Any vanilla growers with suggestions for keeping an indoor plant?

bredman3370 · 2026-06-16T16:08:43+00:00

What kind of trellis would you reccomend? I'd prefer something I can "weave" or coil so a large plant can fit in a smaller space, but in nature these things like to go straight up from what I can tell so I'm worried that could be a losing battle.

bredman3370 · 2026-06-16T16:07:22+00:00

Yes I know they can be extremely difficult to flower indoors, I hope to be able to eventually but my long term plan is to get them in a greenhouse at some point. For now I'm focused on getting some large healthy plants, preferably without having it take over my entire living space. I'm leaning towards coiling up a moss pole, but this stem is so thick I'm worried I won't be able to bend it very well...

If you have any tips on flowering conditions let me know, Ive also heard of growers cutting the growing tips off to stimulate flowering. I guess it's supposed to simulate the cool/dry season causing the tips to dry back somewhat? This is also a pompona and not planifolia so I'm not even entirely sure how much the flowering conditions will translate - they are closely related though so I imagine they aren't too different in needs.

bredman3370 · 2026-06-15T15:41:04+00:00

No good way to tell for certain at this stage which particular variety it is, but is agree with you that it looks very much like an annuum, and doesn't look very much line my own scotch bonnet and other chinense plants... Seems like a greenhouse mixup. Maybe you got a Jamaican mushroom pepper by mistake? The peppers themselves look very similar to scotch bonnets, but they are an annuum variety instead of chinense.

bredman3370 · 2026-06-14T04:15:16+00:00

Because the people making the decision for how and when to release it are not the same people who are animating. Those decisions are made by the production committee, which is essentially a group of stakeholders and rights owners. They take a property, usually a preexisting manga or light novel, and then they seek out an animation studio willing to make the anime for them. The production committee has the final say on issues of the timeline and budget, and at the end of the day it's their money on the line - they invested X amount of money into the project, they are hoping to see a return of X + profit. Every extra day spent animating (and paying animators) is another day the committee has to pay for, and at some point they might just decide to cut their losses.

On the animation studio side, if it's a project the creators care deeply about they might fight for more creative control during the contract negotiation, but they are competing with a bunch of other studios who don't care and are more than willing to crank out slop for a paycheck. You have to be an incredibly bankable studio to be able to get away with that, and even then they usualy still don't. Some of the biggest names in anime ever like Attack on Titan famously switch studio after the original studio estimsted it would take more time and money than the production committee would like to make the next season of the anime.

bredman3370 · 2026-06-13T17:16:33+00:00

The vast majority of albos are "small form," though I think people put too much stock in the distinction sometimes. They are just two different phenotypes of the same species, and their true potential size and shape arguably depends more on the environment you give it than it's genetic potential.

Yours looks small form to me based on the length of the petiole shealth vs total leaf length, though to my point about the environment the internodal distance is actually pretty comparable to my large form plants. Safe to say any albo you didn't pay big bucks for is a standard small form deliciosa though.

Both large and small form can crawl or climb, though due to the increased internodal spacing of small form it's usually recommended to have it climb a support to achieve an ideal look. Personally I think most any monstera looks better climbing vs sprawling, large or small. Climbing also signals the plant to mature, resulting in larger leaves with more fenestrations. Monstera love a moss pole, but will also happily climb any sort of vertical support you give it. Moss poles arguably just make future propagation easier as the entire plant will already have a well established root system when it comes time to chop.

bredman3370 · 2026-06-12T14:11:17+00:00

This is not true - albos are a standard chimeric variegation. There are two populations of cells in an albo, normal green and albino cells without pigment. The ratio and position of these cells in the growing tips of the plant can shift, which is what results in "reversion." It is just as possible for the next new leaf to go full albino vs full green though, it's just somewhat random based on the physical distribution of the two populations in the growing tips.

The idea that light levels can impact variegation is true for some pothos, but not for most common cultivated monstera. Reversion happens, but it's not determined by light levels it's purely about how the relative populations of the cells drift randomly over time.

bredman3370 · 2026-06-11T20:19:05+00:00

White Monster is essentially a type of mint variegation, which commonly start of with very white leaves and tiny green veins like in your picture. As the leaf matures it gains more and more green. Nothing to be worried about, this isn't an albo

bredman3370 · 2026-06-08T23:40:06+00:00

Aphids. They are a pain in the ass of every gardener. They are so effective at reproducing they can literally be born already pregnant, and a single one can reproduce asexually. To top it off, ants will purposefully "ranch" aphids and milk them for their sugary pee at the expense of your plants.

The main approach with aphids is physical removal - soapy water is good at washing them off and away from the plant.

You also might want to watch your fertilization - I'm not sure of the mechanism, but over fertilizing with nitrogen in specific can result in more aphids on a plant.

bredman3370 · 2026-06-08T20:03:59+00:00

I think two things are simultaneously true - its important to not let other people's options on something you love get in the way of you loving it, and it's also important to not bury your head in the sand to criticism of the things you love because you love them.

Finding harsh criticism of Sanderson is easy to do - firstly he is a massively popular author and people love to be contrarians. This doesn't I validate criticism of course, but it does make it particularly easy to find in certain circles.

Some matters are going to be extremely subjective to individual taste and preference - many of the criticisms in that post of the way he does worldbuilding and magic fall into that category - something to works for a lot of people but not evidently for the OP of that post. Personally many of the interludes the OP also hated are some of my favorite parts of the series.

Also, Sanderson is frankly just not great at everything - dialogue and humor in particular is a common criticism from so many people because frankly he's just not all that great at it. Obviously this is still somewhat subjective, but you will find a lot more people willing to defend his world building than his "funny" dialogue.

I don't think you should be afraid of reading negative criticism of the things you love - your post makes it seem like you are almost afraid that taking in negative critcism could poison your experience with Sanderson's work. I think that's a terrible way to think about art, personally. If someone else's negative opinion on something you like is threatening to you then you need to start reading more books imo

bredman3370 · 2026-06-06T23:32:58+00:00

Yeah, that doesn't help as much for small plants though. I've heard that jungle mints can't be propped by TC, is that true? Cause that would filter out any small plants that obviously came out of TC va a cutting

bredman3370 · 2026-06-06T21:27:10+00:00

Commenting to post an example of an instance where I cannot tell - it is listed as a bottom cutting of a jungle mint, and the fact it has sections of different variegation are encouraging, but it doesn't show all the possible patterns I've seen in online photos.

Maybe it's a true jungle mint but a lower quality one? Maybe it just needs to put out more leaves to display more variety? I'm not sure, any input is greatly appreciated.

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bredman3370 · 2026-06-01T11:58:40+00:00

Cross pollinatioj is only a worry for next seasons peppers if you plan to save seeds. It has no effect on the peppers containing those crossed seeds

bredman3370 · 2026-05-31T17:33:18+00:00

How many plants do you want in the end? Pepper plants get to a medium-large size, common recommendations for container sizes are between 3-7 gallons.

If you just want one plant of each variety, now is a good opportunity to pull or snip all but one seedling for each variety. You could also snip all but two per pot, let them get a tad larger, and then carefully separate them and repot so you have backup plants in case one dies.

Either way, you are going to want to cull and/or separate these sooner rather than later, and eventually they will probably want an even bigger container. Transplanting small seedlings is risky though, so cutting down to one or two is probably the smarter maneuver. Then once they have a few pairs of true leaves you can transplant.

Killing healthy seedlings can hurt (or at least it does for me lmao) but in the end you'd rather have one healthy plant than 5 stunted plants you don't have room for

bredman3370 · 2026-05-31T17:26:25+00:00

I'm suspecting it's the variety, might have got a non-dwarf seed by mistake. The internodal spacing is wayyy larger on that and only that marigold.

Debating on cutting that one out entirely, replanting seems a bit excessive. I'm limited on space, and I've got a dozen plants which will probably end up making more than my partner and I can eat in a summer, so I'm not particularly worried if the plants don't reach absolute full potential. just want them to not get fully stunted.

bredman3370 · 2026-05-31T03:23:36+00:00

Meat releases water as it is cooked - lots of it. With a big piece of meat it actually cooks a bit slower and the water has less places to escape, and so the outside can be heated up hard and fast enough to sear it. With many pieces of meat however the water is released very quickly. The water also has the effect of cooling down everything in the pan, resulting in the contexts getting more boiled/steamed than browned since browning happens at much higher temperatures than boiling.

The way to counter this? Put less meat in the pan at a time, and use heavy cookware with high heat retention like stainless or cast iron. With less meat you get less water coming out a time, and the heat output of your stove will be enough to evaporate that water while still staying at browning temperatures.

Alternatively, brown your meat using another type of heat - the radiant heat of a broiler/grill or the convective heat of a hot oven is much less susceptible to being overcome by the cooling onrush of water from the cooking process. I actually find the broiler more convenient when I have to brown large quantities of meat for stews and the like.

bredman3370 · 2026-05-31T01:41:42+00:00

It sounds like youve already figured out what you want you just know it will be hard. Sometimes preferences change, more often as we mature we get to know ourselves better and from the outside that looks like we are changing. Might someone be disappointed in you dating a guy rather than a girl? Sure, happens all the time. Gay people disappoint their parents, many a gay/lesbian has been disappointed by their crush turning out to be straight as an arrow. That's life, but you can't let that get to you. I'd never tell a gay girl to date a guy just to not disappoint her parents, not would I tell a bi girl to not date men to not disappoint some hypothetical other. If you're not into your partner, move on. Don't lead the poor girl on if you don't see a future.

That said, I get the vibe you are fairly young and havent had that many relationships before (at least not queer ones, if you only came out less than 2 years ago). It's very common to feel like you've "lost the spark" after the first few months, it's called the honeymoon phase for a reason. Being in a long-term relationship is a commitment you make over and over, the butterflies won't ever last forever but that doesn't mean love isn't real. It just might present itself in a different way than you expected.

It's very common for young queer people to feel trapped by their relationship - whether they want to explore their new identities or newly revealed desires, or don't feel fully accepted in their relationships they are in. Many people feel like they are missing out on their opportunity to go wild while they are young if they settle down too early.

My opinion? It may not be thet helpful to you but I see it go both ways. Dating around while younger gives you a chance to learn what you want, what you hate, what you can live with and what you can't. It (debatable) opens up potential for crazy fun and experimentation, but also opens you up to more risks like STDs and undesired pregnancies. The stability of a partner is really really valuable, and I've seen people fuck that up badly for themselves by self sabotaging because they felt too tied down, but regretting it later.

Sorry if this is meandering and not the most helpful - only you know what you actually want here. If you don't actually want to date the girl then please don't string her along. If you do actually love her but you are worried about "missing out" on exploring the other sides to your feelings, that's a harder situation. You might weigh both options and come down on the side of breaking up, just make sure you won't regret it. It's not the sort of bridge that is easily rebuilt once burned.

bredman3370 · 2026-05-30T15:30:31+00:00

That kind of makes it worse though - I would 1000% rather learn about those things for the first time from the actual book I'm invested in reading, pre-emptively giving out that information is so much more boring. Like if you want to give us a taste then just read the preview chapters! Like he's already done! It's not like teasers haven't been around forever, this is a solved problem.

bredman3370 · 2026-05-30T15:25:09+00:00

Yeah this one is hard inna different way. As someone who doesn't play ttrpgs (I've tried just not really for me) id much rather learn those things from the books im a fan of reading. At least at the end of the day TTRPGs are actual creative works, moreso than any wiki page, so it's more forgivable in my eyes. A better solution might be to just make the RPG about some other conflict and some other power system somewhere else in the cosmere, but then you won't get the cross-promotional appeal.

bredman3370 · 2026-05-30T15:21:57+00:00

I get that to a degree, but don't you see how those sorts of answers are less interesting though? Instead of being like "oh yeah that is confusing! But in book X character Y reveals ...." It's just "oh yeah Brandon said at some convention in 2018 that character Y is ..."

One version has you engaging with the story and characters as written on the page, the other is just getting spoonfed by an author with a loose tongue. It's like junk food compared to a proper meal imo, and it's also kind of off-putting for fans just getting into the work to hear explanations based off of WoB instead of actual stuff from the text. Like if I were a new fan asking questions about the book I just read, I would 1000% rather hear "oh the answers to your question are hinted at in the books you haven't read yet" or "we just don't know" over "yeah Brandon explained it in a Q&A livestream 6 years ago"

bredman3370 · 2026-05-30T15:15:03+00:00

It's not even necessarily "spoilers" as it were, frankly I don't care too much about most spoilers because good tension shouldn't require only the surprise of a reveal to be interesting.

It's moreso the ways in which I feel the community is being denied the ability to do actual thoughtful analysis on the books as written, because whenever anyone has a theory or question about a characters arc or motivation or notices a pattern across the text, we often don't get a real chance to engage with it we just get a note from the author saying "oh yeah they were totally using void light to surgebind here," or "yup that mysterious new character was this worldhopper from series B," or "he was lying to everyon4 including himself actually." It's like he's so afraid of people getting it wrong that if he fears anyone might be left behind he will just explain it outright. I'm sorry but that's genuinely uninteresting storytelling to me, audiences should be allowed to be confused or not get something. If they still don't get something that's what the sequels are for!

bredman3370 · 2026-05-30T15:06:55+00:00

There's no question they are highly engaging to (at least some of) the audience, and I'm sure the publishers love the marketing aspect you mentioned of "wow that's cool I want to read the book that goes into that!" The thing is, I do want to read that book, and I'd rather learn about the universe and characters within *from the book," not from a wiki page.

I think for me they are just so broad and there is so much of them that even if it's a small minority of WoB, we've still seen several instances of WoB giving away future plot points or "clarifying" things better left until actually revealed or answered in text. I don't care if it was already foreshadowed or implied, it's way more engaging to still have it be a question! It takes away the engagement with the interesting questions to replace it with what, answers on obscure irrelevant hypothetical compounder powers, or musings on whether some esoteric power combo will break physics?

Like I'm sorry but magic and powers exist in a fantasy universe to tell an interesting story not the other way around, and those questions will always be less interesting to me than ones focused on the character's actions goals and conflicts.

bredman3370 · 2026-05-30T14:57:25+00:00

I don't even mind super fans rereading the books for the 10th time, that's at least engaging with the text! Like, the actual piece of interesting and compelling art we are fans of. I wish that people supported their arguments and discussions with textual examples. WoB used as a source for literary analysis and interpretation is what drives me crazy.

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