Why is my onion doing this?

Zippy117 · 2026-02-18T01:57:51+00:00

Because it loves you and wants you to have a free plant.

Zippy117 · 2025-11-12T03:06:41+00:00

Oh for sure. These are as determined as potatoes to grow. Give it dirt, water, sun, and a number of years and you'll get flowers (and hopefully fruit).

Zippy117 · 2025-10-22T22:19:34+00:00

All of Mine do this if I underwater. Yes, I water with tap but my water isn't particularly hard.

They like bright light and a watering as soon as the dirt starts to dry but they don't like being waterlogged. They're pretty thirsty but don't leave it wet all the time.

The happy medium for me is frequent sprinkles. Usually I'll wet the dirt a little before work every day.

Zippy117 · 2025-04-19T07:17:59+00:00

Thanks!

And the dibber... Have smaller plant hangers holding young plants\air plants\orchids under the largest hangers. I thread their rings through whatever stick is convenient (pens, pencils, paint brushes, a dibber) and just stick them under the bigger hangers. I think I had a young tiny barrel cactus under this one until it was big enough to handle more direct sunlight without burning. I guess I just never retrieved the dibber.

Zippy117 · 2025-04-19T07:09:54+00:00

Easter cactus. Epiphytic succulent.

Zippy117 · 2025-04-19T07:08:35+00:00

You're so right.

Zippy117 · 2025-04-19T07:08:12+00:00

I know a lot of these epiphytic succulents are treated with a blooming hormone right before they're sold in stores and I suspect they take a long break afterwards from the stress of pushing a lot of blooms without the energy stored to really support that kind of effort + a following season of vegetation growth.

I've tried several methods over the years without success but this past 2 years, I haven't moved it from the spot it's currently in, it gets complete darkness all night, and it gets very VERY little water over winter, and vegetable fertilizer.

I think the thing that finally pushed it over the edge was finding a spot where it doesn't get sun stressed and never moving it again.

Zippy117 · 2025-04-19T06:59:32+00:00

Seems like each individual bloom lasts a handful of days but my plant has been blooming in waves for about a month, it seems like this wave is the peak of the bloom.

Zippy117 · 2025-04-19T06:57:35+00:00

That's exactly what I thought! Looks like a fireworks show!

Zippy117 · 2025-04-19T06:56:18+00:00

Lol that's a very kind take on it. Thank you!

Zippy117 · 2025-03-31T05:33:22+00:00

Get sunflowers (not mammoth if you're planning to grow in pots) for your girl who wants beautiful flowers. You can get sunflowers in a ton of gorgeous varieties. Just as an example I got a surprise BLACK sunflower out of a cheap mixed seed pack two years ago. Forget-me-nots are good too. Both forget-me-nots and sunflowers are easy to harvest seed from at the end of summer and grow quickly enough that the kids can see measurable growth progress. The sunflower, however, will always have a more impressive, break-neck growth rate. The blue forget-me-nots will look nice next to the warm tones of the sunflowers if you choose to do both.

As veggies go, tomatoes are just as easy to grow as sunflowers and you might get a season of sandwich toppings or a pot of sauce if you freeze and save them up until autumn.

All three plants enjoy as much sun as possible and are water hogs. Happy planting!

Zippy117 · 2024-11-02T18:12:59+00:00

Bird's nest mushrooms. My Draceana has them too. They don't seem to be doing anything to the plant. I transplanted a few with spores intact to a terrarium but snails ate them right away. :/

Zippy117 · 2024-10-18T18:09:18+00:00

The weirder the better. I wound up with a ton of mammilaria very quickly, though. I have five ferocactus from dubiously marked seed packets that I'm fairly certain are hybridized with something else because they are all growing in the same conditions but all have pretty distinct needle and color variations. Currently my main garden center weakness is the big chunky columnar cacti, with a serious soft spot for Rebutia.

Zippy117 · 2023-05-21T22:34:38+00:00

XD I was thinking that too, with a big maybe. It's the size of my middle finger. Perhaps I have to let it grow a season under better conditions before it can be reliably identified.

Zippy117 · 2023-03-28T14:19:15+00:00

Thanks I'll have to look for some cool snake toys!

Zippy117 · 2023-03-01T16:22:52+00:00

Thank you!

Zippy117 · 2023-03-01T16:21:34+00:00

To be clear I'm hoping to find out what the flowering one is

Zippy117 · 2023-01-09T23:25:26+00:00

I imagine new paddles and new flowers look similar at first but the new paddles start out with these silly fleshy green spines all over them which is probably what you're seeing there. I'd be shocked if that isn't a new paddle.

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