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[dragdeler]

There exist root stimulation additives from fertilizer brands, and there exists cloning powder for when you want to grow what you cut to a new plant. I rly don't know if you need them and if so which, just that they exist.

[Loud Whispers]

I am the onion lord
I sow my onions everywhere
Now their flowers bloom threefold summoning bees to the onions

[wierd]

There exist root stimulation additives from fertilizer brands, and there exists cloning powder for when you want to grow what you cut to a new plant. I rly don't know if you need them and if so which, just that they exist.

You mean crushed aspirin, right? (2)

[scriver]

Scriver is our local Herbal Hedge Mage. Consult him on the subject of the folial arcane.

May I suggest

Grow some root root root
It's a hoot hoot hoot
Give me basil loot
I am Groot

[dragdeler]

I would have bet weird knows a "house remedy" alternative. Interesting.

[scriver]

By the way I allowed one of my basils to flower (apparently that ruins the taste? i haven't tried any of their leaves yet but I'm definitely not wasting them unless they taste hideous) because I want to have my own seeds (which apparently is kinda unnecessary anyway since basil is supposed to be like the easiest plant to take... off-shoots of?) and goddamn do they have beautiful flowers.

Actually wait a second pictures incoming

[None]

jesus christ the basilfriend that i cut from grew like a whole extra goddamn inch yesterday he's too strong

and the cutting has reoriented its leaves towards the sun again this plant cannot be stopped

[scriver]

Spoiler: Beauiful Basil Blossoms (click to show/hide)

I tested one of its leaves while I was out there and yeah it was a lot more bitter. Not uneatable but probably just over the limit of my enjoyment.

Left a very strong liquorice aftertaste that was pretty tasty though.

Spoiler: Bonus Flax still steadily flaxing upwards (click to show/hide)

I think it's about 30-50 cm now. It's supposed to start flowering just below one metre of height

jesus christ the basilfriend that i cut from grew like a whole extra goddamn inch yesterday he's too strong

and the cutting has reoriented its leaves towards the sun again this plant cannot be stopped

It's definitely the spell I read!

[Dunamisdeos]

Scriver is our local Herbal Hedge Mage. Consult him on the subject of the folial arcane.

May I suggest

Grow some root root root
It's a hoot hoot hoot
Give me basil loot
I am Groot

[None]

The cutting has a few tiny little root nubbins! Prolly still gonna be a week or two before I can put it in solid earth, but it's trying really hard.

The earthbound original decided it really really needs to be tall, so it's still doing that. Lemonbalmfriend appears to be searching horizontally for new terrain to conquer, the African violet surrendered one fuzzy leaf- I think it went limp after my friends stroked it too much. Pothosfriend is becoming tentacular now that I've moved it away from the sun.

I need more houseplants.

EDIT: I have one more houseplant, a large tendril off a true mint plant that my friend insist I take because oh lawd that tentacle's comin' for new soils. It's not the catnip I hope to grow eventually, but it's one more impertinent mint to adorn my abode. Godspeed and good fuckin' yard, mintacle.

Edit Edit:

The Mintacle has not yet sprouted new leaf growths, but seems happy. I have planted the basil cutting in a vasepotthing featuring pandas and repotted the original basil from its tiny hourglass-shaped vase to a larger, more ordinary looking pot that was probably meant to hold tealight candles, losing most of the rootball in the process.

It's basil, so it'll probably live okay. The newly planted cutting is more or less fine, but I wonder a little if it wasn't too soon. Total Green Thing Count: 7.

[scriver]

Big news that I forgot to post about here yesterday! Yesterday I found my first flax flower bud in the patch!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

They only blossom for a single morning wilter around noon. I was going to take a photo of my first flower today but u got out of bed too late and by the time I got outside it had already dropped all but one of its crown leaves (and the last one fell off when I touched it to get the autofocus to lock into it)

Spoiler: But at least I got the second flower on picture. The lower arrow on the right points to the wiltered first one (click to show/hide)

[NAV]

I have a little garden on my balcony. Harvested the first salad yesterday, just lettuce and beet leaves. Also got tomatoes, green beans, and dill growing.

I got a bunch of free glass and plexiglass and wood, so I am building a little greenhouse cabinet thing to put on the balcony. That will give more vertical growing space and extend the growing season.

[Dunamisdeos]

Dill and Cilantro get wrecked by heat, if you end up with a super hot week like we had here, make sure to water at LEAST once a day. My cilantro lost two days of watering when I got sick and never recovered. Died in the end.

My dill is recovering, but barely.

[NAV]

Yes, my dill suffered heavily from a heat wave and has barely grown.

[scriver]

My flax is all sad and hangy too.