as promised, the transplanting tutorial
most sources make transplanting sound incredibly difficult, but transplanting young seedlings from areas with sparse dirt, like a driveway or roadside, is actually incredibly easy and can get you some great stuff. Once I worked out the method, i've had a very high survival rate
it took me like a month of trial and error to figure this out so you don't have to.
Feel free to repost, no need for credit
FREE TREES AND FLOWERS!
It is a common belief that native plant gardening is hard and expensive but plants are free. They're everywhere. They just do their thing.
It is common for seedlings to grow in places they cannot survive longterm; the side of the road, pavement crack, gravel driveway.
How did they get here? Plants spread their seeds in a variety of ways. Some of the main ones are:
- birds: when birds eat berries and fruits, the seeds are not digested and sprout in the ground when the bird poops.
- wind: lots of seeds have fluffy parachutes of helicopter wings so they can be blown far away to find a place to grow
- water: rain and streams can wash seeds away and leave them in a muddy area to sprout
- mammals: acorns and nuts from trees are foods for families, who bury them later. sometimes they sprout into trees instead
A seed will do its best to sprout... whether it's a good place for a fully grown plant or not. Plants that sprout in harsh places are sometimes beautiful and vulnerable species, and they are easy to transplant.
Here's how:
you will need
- a pot: A red solo cup is the right size for most transplantable seedlings- don't use anything much smaller. You can also use an orange juice carton or even a cardboard box. Make sure you cut holes or slits in the bottom so it won't be soggy forever when you water it.
- potting mix: it's not the same as dirt- it's lighter, fluffier and drains easily.
- a place to put it: put them outside where they get some sun, but not where they get direct sun all day long. If they're on a surface that gets hot, elevate them by putting them on a cardboard box or something.
The idea is to transplant seedlings that wouldn't survive where they are. Don't just uproot plants that aren't in any danger. Obviously don't do anything dangerous or illegal. AVOID roads with frequent traffic or main highways. Do NOT put yourself at risk of being hit by a car.
I collect from roadsides because I live in a neighbourhood with no outlet. If you grab an invasive species, it's in a pot where it can't hurt anything and you can just kill it.
NEVER plant anything in the ground without knowing what it is, though.
A seedling this size (about an inch) or smaller is most likely to survive. The two most important things are to keep as much of the root intact as you can and to make sure the roots stay damp. You can wrap the roots up in a wet paper towel.
How to transplant:
From gravel: seedlings growing in gravel or pebbles are easiest to transplant. Remove bits of gravel one by one and carefully pry up the pieces that are stuck, until the roots are exposed. Mulch can be removed the same way.
From a crack in the pavement: Very carefully pinch the stem as low to the ground as you can and shift and tug until you pull it free. Be patient! Breaking small roots is fine but if you hear the main root 'snap' RIP to the plant.
From dirt: Digging around the whole plant is hard to do quickly and seamlessly. Soaking the ground in water or searching after a rain can help you gently pull small plants up.
How to put them in a pot:
Carefully put potting mix around the roots. Don't crush them.
Don't touch any part above the lower stem with dirty hands... especially not new leaves. A speck of dirt on a delicate new leaf can make it start rotting which will spread to the whole plant. Water, immediately. Get only the potting mix wet, not the leaves (that can make them vulnerable to rotting).
Seedlings with broad, big leaves can dry up easily from direct sun exposure, but many aren't happy in the shade So you can cut one of these (cardboard toilet roll centre) in half and put the half around the seedling like a "collar".
How to take care of them:
After transplanting, plants are very weak. It's like recovering from an injury or illness.
Check on the plants at least a couple of times a day and water a little if the potting mix is dry. I like to adjust their location at different times of the day- newer seedlings might need to be moved to a shadier spot when it's sunniest, but later in the evening plants in the shade benefit from being put in the sun.
Don't be discouraged if they die, they had a very harsh early life and some of them won't make it.
As they get bigger you can identify the species you have and decide if you want to plant them. My policy is to plant only species that are native to my area. You WILL find invasive species and you want to get rid of those, trust me. Uprooting them and leaving them on a concrete surface kills just about everything. Don't throw an invasive plant in the grass and DO NOT try to compost them.
That's all. Embark on your life armed with this knowledge.
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Does anyone know good resources for identifying the plants?
I advise becoming familiar with the invasive species in your area first and foremost. Then, iNaturalist will be a great help. You can also try plant identification apps (they're not perfect but they give you something to look up and compare) and for the USA, my favorite plant website is wildflowersearch.org. It has loads of links to other useful websites with every entry.
#uhhhh me#poll#my friend refered to suicide squad as a marvel movie#a different friend called eeaao a marvel movie#both times i was like HUH??? is this a common occurrence??#like maybe people assume all comic boom movies are based on marvel#or the 'marvel' is referring to the fact the movie is a marvel to watch#like when people call a movie an 'event' movie
completely unrelated to anything i was talking about but my dentist has rly upped their fluoride game in the last few years. at first it was a strawberry flavoured rinse (gross, gives me upset stomach if i even so much as accidentally swallow a drop), then it became a general fruit flavour (better taste), then it became a FOAM (revolutionary). the latest appointment i had LIME flavoured fluoride foam. is this a general thing that's happening in the dental world or is my dentist just like on top of their fluoride game
so like is anyone gonna make an amv of nina and matthias to the song "this is love" by the rigs
the only reason i haven't done it is bc i've never made an amv before and not sure i want to and helnik isn't exactly in my top tier ships but this song legit makes me go crazy about them
THE HUNTS THE SONG IS BY THE HUNTS NOT THE RIGS
so like is anyone gonna make an amv of nina and matthias to the song "this is love" by the rigs
the only reason i haven't done it is bc i've never made an amv before and not sure i want to and helnik isn't exactly in my top tier ships but this song legit makes me go crazy about them
so like is anyone gonna make an amv of nina and matthias to the song "this is love" by the hunts
The only tiktok trend that matters is people filming those easter chickens and then going “who did ____ without permission?” and one of the chickens is so fucked up and its obvious who the answer is and the intro to You Gotta Move by Mississippi Fred McDowell is blasting
LEAVE THESE ANIMALS ALONE!!!
pride poll
extremely funny seeing the tags roll in that say shit like "say sike...." "this is a jumpscare" "q slur tw" "ofc people who like queer say they like mogai" i know this flavor of rancid personality so well
DRAG IS NO LONGER BANNED IN TENNESSEE ✨✨
[ID: A tweet by Pop Base @PopBase. It reads:
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/End ID]
oh my god i figured it out. eiffel's memory loss makes sense.
if you also believe that, as is heavily implied, the entire crew was recreated in the star, eiffel losing his memory is not only completely sensible but also narratively fulfilling.
he starts the story as our everyman, our entry into the world of wolf 359. he ends the story as their everyman. the perfect vessel for learning everything they want to know about the parts of our world they're most curious about. like, come on. i've seen so many people talking about how he's going to have to watch all those movies, listen to all that music, read all those books. the dear listeners need an unbiased intro to humanity's pop culture and he is their absolutely perfect way of accomplishing that.
My 10 year high school reunion should be coming up this year and absolutely the fuck not. My HS and some of the people there were literal demons.
Feel free to share your reason(s) in the tags
kepler telling the three legged pig joke 'you don't eat it all at once' then losing his hand and still doggedly trying to see the mission through after saying 'goddard has demanded every inch of my life', like there's some kind of innate but ignored knowledge that goddard is going to consume everything there is of him to eat but until then he's going to be the bestest most useful pig in the world 🐷
i dug out my old tablet for potential costuming purposes (dressing up as momo from stray) and was sooo excited when it still turns on and then was hit with the fact i don't remember my password
oh
my fucking
god
so i was thinking about what teenage me liked. i joined tumblr for loki but was into superwholock long before that. so i thought about what passwords are related to superwholock
and then suddenly, vaguely, i remembered that one of the sherlock episodes involved guessing irene adler's password. i couldn't remember what the answer ended up being, so i googled it
it was "sher". as in "sher-locked"
i didn't think that was it, but i tried it
and it
WORKED
I had this idea for a looping animation in which a single dot has a pretty long loop, but the animation as a whole is much shorter. Because of the repetition this animation is only 1 second long!
still in the process of making that wolf 359 fan animation
