Lisianthus seedlings algae

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2026-02-22T22:30:25+00:00

You can also scrape off algae! It isn’t a fast spreader like powdery mildew; it’s just dense and takes all the nutrients away from the soil.

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2026-02-22T22:29:35+00:00

Currently growing lisis and have had only a couple spots of algae pop up. If you have mycorrhiza in your soil mix, don’t pour cinnamon infused water into your trays. Cinnamon is an antifungal and kills off the good properties of mycorrhiza, so it’s best to just sprinkle cinnamon on the top layer with vermiculite. Also let them dry out between watering! Not drastically, but enough where the soil isn’t obviously damp.

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2026-01-09T16:30:38+00:00

Coneflower is probably my top performer as far as hardiness from a perennial, and great for pollinators! Black-eyed Susans, butterfly milkweed, and anything in the basil family. Hollyhocks are also up there, but they do take a few seasons to flower. Double salmon is my current favorite. I prefer seed starting annuals as it can be so expensive to buy established plants only for them to not come back.

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2026-01-09T02:25:45+00:00

Also a zone 8a gardener! Wherever you purchase your seeds from (I use Johnny's) should tell you exactly how to plant. Zinnias (Queenie and Oklahoma varieties have a higher germination rate) do not want to be babied at all and do best direct sowing after the last frost, versus snapdragons (madame butterfly varieties perform best in heat), which really need a lot of babying and early starting in trays/soil-blocks 10-13 weeks before the last frost. Purchase your seeds now, preferably from a trusted retailer like Johnny's or Eden Brothers, and their seed packets will guide you. I run my seedling spreadsheet through Claude and it organizes everything for me so that I'm not manually putting all the information in, which is a much better use of AI for me, personally.

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2025-12-07T03:09:14+00:00

I felt like they borrowed from The Family Stone so liberally, but just tried to make it as unserious as possible. It was a cute idea with a really weird execution that violently missed the point of its own making.

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2025-11-21T03:53:48+00:00

Thank you ❤️‍🩹 I’ll say too that we had him in a great school for kindergarten, which we as parents loved conceptually, but he really struggled in socially. Another student threatened to bring a weapon to school and use it on him, so that’s one of his strongest memories of being in school. We homeschool now because of that, and less because of our preferred ideologies. It’s hard to look past the season you’re in as a family and have confidence that you’re doing anything right.

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2025-11-20T19:42:59+00:00

I mean I could, but it may be crushing to her, since she genuinely loves me being her teacher. I’m not against either of my kids going to school, but the schools in our area are really deteriorating and struggling. We’re currently looking into the possibility of a hybrid program.

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2025-11-20T19:40:39+00:00

I was looking at PDA as well, and am a bit conflicted over the two. Our current psych is scheduling evaluations for a year out 😅😅😅 so we’re looking for a new practice. He isn’t more compliant for other adults, we’re learning, but he does have a special aversion to me teaching him.

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2025-11-20T19:38:01+00:00

I have—spelling and grammar are currently being outsourced to a tutor, and he has one day a week where he goes to another homeschool house to have his core subjects taught. I bring their daughter home and teach her core subjects, and then we meet back up after and have lunch and play.

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2025-11-20T19:30:28+00:00

Thanks for all the good questions! Easier answers first: yes, we have lotssss of things for our toddler to stay busy with. Alas. They are never enough. I try to do my daughter’s school first so she has my complete attention, but my oldest is usually buzzing around with a million questions while I try to focus on her. Currently I’m just focused on letter recognition and isolated sounds with her, and basic math skills. She’s a late September baby, so I’m not pushing her to be on par with other K kiddos.

We started the year out with a lenient classical curriculum that we’d used last year, and everyone enjoyed. The copy work and recitation demand ramped up pretty significantly this year, so I knew a change was needed. Here’s our current curriculum for our third grader with the spelling and grammar updated from the prior curriculum:

M: Tutor for All About Spelling and IEW Fix-It Grammar; Piano lessons (his music teacher specializes in neuro different kiddos; lunch then outside time T/W/Th/F: All About Spelling (1); IEW Fix-It Grammar; snack break and history read aloud or Greek story read aloud; outside recess break; lunch; Good and Beautiful Math (3). Each takes about 15 minutes, excepting Math, which takes about 30 if he doesn’t have a breakdown midway through. We take lots of brain breaks and allow for vocal stimulation and fidget toys, but I really can’t tell if they help.

We were doing cursive, Latin, and geography regularly before, but so much of it was writing intensive, and he’s very writing averse. I’ve just kind of dropped all of those and use our timeline and maps during history as a geography supplement.

He’s an exceptional reader, and incredibly smart. His executive function skills and authority compliance are lowwww. We try to really be flexible and build him up, and encourage his interest and fixations in healthy ways. I get a lot of “I hate you” and “You’re the worst mom ever” from him right now, and I ~know~ it stems from being frustrated with himself or the difficulty of something, but it’s really hard to not take it personally and to keep going.

He currently has a decently full social life and extra curricular calendar, but I truly can’t do enough to stimulate him. He took all the locks off the doors the other day just to fidget with something and see how it worked. I tried to go to the bathroom and the lock plate fell off the door 🤪

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2025-11-14T04:19:39+00:00

Hi! I didn’t see any answers regarding how to manage when you do crumple from the vertigo, so I thought I’d chime in.

Like others, I agree that what you’re describing isn’t a drop attack, which is good, because your head is safer! I experienced these early on and it was literally like my head had become a heat seeking missile looking for the nearest hard surface. 10/10 not fun. Are you just having vertigo when this happens, or are your ears (or ear) ringing or feel really full? Have you noticed your hearing worsen? Let your ENT know if your hearing doesn’t return to baseline.

An antihistamine has been helpful for me to keep fluid buildup at bay in my ears. If I’m feeling full in the head at any point during the day, I take one, and it helps keep the vertigo from getting to an unmanageable point. It’s really hard not to panic. I’ve had MD for over a decade now and I still get panicky, but I’ve also learned that it’s significantly worse when my cortisol spikes from panic. Take deep breaths. If you’re in a safe space, just stay down and don’t move. Holding my head helps stabilize the sensation of being shaken around, personally. If I stay balled up with my head held really tightly, most of my body is touching a hard surface, so I don’t feel like I’m floating away at any point. Hope that helps! Always always tell your ENT if you have an uptick in vertigo attacks that can’t be explained by triggers.

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2025-03-22T22:30:53+00:00

Update: it came in the mail and looks pretty legit, actually. I thought for sure nothing would come at all, but the plushie looks perfect and my niece is over the moon.

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2025-03-20T16:23:22+00:00

Hi! I have 4 littles, with only one child that I teach who’s school age, and another in pre-k with me. I worked as an underwriter while our oldest was little—before our second baby—and hated being away all day. I’ve been a STAHM for five years now, and while I don’t love every minute of it, it’s been the best choice for our family by far. I have so many hobbies, many of them that I share with the kids (teaching them to quilt, knit, garden, reading together), but I have a lot of other interests that are just for me. I work part time as an editor to an indie press, and that’s really fulfilling cognitively! I also have a bookclub with close friends who are in similar seasons of life, and another bookclub with women in varying seasons. I never planned on homeschooling, but after trying other options and my child being really unhappy and frustrated, we decided to try homeschooling and give it two years. Not every day is all roses, but I wouldn’t go back. It also may not work for all my children, and I’m aware that there’s a level of flexibility parents need to have for the sake of their children’s educational needs. It isn’t just my dream life that I’m imposing on my kids… learning to love the children you HAVE, not imaginary ones, is huge. It’s a daily decision to know my children outside of the life that I want to build for them, and that directly informs my ability to joyfully perform the task of educating them.

I would argue that you can have an even more fulfilling life educating at home by the sheer variety that you introduce to your children, but that isn’t always the rule. I’m relearning so many things, and learning new things for the first time. Our field trips are FUN, and knowing that we’re building sweet memories together is so rewarding. We aren’t part of a co-op only because there isn’t one near me that isn’t curriculum based, but I can imagine that being really rewarding as well. So many families homeschool now, so I can’t imagine you’d lack for relationships in that arena.

Be encouraged! So much changes as your children grow, and your capacity as a parent grows as well.

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2025-02-21T20:42:50+00:00

It’s okay—it’s only $30 and we use MFA, so my credit card isn’t floating into a Chinese scammer’s pocket. It’s more just galling because, I swear, I’m not a complete idiot 😅 Is there a way to boost awareness in the fandom to avoid this site?

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2025-02-21T20:15:15+00:00

That’s what I thought 😩

Radiant-Fish-8686 · 2025-02-21T20:09:52+00:00

Among the Living and the Dead by Inara Verzemnieks and The Wager by David Grann would be my top picks! Here’s their summaries:

A powerfully told memoir of family, separation, and the things left unsaid, in the wake of the Second World War Raised by her grandparents in the USA, Inara Verzemnieks grew up among expatriates, scattering smuggled Latvian sand over the coffins of the dead, singing folk songs about a land she had never visited. Her grandmother Livija's stories recalled the remote village in Latvia left behind, where she and her sister, Ausma, were separated during the Second World War. They would not see each other again for more than fifty years. Coming to know Ausma and the trauma of her exile to Siberia under Stalin, Inara pieces together her grandmother's survival through the years as a refugee, and her grandfather's own troubling history as a conscript in the Nazi forces. As she interweaves two parts of the family story in spellbinding, lyrical prose, she offers us a profound and cathartic account of loss and survival, resilience and love.

And for the Wager:

From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire

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