc.. So having that for more localized marketing appeal would be pretty nice.
On the other hand I could just write such things down in the Additional Notes part or something lol
Depending on the species of succulent they can be hit and miss with cutting propagation success. Rot can be killer of youngly rooting/rooted cuttings. If the rot has already begun in major areas the best you can do is abandon ship and restart with rot-free cuttings (if there’s enough plant material you can definitely just recut and use what you already have). To prevent rot in a succulent cutting (this does not apply to non succulents like impatiens and coleus) the best you can do is mark sure its being grown/rooted somewhere warm, and that the moisture levels are kept more on the dry side than the wet side (so do water, but do so sparingly).
Not enough moisture is another possible candidate but less likely, and not enough sunlight could be a likely candidate too but it all depends on how the plant is dying.
My apologies if my answer sounds/feels vague, it can be like grasping straws when there’s no visual context to go with the information for plant pathology.
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