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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2016-04-15 02:24
As the title says, I planted some plants. Or to be specific, I planted some seeds.
Have you ever planted plants?
What did you plant?
How did that work out for you?
Mine will probably die because I have a black thumb of death.
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Aubog007 wrote on 2016-04-15 02:29
Daisies.
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Snowie Stormflower wrote on 2016-04-16 00:33
As a kid, I planted tulips, I even got to see them bloom.
Sadly the environment wasn't the best and they died shortly after blooming.
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2016-04-16 01:35
Aw, that's sad. ):
I planted a mix of different flowers I thought looked neat, and then I got some Congo Watermelon seeds from an heirloom seed store and planted those. From what I've seen they usually weigh between 30-50 lbs. I look forward to eating them.
Oh, also bamboo. I hear that shit spreads like wildfire. I'm gonna have a bamboo forest.
[Image: http://www.edenbrothers.com/store/media/Vegetables/Watermelon/ss_size3/Watermelon-Congo.jpg]
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2016-04-16 23:36
Ah yes, I remember helping my parents grow a pretty big garden growing up. There's some plants we could never get to grow though. Watermelons and Radishes were two such plants we could never get to grow. Gardening can be really hard work, especially with the large garden we had. It would take about a week of effort (considering they only had us do 3-4 rows a day and we had like 24 rows of plants). We had corn, tomatoes, peas, stringed beans, potatoes, pumpkins, carrots, brocolli, brussel sprouts, swiss shard, spinach, lettuce (that was the hardest to grow due to bugs continually getting at them), cauliflower, sunflowers (my mom really loved sunflowers).
It's quite satisfying seeing all that hard work pay off. Harvesting such a big garden though also was a pretty big effort. The hardest thing to weed I swear though are carrots due to how the weeds like to blend in with the carrots making it so you really have to through them carefully.
Hopefully your plants turn out all right Nith!
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2016-04-17 19:33
Thanks! I don't think they're going to grow though. It has been 3 or 4 days since I planted them and nothing has happened yet. I don't remember the beans we grew in a paper towel in elementary school taking this long to start growing.
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Snowie Stormflower wrote on 2016-04-17 21:12
Doesn't it take like, at least 4 months for watermelons to grow? Longer if you want tastier ones.
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2016-04-18 01:31
Quote from Snowie Stormflower;1294941:
Doesn't it take like, at least 4 months for watermelons to grow? Longer if you want tastier ones.
Oh yeah, they'll be growing until like, October. But I also planted other stuff as well and so far nothing has even started growing. Lol.
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Elleanior wrote on 2016-04-18 01:42
Had a whole rose garden in my teens. Then depression hit like the semi from City Escape.
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2016-04-18 05:46
So many sad plant-related stories.
In other new though -
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[Image: http://puu.sh/omvNV/b06c0f407e.jpg]
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Edit: So far no life from the bamboo though. I think I may have overwatered it and made it get dead because I just noticed the container isn't draining very well.
Edit 2: Upon further research it seems Bamboo can take up to 2 weeks to even -start- to form roots, so I won't know how these are doing for a long time.
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Osayidan wrote on 2016-04-18 11:59
I tried to grow a watermelon once. Ended up with an apple-sized melon. The soil was probably too crappy to support something as big as a watermelon.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2016-04-18 12:49
Ya, that's the other delicate part of gardening is the Ph balance of the soil and trying to get that right balance. During the winter my parents would have us throw food that was going bad out on the garden as fertalizer. Also the right amount of shade vs sunlight and of course the right levels of watering.
Gardening is almost like an exact science. Some people though are naturals at it like my late grandmother who had a pretty good green thumb. Able to grow tomatoes out of tomato seeds from a tomato she was eating.
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2016-04-18 22:39
I decided that I won't be planting the bamboo even if it does grow. Unfortunately I got the wrong kind, and I don't want to deal with the lawsuit from when it spreads and ruins the farmer's field for at least 3 years(How long it usually takes to get rid of a bamboo infestation). Unfortunately the clumping kind which isn't a near indestructible spreading machine is much more expensive.
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Space Pirate Nithiel wrote on 2016-04-19 07:36
Updated pictures for anyone interested. The watermelons are starting to poke up out of the dirt and little green bits from the flowers are popping up all over.
[Image: http://puu.sh/onOJq/813f8977ec.jpg]
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Some of the other pods on the other side of the container are starting to get a bunch of white stringy stuff coming out of them, it looks almost like a spider web. I don't know if I planted the seed upside down and the roots are coming out the top instead or what. Lol.
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Rat wrote on 2016-04-19 08:06
The first thing I recall planting was tomatoes. I was young and assumed this is how it normally worked--I cut open a tomato, scooped the seeds out and planted them in the ground outside my front door. I was not aware that it would be a rarity for those seeds to;
1. Grow in the Winter season and survive.
2. Grow from seeds that had previously been the guts of a store bought tomato.
3. Grow enough to reach it's "peak" point.
Even though I didn't know this, I planted those seeds. They grew in the Winter. They were insanely huge tomatoes, and there was at the very least thirty-fourty of those tomatoes growing on those plants. I happened to get really lucky. Sadly I didn't take any pictures of these said tomatoes, and I don't believe they were ever eaten because my mother had left them out too long after they were picked.
Rest in peace tomatoes.