rayge
Administrator
Invisible
Posts: 8,786
|
Post by rayge on Oct 9, 2022 11:14:56 GMT
Thanks G, Ray. So do I just pull/twist them off? Use scissors - assume you don't have secateurs - to cut the stalks just above the fruit. It will need to be inside over the winter, but I wouldn't bother about pruning it until it comes back into growth in the spring. And basically, once any pepper or chili fruit changes colour, it isn't going to get any bigger.
|
|
|
Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Oct 9, 2022 11:41:15 GMT
Great stuff. Thanks.
|
|
|
Post by souphound on Oct 10, 2022 2:38:22 GMT
I'm curious. Have you or will you taste/use them? As one who really doesn't like hot & spicy at all, I'd be a little scared. I'm absolutely not suggesting you should be scared. Just talking for myself. And like I said, curious.
|
|
|
Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Oct 12, 2022 10:25:40 GMT
I'll take them off in a few days and might make a salsa out of them. I really don't know what to expect.
|
|
|
Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Oct 12, 2022 10:26:21 GMT
You can't repot a plant too early, can you? if you know it's going to grow quite a lot and soon, it's OK to put it into a bigger pot before it does that?
|
|
rayge
Administrator
Invisible
Posts: 8,786
|
Post by rayge on Oct 12, 2022 10:58:38 GMT
if you know it's going to grow quite a lot and soon, it's OK to put it into a bigger pot before it does that? Not always. There's such a thing as overpotting. Basically, the roots have to have reached the sides of the pot, perhaps coming out through the pot drainage holes at the bottom. Lift the plant out and have a look. If it's all soil round the sides, don't repot. The danger is that if you put it in a much bigger pot, the roots won't grow out into all that new soil quickly enough, and it will get water-logged, which will inhibit root growth and may cause rotting.
|
|
|
Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Oct 12, 2022 11:05:39 GMT
Thanks Ray. I just bought another monstera from Morrisons - the last time, I had to repot after just a couple of weeks.
I'll wait a wee while then.
|
|
|
Post by cousinlou on Oct 12, 2022 14:33:43 GMT
I'll take them off in a few days and might make a salsa out of them. I really don't know what to expect. I harvested mine a few weeks ago. Probaby because of the hot summer but they were steamingly strong.
|
|
rayge
Administrator
Invisible
Posts: 8,786
|
Post by rayge on Nov 10, 2022 12:31:05 GMT
This morning did some loin-girding and set to a garden task I had been putting off/dreading for months: moving a couple of Japanese mapels in very large ceramic pots about 30 feet and two witch hazels in half-barrels in the opposite direction. Both the pots wighed around 45kg/100lb, and the half barrels each considerably more than that. All of them more than I can carry in my arms, or dead lift into a wheelbarrow, with the added complications (1) that they are all basically trees, with branches going way beyond the footprint of the containers, making it difficult to get close enough to get a good grip and (2) that the 30 feet include a stretch of path alongside the shed that's more or less the same width as the diameter of the barrels, two three-inch bits of path edging to get over, a nine-inch conrete step to negotiate and, in the case of one of the half-barrels, a fairly short one in two muddy slope topped by an eight-inch roof-tile barrier that I had to surmount, as the prepared ground on the other side was three inches below the top of the barrier and a fairly snug fit.
It took me the best part of two hours using basically Stone Age methods (levers and bricks mainly and going a few inches at a time) and I was so sweat-drenched, mucky and exhausted at the end of it that I had to shower, change all my clothes and sit down for a bit, but I'm really pround that I managed to do it, to work out the logistics, not injure myself badly (got a slight wound under one eye from an erreant branch) and in doing so break a logistical log-jam that was getting in the way of major changes that really should be completed before the winter arrives.
|
|
|
Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Nov 10, 2022 14:04:46 GMT
It's a shame you didn't have anyone to help. B and I recently discovered that it's quite easy to move large, heavy plant pots by getting them on a large towel or blanket and then each grab an end of the blanket (or towel) and lift that way, much the same way that movers can easily lift heavy objects using straps.
|
|
|
Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Jan 22, 2023 14:00:04 GMT
Just repotted a lovely draceana. The last time I did that (same kind of plant) it killed the fucker within hours. Hope this survives.
What's the point of standing pots in those saucer things? They still collect the water and the plant still stands in it. No?
|
|
|
Post by A.R. Parsons on Jan 22, 2023 15:01:26 GMT
When I've used those saucers it's always been with unpainted terracotta pots as they are very porous allowing the soil to dry quicker. The saucer collects the run-off keeping you from needing to water as often.
|
|
|
Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Feb 11, 2023 10:22:01 GMT
Think both snake plants (which I moved to the bedroom) are finished
|
|
rayge
Administrator
Invisible
Posts: 8,786
|
Post by rayge on Jun 4, 2023 17:02:24 GMT
Sound up
|
|
rayge
Administrator
Invisible
Posts: 8,786
|
Post by rayge on Jun 4, 2023 20:38:55 GMT
Think both snake plants (which I moved to the bedroom) are finished I lost mine to neglect in a cold room over winter. I'd had it 50 years. I was gutted.
|
|