I just noticed your clay statue in the recent photo with the Tibetan Wind Horses.
St Francis?
St Francis?
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Yes, it is St. Francis. Many years ago we went to Taos NM for a drive and when we passed through Santa Fe I saw the most beautiful hand carved granite St. Francis. It was 600 dollars and I thought that was too much, but now I wish I bought it. This one in my garden is broken. I found it in someone's garbage! I dumpster dive all the time, too. I found something in Walmart dumpster last week. I'll post it later...stay tuned.
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Hey GF
I said I'd put the pics up on Dennise's new thread. However as they are a little off topic I've put them here
on your new general gardening thread.
For all the millions of words written by members on this forum, as I said, I'm amazed at what a plant can do
even under the most arduous conditions. If you could explain this I'd be most impressed.
Here are some pics of various species growing on a 100 year old wall, probably constructed with lime mortar.
There is no earth or soil on the other side, its just a freestanding boundary wall.
NPK ? where does that come from ? Root structures ?
I said I'd put the pics up on Dennise's new thread. However as they are a little off topic I've put them here
on your new general gardening thread.
For all the millions of words written by members on this forum, as I said, I'm amazed at what a plant can do
even under the most arduous conditions. If you could explain this I'd be most impressed.
Here are some pics of various species growing on a 100 year old wall, probably constructed with lime mortar.
There is no earth or soil on the other side, its just a freestanding boundary wall.
NPK ? where does that come from ? Root structures ?
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Very nice. Okay, ferns grow from spores and when a spore lands on something like a brick, which is full of minerals and moisture, it will propagate! It really is incredible. I see this happening in places like New Orleans all the time. Ferns, epiphytes, and parasites thrive well in these conditions because their NPK requirements are low. As a matter of fact, there are an entire genre of plants which thrive based on how poor the soil it. Many agronomists use these plants as indicators to what is lacking in the soil.
That strappy tallish plant almost looks like a Guara, but I don't know where it is or if that plant is even naturally available. If you consider that one of the most fertile places on earth is Hawaii. It is made primarily from lava sand and other rock minerals. Lava sand has a paramagnetic ability to effect the cation exchange capacity of a plants root structure. Another phenomena of lava sand is that it has an incredible ability to maintain a level moisture content which provides plants with water, only the roots are like straws and via capillary action will uptake that moisture.
If you are fascinated by plants, I highly recommend a series with Sir David Attenborough. It is called Private Lives of Plants. Here is a link to a free site to watch, but it may not be the best HD quality. Search around. You will not be sorry you watched this entire series.
The Private Life of Plants : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
That strappy tallish plant almost looks like a Guara, but I don't know where it is or if that plant is even naturally available. If you consider that one of the most fertile places on earth is Hawaii. It is made primarily from lava sand and other rock minerals. Lava sand has a paramagnetic ability to effect the cation exchange capacity of a plants root structure. Another phenomena of lava sand is that it has an incredible ability to maintain a level moisture content which provides plants with water, only the roots are like straws and via capillary action will uptake that moisture.
If you are fascinated by plants, I highly recommend a series with Sir David Attenborough. It is called Private Lives of Plants. Here is a link to a free site to watch, but it may not be the best HD quality. Search around. You will not be sorry you watched this entire series.
The Private Life of Plants : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Just a great journal filled with so much information. You are a wealth of knowledge and experience! 
Just a great journal filled with so much information. You are a wealth of knowledge and experience!
Hear! Hear!
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Thank you GF,
A great well constructed answer. Thanks for the link also.
I hope other members found this interesting.
I'm just amazed that they can live with what would appear to be very little.
A great well constructed answer. Thanks for the link also.
I hope other members found this interesting.
I'm just amazed that they can live with what would appear to be very little.
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You should see some of the plants shown on that series I posted the link for. It is all in time capture and perfection. They go all over the world to explain how plants, like epiphytes survive in nature. How some plants only live on one cliff on one island in the Galapagos. Such incredible and mind boggling stuff. They talk about plant politics, and movement, even an aspect of intelligence potential. I think I'll get my DVDs out and watch them again. I do about once every year or so.
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Don't forget the occasional bird droppings...
Wonderful, the lengths plants go to in filling every possible niche. I just read about bacteria that live a mile and a half deep in solid rock. Take 10,000 years to grow enough to divide - been down there billions of years. Nature gives everything a try!
Nice to catch up here, GF, and look back through the photos - had to laugh at the last two of your wildlife post because I had a rabbit and a baby phoebe in my yard today
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Life is amazing folks. Live it well and with full intention. Here is my Little Free Library. It is temporary until I can build a proper one. There are a ton of plans online to build it, I just need Mark to cut all the pieces. Then I'll put it on a post and in the front around the big live oak where the library is, there will be some Adirondack chairs to sit. I'll have some solar lights for night. Neighbors passing by already are lookie loos.
And not really fully off topic, but here are some not great photos of the bunny eating my plant! I thought that was so cute. I am very tolerant of wildlife. If the rabbit ate the whole plant I would not get mad unless it made the rabbit sick.
And for fun, this phone booth...oh if it had ears!
BROOKLYN!
And not really fully off topic, but here are some not great photos of the bunny eating my plant! I thought that was so cute. I am very tolerant of wildlife. If the rabbit ate the whole plant I would not get mad unless it made the rabbit sick.
And for fun, this phone booth...oh if it had ears!
BROOKLYN!
Bunnies and phone booths - Excellent!!!
You put your free library on here and I find this today. He had to fight for it.
Update: 9 Year old KC Area Boy Wins, Little Libraries now Legal
Update: 9 Year old KC Area Boy Wins, Little Libraries now Legal
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He was my inspiration! And I just deleted a ten paragraph rant about politics. I know better.
Sorry about the politics, never even gave that a thought.
I wonder if I might impose on the cumulative knowledge of GF and her followers ...
I have a strange plant growing in my lawn. I've mowed lawns for 50 years and never run across this lil oddity in this climate. It's like a tiny creamy single-leaf cabbage. Anyone know what it is?
I have a strange plant growing in my lawn. I've mowed lawns for 50 years and never run across this lil oddity in this climate. It's like a tiny creamy single-leaf cabbage. Anyone know what it is?
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That white plant looks more like the fruiting body of a fungi than it looks like cabbage. Has there been a recent rainfall where it didn't dry for several days? Most fungi like this are totally harmless in the turf. They fruit and dry. When you break it in half, is it white clean through? If it is, it is probably a fruiting body.
Aha! I thought it should be a fungus - it has that sort of rubbery consistency that a mushroom has, and yes, I have a very organic lawn so there's plenty of good material to grow from, and it's been especially wet. The frilly leaf edges and the roots threw me off and I didn't see any sort of place for spores. I'm not a mushroom affiaciando.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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I am also not an aficionado, but I know a shroom when I see one! The spores are held within the tissue and are released when the plant dries up. They also may be under ground in the fungal mat where all the mycorrhizae live. Chances are, you have plenty of beneficial fungi in the soil if they are fruiting.
If you see a slimy thing, that is going to be slime mold. Generally it does not damage, but when I get that, I hose it into the ground with tap water from the spigot which has chlorine and amine. All the meens. Like shampoo has all the cones. Silicone, dimethicone, all the cones so I no longer use shampoo, only WEN.
I need something today. I am ON FIRE.
If you see a slimy thing, that is going to be slime mold. Generally it does not damage, but when I get that, I hose it into the ground with tap water from the spigot which has chlorine and amine. All the meens. Like shampoo has all the cones. Silicone, dimethicone, all the cones so I no longer use shampoo, only WEN.
I need something today. I am ON FIRE.
Gardenfaerie I have re posted a section from my grow journal so that you may keep the information in a place that you may easily find it.
I have used the General Hydroponics Flora series nutrient guide without issues but have reduced the nutrients accordingly due to using a LED light panel. There is a guide on the bottle and the website to guide you how much to use as what stage. There is usually a handout nutrient guide that is available at retailers as well.
All of the General Hydroponics products I have listed can be used in hydroponics, soil and soiless grow mediums. Always shake your nutrients before use. Always add the nutrients to water not to each other before water. I always start by adding Flora Micro, Flora Bloom, Flora Gro, Liquid KoolBloom and then Cal-Mag Plus for my flowering nutrients.
https://generalhydroponics.com nutrients flora series
https://generalhydroponics.com koolbloom
Here are General Hydroponics nutrient calculators
https://www.generalhydroponics.com calculator
General Hydroponics Flora Nutrient PPM Calculator
All of these products have already been used in this grow
https://www.perfectgardens.com general hydroponics flora gro gallon
https://www.perfectgardens.com general hydroponics flora micro gallon
https://www.perfectgardens.com general hydroponics flora bloom gallon
https://www.perfectgardens.com general hydroponics liquid koolbloom gallon
https://www.perfectgardens.com botanicare cal-mag plus gallon
Snow Storm Ultra is used as a foliar spray at 3-5 millilitres per gallon every 7-10 days during flowering.
https://www.perfectgardens.com emerald triangle snow storm ultra qt
KoolBloom Dry will be used later in this grow
https://www.perfectgardens.com general hydroponics KoolBloom Dry 2.2lb
I have used the General Hydroponics Flora series nutrient guide without issues but have reduced the nutrients accordingly due to using a LED light panel. There is a guide on the bottle and the website to guide you how much to use as what stage. There is usually a handout nutrient guide that is available at retailers as well.
All of the General Hydroponics products I have listed can be used in hydroponics, soil and soiless grow mediums. Always shake your nutrients before use. Always add the nutrients to water not to each other before water. I always start by adding Flora Micro, Flora Bloom, Flora Gro, Liquid KoolBloom and then Cal-Mag Plus for my flowering nutrients.
https://generalhydroponics.com nutrients flora series
https://generalhydroponics.com koolbloom
Here are General Hydroponics nutrient calculators
https://www.generalhydroponics.com calculator
General Hydroponics Flora Nutrient PPM Calculator
All of these products have already been used in this grow
https://www.perfectgardens.com general hydroponics flora gro gallon
https://www.perfectgardens.com general hydroponics flora micro gallon
https://www.perfectgardens.com general hydroponics flora bloom gallon
https://www.perfectgardens.com general hydroponics liquid koolbloom gallon
https://www.perfectgardens.com botanicare cal-mag plus gallon
Snow Storm Ultra is used as a foliar spray at 3-5 millilitres per gallon every 7-10 days during flowering.
https://www.perfectgardens.com emerald triangle snow storm ultra qt
KoolBloom Dry will be used later in this grow
https://www.perfectgardens.com general hydroponics KoolBloom Dry 2.2lb
Mycos ... that reminds me that I topdressed this portion of lawn with my leftover 6-5-3 mineral mix for my first run! It's the only place in the lawn that has these fungi and almost the entire area I broadcast has them. Isn't that remarkable ...
I have an alkaline lake-bottom deep black loam soil, so I reasoned it could probably use some added limestone/phosphate/gypsum. I guess the fungi like it.
