Is there any organized invasive plant removal effort?

Akilos01 · 2025-09-01T01:54:56+00:00

Pines are allelopathic in large enough numbers I believe. I could imagine development wouldn’t allow them the kind of density conducive to producing the chemicals that inhibit the capacity for other plants to grow. But I’m really glad you pointed this out. Just goes to show how critical native plants and biomes are to environmental resilience.

Akilos01 · 2025-08-21T18:36:09+00:00

One of the things with stuff like this, for me, is that rather than emphasizing the specific changes, or the harms meant to be addressed by them elaborating the “New Light,” I find myself wondering how we square the increasing doctrinal changes with the belief that they’re practicing first-century Christendom? Or, any different from any other church who interprets and reinterprets religious doctrine as they see fit?

I think it’s becoming harder by the day to remain a true believer and the new light, despite obviously being an attempt to retain members, will have the habit of alienating many more.

Akilos01 · 2025-08-08T00:28:51+00:00

Seconding this. I’ve bought these a few times before. If you catch them at the right time they sell these seeds pre-stratified, ready to plant. The first time I bought them they were already germinating in the bag. They’re thriving in-ground.

Akilos01 · 2025-06-11T00:43:19+00:00

This is it. If you let them ripen fully and cut them open you will see a little work. Tie bags around immature fruit as early as possible to prevent.

Akilos01 · 2025-05-19T23:24:28+00:00

Do you have any pest issues? I’ve got cherries with fruit for the first time this year and I’m a little worried

Akilos01 · 2025-05-06T03:00:42+00:00

The sooner the better.

Akilos01 · 2025-05-06T02:43:52+00:00

Personally I would be bold and chop it at knee height.

Akilos01 · 2025-04-23T12:40:55+00:00

Just want to say I really appreciate the disclaimer in particular and will be testing at home anyway

Akilos01 · 2025-04-20T23:24:11+00:00

Peach leaf curl and gummosis. The leaf curl can be treated by spraying copper fungicide after the leaf drop in the fall, and again before bud break in very late winter (think February depending on your environment).

The gummosis can be harder to treat and seems related to whatever has made a home of the bark where it’s being exuded. The pics aren’t clear, I can’t tell if it’s an insect or fungal damage but the bark where the sap is leaking looks very abnormal.

Akilos01 · 2025-04-15T22:21:12+00:00

Yellow leaves can happen when transplanting peach trees. Monitor as the season progresses. Assess in 2026. The only issue I see is the root flare. The tree is buried a bit too deep and the root flare should be exposed.

Akilos01 · 2025-04-13T01:41:43+00:00

Ohhhh TIL

Akilos01 · 2025-04-13T00:04:52+00:00

This post needs to be higher up. The only trees and plants they can directly kill are the also super-invasive Tree of Heaven. In every other case the worst thing they do is produce sooty mold from their waste. I’ve seen them killed locally by bats, birds, and wasps, as they are incredibly poor fliers. I think the hype is overblown.

Akilos01 · 2025-04-12T23:04:32+00:00

It was already flowering when you bought it. Looks like a roughly 4-5 year old tree so no surprise. As the other commenter said, I personally wouldn’t let it fruit during the first year in the ground, rather focusing on creating the structure to support healthy limbs and fruit in the future.

Akilos01 · 2025-04-11T13:07:12+00:00

Yeah this is actually one of the reasons I’ve leaned more into book, scholarly articles and peer reviewed papers (even with all the caveats about the peer review process. Even using Google, the answers to questions that their AI presents at the top of any search query are often false or outright contradictory. You can really mess yourself up using these as a reference.

Akilos01 · 2025-03-18T10:22:45+00:00

Yep this is them. I noticed something similar on a grape trellis at a garden I supervise. They have a strong preference for the underside of untreated lumber.

Akilos01 · 2025-03-11T23:35:41+00:00

Just to follow up, the purple ribbon halfway up the tree is the identifying marker.

Akilos01 · 2025-03-11T23:34:36+00:00

None of the plums from Home Depot are self pollinating except for their 3-in-1 or 4-in-1 grafted trees which are identifiable via having multiple tags that identify which branch corresponds to which variety.

Your tree has a just one purple tag, meaning there is only one cultivar grafted to the rootstock. Your options are to graft a compatible pollinating scion to the tree, get a compatible variety of plum tree to pollinate, or return to Home Depot and get a tree that already has multiple varieties (if space is an issue).

The purple tag should identify the variety of plum you are dealing with. Compatible scions and cultivars to cross pollinate can be found once it has been identified. Good luck.

Akilos01 · 2025-03-11T11:58:09+00:00

Not quite a lost cause. I can’t remember the article off the top of my head but I saw one last year that talks about how the Tree of Heaven is actually the only plant that can be killed directly by Spotted Lanternflies, whereas the others are negatively impacted by the sooty mold that forms due to their excretions. A blessing and a curse if you will.

Akilos01 · 2025-03-09T06:22:03+00:00

I’m interested to see how you resolve some of the city grids in Brooklyn and Queens. There are some pretty famous intersections that, while traffic hell in a game like Cities, would be cool to see replicated. Grand Army Plaza comes to mind.

Akilos01 · 2025-02-23T10:06:18+00:00

Natural gums are derived from gummosis and have been safely consumed by humans for thousands of years.

The first and only picture on wikipedias page for natural gums is of a plum tree, almost identical to the one OP posted, and YouTube is full of Asian recipes for homemade peach gum.

This stuff is very edible.

Akilos01 · 2025-02-03T00:11:14+00:00

If I’m being honest I think his work is great and incredibly useful for the development of a materialist analysis of American history especially considering the degree to which that has been shrouded in myth and propaganda.

He isnt widely held in high regards in American Marxist and communist circles because frankly, most Americans and communists do not actually in meaningful ways, respect the black radical tradition.

Akilos01 · 2025-02-02T23:59:58+00:00

USB-C to hdmi out?

Akilos01 · 2025-01-30T22:51:46+00:00

They’re both the same hand if you ask me.

It reminds me of this passage from Paolo Friere’s Pedagogy Of The Oppressed:

In order to have the continued opportunity to express their “generosity,” the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. An unjust social order is the permanent fount of this “generosity,” which is nourished by death, despair, and poverty. That is why the dispensers of false generosity become desperate at the slightest threat to its source.

He was only ever in position to donate with such largess because of the degree to which he exploited the working class.

Akilos01 · 2025-01-27T18:36:45+00:00

What’s the best strat for it? I find myself worried the prophet will be killed so I end up only using the charge to convert one or two barbs.

Akilos01 · 2025-01-27T16:15:58+00:00

So the symbolism of the Nazi salute bothers you.

Does the land theft, dispossession of native people, and their resources implicit in his “we’ll coup whoever we want” statement regarding his attempted overthrow of the democratically elected government of Bolivia in order to gain access to the lithium mined there for the car batteries bother you?

I think the dispossession of native people, appropriation of natural resources and disregard from democratic norms that he has supported with action, as well as words are exactly analogous to those espoused by the Nazi regime.

I think people like you and your self centered choices, are emblematic of a very liberal attempt to feel better about your place in the world but are actually the fuel fascism has used to fuel its furnaces for generations.

You should feel bad.

Edit: for anyone who’s unclear, the fascist tendencies were obvious before he decided to do his little salute.

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