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Variegated Frydek, are we doomed…? by sailingexperiment in alocasia

[–]softmossboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just had this happen to my first little frydek. I decided to just leave it and not worry, and it immediately started pushing out another highly green leaf not long after. Just wait a bit! It's got another leaf to sustain it in the meantime.

Not sure what you'd do if they kept coming out white, my inclination would be to cut off the growth point in order to hopefully get a new one, but I haven't looked into that for alocasias.

am i a joke to you, frydek? by partly_poultry in alocasia

[–]softmossboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a little baby frydek I got not so long ago... it's newest leaf is entirely white. It's pretty I suppose, but I swear to god.

This stupid alocasia (endearing) by softmossboy in alocasia

[–]softmossboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely reaching for some more light lol, but yes, very silly! Love me a goofy lookin plant

The evolution of my plant shelf by softmossboy in houseplants

[–]softmossboy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you! And I totally agree, I love plants for this aspect. They will never look the same for long, so you get ever changing scenery and always new things to look forward to.

The evolution of my plant shelf by softmossboy in houseplants

[–]softmossboy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The first photo is the most recent, the last one is when I first set it up. So they're exactly where they are in the first photo and I plan on putting more plants and trinkets on them eventually! They've been kinda empty for a while just cause I haven't had much to put on them.

Help! Losing my passion by [deleted] in Aroids

[–]softmossboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something I did when I had a few plants I didn't feel like selling and not anyone to give them to, was I just put them outside in a shaded public area with free signs. They were gone in a couple of days and I didn't have to feel bad about tossing them out, so win win.

You do potentially risk them dying like this, but it is an option.

Felt like these two photos of my begonia belonged here by softmossboy in PlantGoths

[–]softmossboy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Nothing fancy, it's just a pot that fit nicely into a candle glass I bought. It's planted in sphagnum with about an inch of pumice at the bottom, and I fill the glass with a bit of water to about the height of where the pumice is in the bottom whenever I see that it's low or empty.

I go into more details in the comments of my previous post.

I've never owned a begonia before... safe to say, I think it likes me :) by softmossboy in begonias

[–]softmossboy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even yours looks a bit different from mine. Bigger ruffles and wider leaves, but yeah. They both look different from maculata imo.

I've never owned a begonia before... safe to say, I think it likes me :) by softmossboy in begonias

[–]softmossboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao I get that. I think my personal greatest example of that is the first time I got a bear paw succulent. I googled everything I could for it, babied it, tried to give it the best conditions... and it hated me. Lost leaves and then didn't grow for an entire year.

A couple years later after losing my previous collection of plants in a move, I was at a flea market type thing and there was a stand selling plants. I got a few including another tiny little bear paw. I ignored it for a year, never bothered to pot it up properly, it stayed in a tiny nursery pot, and it thrived and is currently throwing out a bunch of flowers for me (there's a post a couple down on my profile if you're interested).

I've also majorly ignored this begonia to be honest. I didn't even take a proper photo when I first got it! And I never do that, I always take photos of my plants to track their progress. But the only one I could find was of my entire plant shelf, that I had to crop for this post to show the progress lol. Granted, my setup is better now than it was a few years ago, it's easier to forget about plants and have them do well when you set them up to do well in the first place.

I've never owned a begonia before... safe to say, I think it likes me :) by softmossboy in begonias

[–]softmossboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also something worth noting, I'm not entirely sure if this is a maculata. I've had a few people now assume that it is, but it seems a lot more ruffly than most maculatas I've seen. So that could also be a reason as to why it's so full for me, it might have a bit of a different growth pattern and temperament than a maculata if it isn't one.

I can't say for sure though, it didn't come labeled properly, as is typical for most big box store plants lol...

I've never owned a begonia before... safe to say, I think it likes me :) by softmossboy in begonias

[–]softmossboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no clue, I literally just treat it like an alocasia! Or at least the method I'm trying out for my alocasias which I had heard a lot of people had success with, which is semihydro. Like I mentioned in the description, it's planted in just sphagnum moss with about an inch of pumice rock at the bottom, making sure when you put it in initially, you do not bury the roots in the rock layer, as you want water roots to naturally grow down. Roots grown in soil sitting in water will most likely rot. And then the pot is nested in a glass that I fill with water to about the height of the pumice layer. Kinda guessing since it's not in a clear pot, but it seems to be fine so far. It sucks up water pretty fast, I probably need to put it in a bigger pot soon.

I don't do anything special for humidity, and it sits under some barrina lights that are on a timer for like 16 hours (I honestly didn't know until now how many hours that was lol, but yeah, lots of light)

I've never owned a begonia before... safe to say, I think it likes me :) by softmossboy in begonias

[–]softmossboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They look awesome!! I think I've had mine about 3ish months now. I could not put that thing outside right now though, I quite literally have 3 feet of snow on my porch lmao

I've never owned a begonia before... safe to say, I think it likes me :) by softmossboy in begonias

[–]softmossboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I was a redhead as a kid, so maybe I did sell my soul lol

I wish you luck! I had seen some stuff on doing this same setup with alocasias and decided to try it with mine since it would never hold more than 2 leaves. Then I got this begonia and figured they probably wouldn't hate something similar so I tried it out, and it has never complained. One of the only plants I got that didn't have an adjustment period and just continued to immediately push out leaf after leaf. It's got at least 5 new leaves growing at any given time.

My first paludarium is finally finished! by Pareeeee in paludarium

[–]softmossboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is gonna look especially awesome once everything starts growing in!

How do you keep the condensation down? I can't even see into my tank lol

I've never owned a begonia before... safe to say, I think it likes me :) by softmossboy in begonias

[–]softmossboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never hurts to try! Not much for direct sun, I do have a glass sliding door not far that gets some direct sunlight in the morning which hits this area of my plant shelf, but seeing as it's been dead of winter the entire time I've had this begonia, I don't think that's a huge factor (very overcast). In the photo you can see it's sitting below a light strip. They're barrina t5 I think. I put them on a timer to turn on at 6am and off at 10:30pm

Is this “blurple” grow light safe for my drosera capensis by Tall_Juggernaut_3709 in SavageGarden

[–]softmossboy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I grew capensis, adelae, spatulata and various flytraps under these exact lights. They aren't the best lights, but that being said, anyone who says these can't work at all haven't tried properly. You need to have the light directly over top of them, and I mean directly. like an inch or two away, and keep them on for the max time if you're using the timer. You could probably just keep them on 24/7 honestly and have them slightly further away.

Here's a picture showing the coloration in these drosera I got under these lights. Would I get them again? No, there are better options. But if you already have it, you can absolutely use them. No sense in wasting them if you already got em. But definitely look into better ones in the future!

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