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Mostly focusing on non succulent plants but a few in the mix wouldn’t hurt. Here are my non cacti and succulent plants with the exception of Disocactus. Post yours below

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/N0ufVEZ

Where's your variegated Monstera
Still pretty cheap! https://www.google.com/search?q=variega ... 36&bih=755

All of them? That would be a large post.. But I will post one of them, bought some months ago. It was a small green plant labelled; ‘Green plants’... Which wasn’t very helpful in identifying it. This small plant have doubled it’s size since I got it and I wonder if it could be a Strelitzia, possible reginae? It’s about 70 cm tall now. The leaves are stiff and shiny and a odd feature it’s the undulated leaf edge, who only appears on on side of the leaf.

Mrs.Green wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 9:01 am This small plant have doubled it’s size since I got it and I wonder if it could be a Strelitzia, possible reginae?

It looks like a Strelitzia, not sure what varieties they have in the shops now.

I think the seeds are almost as interesting as the flowers.
http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:l ... es:37365-1

Schefflera and Anthurium. Some of the easiest houseplants, the latter is blooming year-round. Can stand at least 2 weeks without watering that is important if you grow mostly cactuses.

7george wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 6:29 pm Schefflera and Anthurium.
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Some of the easiest houseplants, the latter is blooming year-round. Can stand at least 2 weeks without watering that is important if you grow mostly cactuses.

It’s funny cause I’ve been a member here for like 9 years and I started out with mostly desert cacti. Now due to living in an apartment I rely on mostly tropicals and epiphytic cacti. In fact most of the plants I currently have aren’t cacti or succulents at all but things like Anthurium, Calathea, ZZ plants(might be a succulent?), Crotons, Pothos, and Peace lilies. I then have a some Rhipsalis, Disocactus, and Epiphyllum but surprisingly no Schlumbergera yet. I don’t have the light for desert cacti anymore that I once had

One Windowsill wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 5:54 pm
It looks like a Strelitzia, not sure what varieties they have in the shops now.

I think the seeds are almost as interesting as the flowers.
http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:l ... es:37365-1

Thank you very much One Windowsill The seeds are interesting! I wonder what’s the purpose of the orange mass on them? Could it have something to do with spreading the seeds by birds or other creatures eating them?


CactusBoss; Schefflera’s were quite popular here as houseplants a couple of decades ago. But they seemed to be quite the RSM magnets unfortunately, along with Hederas, who one can be fairly certain either come with RSM or gets it..

One of my Saintpaulia ionantha and a one of my Pelargoniums.

Do aquatic plants in an aquarium count?

Does my shallow tray of Utricularia gibba Bladderwort count? I have gotten two flowers already!!

Do outdoor cold hardy carnivorous plants count?

I do have three African Violets. One for over 21 years as my son started it in kindergarten. (I helped the teacher do that project by buying cheap non flowering AV so they could be cut apart.)

I have two mini orchids. One flowered with over 16 flower stalks this year! Bulbophyllum taiwanense.

One of our many Monstera's, but definitely one of the most impressive specimens (and to know I recently trimmed it).

jerrytheplater wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 3:26 am Do aquatic plants in an aquarium count?

Does my shallow tray of Utricularia gibba Bladderwort count? I have gotten two flowers already!!

Do outdoor cold hardy carnivorous plants count?

I do have three African Violets. One for over 21 years as my son started it in kindergarten. (I helped the teacher do that project by buying cheap non flowering AV so they could be cut apart.)

I have two mini orchids. One flowered with over 16 flower stalks this year! Bulbophyllum taiwanense.

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Why not? They are technically in the house ( plants in an aquarium) and I would realky like to see the bladderworth too! A 21 year old african violet? Pics please Lovely Bulbophyllum!

ohugal wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 6:14 am One of our many Monstera's, but definitely one of the most impressive specimens (and to know I recently trimmed it).

Very nice Monstera! I have a couple of those too, the biggest one is placed on a piedestall and the air roots are now more than 150 cm and crawling on the floor

Now maybe everyone has an orchid. This one blooms 4 - 5 years in a row.

Mrs. Green

That violet really is that old. I have had to cut off 1/3 of the root ball numerous times to sink the neck back into the potting soil. It needs it now too. It is the middle pink one. The other two are at least 15 years old. I have not kept records.
Utricularia gibba grow dish started this year on June 12. Here is the step by step for how I planted it.

First picture shows Long Fiber Sphagnum moss which had all of the stems of weeds pulled out along with other non LFS plants. I cut it up into smaller pieces. Next I mixed the LFS with fine Yellow Mason Sand which when made into a slurry with distilled water has a pH of 3.5. Roughly 50/50 by volume. Next I capped it with a layer of the Yellow Mason Sand and filled with a mixture of aquarium water from my Lake Tanganyika Shell Dweller tank where this U. gibba is thriving and a local pond where there are all sorts of tiny critters. For sure there were Ostracods and some newly free swimming fish fry. Lastly I gently poked the U. gibba under the top layer of sand. Not shown is the shade cloth I kept over this dish for three weeks as I got the plant used to full sun. Now on August 10th I took a photo of the second flower. You'll see the seedpod of the first flower in the back of this photo. That dish is a pasta dish I bought at the Goodwill Thrift Store. I wanted something big and shallow and cheap. Best I can do to show some Aquatic Plants is to point you to a video of my tank with Rambo Vallisneria growing in it. This plant grows about a foot tall in softer water. In hard water it only gets maybe 2" tall. The first 7 minutes are just watching the fish with my comments. The last two minutes shows a one gallon jar with softer water and a Rambo Val about 8" tall. I know this plant is winter hardy outdoors if stored in about 24" of water with the container sunk in the ground.

https://youtu.be/ALgW17k8vxA

That's enough for tonight.

Just walked into the room where I keep the orchids and found my Bulbophyllum had fallen off the windowsill onto the floor. 3/4 of the plant became detached. At least I have a spare piece of cork to remount the other piece. I've been wondering how I was going to get the orchid off of the mount. Now I see that brute force is OK. And I now have a division I can try to sell.

jerrytheplater wrote: ↑Sat Aug 21, 2021 2:37 am
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That is the kind of weirdness I like to see people growing. Stunning flowers as well.