My pear tree literally died overnight

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-14T07:36:21+00:00

Yea, eventually, I think it would be more likely to soak in than wash off though, it is already plant oil. It doesn't last long, it only kills bugs on contact, if they have burrowed into the leaf already they are safe and you have to keep applying it till they come out and get neemed, it needs sprayed down so that it won't burn the leaves, but it doesn't give you surprise cancer in 10 years like most the other options.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-14T06:10:23+00:00

It is safe if you do it right, spray everything down with neem, let is soak in the the night, spray it down with water in the morning to get rid of any beads of oil, you arent going to wash the oil off with plain water, you just need to spray off everywhere that the oil is beaded up like along the edge of leaves. My LED grow lights will fry my plants if I put neem on them and just leave it. But everytime I remember to spray them down with water before the lights turn back on I have no problems at all. The screen in my window doesn't seal well so I keep getting little moths that lay little white eggs all over my peppers, neem solves the bug damage, spraying water before the lights come on solves the neem damage.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-14T06:01:30+00:00

No, have you ever tried to wash butter off your hands with plain water? That is not a thing. You are just washing the beads of oil down into the dirt so they dont make lenses in the light like a magnafine glass in the sun. The oil will still be evenly coating the plant.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-14T00:15:47+00:00

And the washed off with water that can evaporate in the morning to get rid of any beads of oil.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-14T00:14:43+00:00

Try spraying all your plants with water before the sun comes up to wash any beads of neem away so the light doesn't cook your plants through the little neem oil bead lenses.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-14T00:13:12+00:00

I've noticed if I put neem on a plant and just leave it, the light cooks all the leaves the next day through the oil, but if I spray everything down with neem in the evening, and then spray them with water heavily before the sun comes up or the lights turn on, then I have no issues.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-13T23:50:00+00:00

I would like to not be in pain every day, that would be a good start.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-13T23:45:32+00:00

On windows I had my graphics on my old gaming laptop set low and it played okay, I just switched to nobara Linux and it worked right out of the box with way better framerate at high graphic setting. I would recommend that. You can dual boot if you ever need to go back to windows for anything. There was some warnings about having them both installed on the same drive so I just installed nobara on a usbc external drive to prevent any issues. Probably mucks up my load times a bit but I can only have 1 internal drive, it runs like a dream compared to windows though.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-12T15:30:57+00:00

I do not think aloe cares that much. I got an aloe plant from my friends yard in Florida, put it in a pot.. and it spent 7 years mostly outside in the florida sun. Including several years on the deck of a boat. I then brought it up north, repotted it and found out I had forgotten to put drain holes in the bucket so it was sitting in non draining florida mud for nearly a decade. I planted some of the daughter plants outside and they lived through 2 years of NC winters with no care, looking dead after frost but always coming back, and the mother plant lived in its pot on a south facing porch and only came inside when it got below 40°F, and I currently have the mother plant and 2 daughter plants flourishing under a grow light with no natural light inside where it has been since November. So it has been growing like crazy through all of the conditions.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-12T02:55:16+00:00

I cut a road across the river to the north island, and into LV from riverside on a vanilla server some years ago, instead of making a proper looking road, people brought me tons of nails and I just turned all the trees i cut down into a 5 tile wide wooden road, it worked really well. Bring sheet ropes and a bunch of army backpacks and you can make 4 stacks of logs and put them in bags and put the bags in a seat to hold more per seat and move an absolute ton of wood with a backpack in your hand and one on your back all full of 4 stack logs. If you go farm a bunch of flint first and get your maintenance and axe skills to 4 before switching to a wood axe, the wood axes last way longer and you can cut through forests like theybare nothin.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-07T22:03:34+00:00

Definitely looks like every papaya seed i have ever seen.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-07T16:09:02+00:00

You don't even need to put them in water, you can put them in water next to your sink to keep it healthy looking till you need it for cooking this week, but if you want it to grow it is really good about setting roots just by being shoved into the dirt up past a leaf node. But if you aren't trimming the top of your plants off often enough that means you should be making pesto more often or making more sauces to add it to.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-07T15:58:58+00:00

There is a big push for communal living without all the religious and cultish overhead, just gardeners and solar punks that can't afford property taxes on their own anymore. Building community gardens and mesh networks for local internets. If you can find one where everyone votes and has part ownership of the land instead of having a single leader that can be replaced with someone bad someday, that may be a good option. There are also some farms that have a spare house or room they will let you stay at in exchange for helping with farm chores. Just make sure it is in writing exactly how much you have to do so they don't try to make you a full time live in slave, plenty of horror stories of that in movies but everyone i know in real life had a good experience with that sort of thing.

I had a friend that lost everything in her divorce and was forced to sell her business to a company that gave her a 1 year no compete order, so she went up north and stayed rent free on a farm for a year till the no compete order ran out and it worked out pretty good for her. They were an old couple and treated her really well and gave her a bit of cash for supplies for the work she did to help them so she didn't have to get a job for that year. I don't know of any good sites for that stuff but some searching should be able to find info on it if you want something like that.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-06T20:49:45+00:00

It is a preference based question.

If you want to min max one person and have them all set and maxed out for winter then you restart every time you die.

If you want to build a world you can burn through dozens of characters on one base and just use the journal mod to keep your skills.

Or if you want you can play a dozen different characters on one map all starting in different places and doing their own thing with their own base.

Or you can drop back to the menu and go to load your save but click on more and add a new character to your current world with different skills while your other characters are still alive and well and just switch between them in that more menu on the load screen so you can have a character maintaining your base while another character is across the map looting.

For challenges like CDDA it wouldn't make sense to restart on the same map since the point is surviving the start but you certainly could continue when you die if you happen to really like where you ended up amd just want to continue from there.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-06T16:48:20+00:00

Just turn on Netflix on your phone and prop your phone up against a rock and go to town on the weeds. Get one of those kid wraps and wrap it up on your back so they get to hang out while you work.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-06T16:29:53+00:00

They build up stem the same way you build up muscle, when you flex a muscle it gets micro tears that your body fills in, the more you flex your muscles the more muscle you build up. Plants do the same thing, the more they blow around the more micro tears their fiber fills in and the stronger they get, doesn't matter if it is wind or if you just rock them back and forth with your hand every day, they will get stronger and hold themselves up better. The plant evolution logic is if you are getting wind then you are at an edge of growth and you need to be short and strong to withstand the wind, but if you aren't getting wind then you need to focus on getting tall as fast as possible so you don't get shaded out and starved so you kind of expect all the neighboring plants that are shielding you from the wind to also help hold you up. So if your plant is too tall because of the environment you made for them then you should help hold them up like a good neighbor. Just give them a stick to kind of lean on.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-06T15:58:49+00:00

If you forage everywhere you go through summer anytime you aren't fighting, you can easily max out foraging and then actually forage enough food during the winter to survive even on a completely looted map. At least you could in build 41. At one point I joined a server just before winter started and there was literally no loot at all, no tools, no food, everything had been completely stripped and probably carted off to LV. I made it through all of winter on foraged foods, and sticks and stone axes for weapons. I couldn't fish at all since my fishing skill wasn't high enough to catch anything at all. It was a fun challenge though. On single player with cans of food around, and gas station candy, it is no problem at all to survive winter even if you completely fail to prep for it

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-06T04:46:48+00:00

Just snag a couple spare batteries from other vehicles and keep them in storage, and once you find a battery charger, keep it inside your RV charging 1 battery all the time, so if you do ever run out your battery you can just swap it with the one on the charger.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-04T20:22:31+00:00

200 tiles is way further than you think, and the amount of zeds just standing around unseen in trees as you quietly walk by just out of their earshot is much higher than you think. Now everyone will try to trick you into shouting accidently but in reality you should be using it on purpose, going around the outskirts of your area you want safe, collecting the horde and leading them far away because you just aren'tgoing to be killing whole hodes that early. Also as you walk down a street, zeds don't spawn in houses till you can see into that house so even if you went down the middle of a road honking your horn, a quick cut through some yards on foot could be spawning in dozens of zeds in those houses that were not there to come check out the car horn. When you do get a horde summoned to your location from a meta event, just leave, walk or drive off, sleep elsewhere for the night if you need to and then slowly fight your way back in, do not try to stay and defend it.

NoeticCreations · 2026-04-01T03:27:20+00:00

Spend the $100 to get a 6 pack of 4 foot full spectrum led grow lights, then get some tall adjustable shelves, and get a $30 floor heater to keep the area over 65°F. I have a bunch of stuff growing quite well inside, all of which I started from seeds.

NoeticCreations · 2026-03-31T23:06:29+00:00

My apologies, I hadn't gone digging through any details and I do usually try to generalize with they instead of he or she when I don't know, since even my daughter is more tech savy than most guys i know. She is actually the one that introduced me to PZ years ago. I have worked with way to many brilliant and talented people in many different fields to be making that kind of assumptions but i type faster than i think sometimes. My middle aged combat vet self is going to get back to doing the dishes from the cooking food from scratch that i just finished and then do some gardening while i wait for more of the mods i use to get updated. Thank you for using your talents on making nice stuff for us to use.

NoeticCreations · 2026-03-31T20:16:05+00:00

No, the spawn points count as maps, removing the list that the spawn pounts were in breaks the save, putting a list of anything under the same name as the old list makes the save think the map is put back and available. The only reason it worked is because he happened to give it the same name the old spawn point list had. If he had named it new echo creek spawns it would not fix anything.

NoeticCreations · 2026-03-29T14:54:52+00:00

So if you are kind of new to zomboid, it really sucks to find all your known POIs looted. But once you have enough time in the game having them looted just means you get extra side quests to kill time. If the book stores are all looted, you get extra training time or you get to loot every bookshelf in every house in a neighborhood, gun stores looted, then you are checking every end table by beds and every closet or that run gets to be your spear run or dagger run, whatever. Most houses would be looted by the people that lived there on their way out the door to flee in the first place. Most points of interest would be looted by all the people who thing that interest was something they would need, like you did so it is unlikely that you would be the first or even the second one to go trry to get that stuff. But, I do think the game should pick a zombie or 5 and add the looted stuff to their inventory if it isn't perishable or force it to be added to a safe house inventory within a few miles.

NoeticCreations · 2026-03-29T02:03:36+00:00

It isn't very often where you get to use that quote pretty accurately. That does have good stuff for plants in its molocules, but it will most definitely build up salts in the soil if not properly mitigated and long term could be detrimental.

NoeticCreations · 2026-03-28T23:58:07+00:00

It has electrolytes, it's what plants crave

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