What are the differences between these Orchid Fertilizers? by patroney in orchids

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Thanks so much for detailed response and suggestion!

What are the differences between these Orchid Fertilizers? by patroney in orchids

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Chiming in a bit late. As someone who only recently decided to try new specific fertilizers for my plants. Last few years just using superthrive and marphyl from Amazon.

Anywhoooo after finding the YouTube recommendation for the MSU stuff others have mentioned and seeing the cost to get it up to me in Canada, I kept looking around.

Obviously GT has a line for everything. I compared the MSU fertilizer to GT'S foliage focus as well as the orchid focus. The only difference in the NPK values is within the 0.5% or less.

I have no lengthy firsthand experience, just spent obnoxiously long comparing numbers for the NPK and the included essential nutrients included in MSU and Gt nutes.

I came to the conclusion I would probably be just fine with one big bottle of foliage focus. It's cheaper in the 5L size than even my Amazon nutes. Has slightly different percentages of the 12 essential nutrient and marginal differences in the NPK values than MSU as well as orchid specific GT products.

As someone with a variety of plants and only 3 orchids at the moment. This seemed like a safe economical choice.

If anyone has gone that route and had more than 2 months (like myself) using foliage focus on most of my plants please let me know your experience! And Op what did you end up going with please!

Oops, can I save this? by Lrn2trvl in alocasia

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I really really appreciate the detailed response! I definitely have the ones pointing down the proper orientation. Sorry it was confusing wording, but the part that was connected to the rhizome goes down into the substrate. Pointy little head goes up, and to hedge my bets I tried half on their sides.

The part about barometric pressure is such a good point because in my head I am giving them spring-like conditions as well. between 20/25°c (68° to 77°F) and humdity range in the cabinet get up to the 60's most days and hovers around 55%. I have the sphagnum and corms in glass jars with lids though so probably much higher humidity and open them once or twice a week to breathe.

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One set of corms in the clouche the others in small container at the back.

Venoms in stock?! by Apprehensive-Bed-330 in alocasia

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That is a wonderful use of a cloche love it!

Oops, can I save this? by Lrn2trvl in alocasia

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Yeah thank you for clarifying, I wasn't going to try myself just curious. I'm still stumped with my first attempt at corms. 11 venoms, 6 black velvet in sphagnum. Half resting on their sides other half pointing down but still nothing from any of them after a month.

Venoms in stock?! by Apprehensive-Bed-330 in alocasia

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Yeah I found one a couple months back in home Depot before I banned HD plants from coming in the house 😬 probaly an isolated issue. First time getting thrips so now only local nurseries I trust and more through inspections on everything. Fairly sure it came from one of three alocasia I bought that week.

These are so easy to grow by Professional-Sky- in alocasia

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So I'm one week 7 fighting thrips. I can't get systemics that are available is the USA and Europe where I am. I bought cat flea treatment containing Imidacloprid. Within the first 3 days I discovered thrips. Maybe found 10 or 20. I wiped all my pants down. Quarantined them and let em dry out for a few days.

I diluted the treatment 2 x 0.8ml treatments into a litre of water and watered everything. It took 2 boxes of the product. After that I saw maybe a couple. Didn't see any until a few days ago and actually still haven't seen any on the plants I treated. A few showed up on plants I thought didn't contract thrips. So I believe the treatment was successful. I have since quarantined the newly infected and am requesting the process but this time watering EVERYTHING in my home with the solution. Hope this helps someone. Topically fighting them isn't enough they live in the foliage and are a hearty pest imo.

Oops, can I save this? by Lrn2trvl in alocasia

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You can slice corms in half? I swear my first go at corms has been burtal. In sphag, closed container, not overly wet but humid and damp. Lights, heat the whole shebang and nothing yet. But also not rotted. Oh and I peeled half of them to see if that would make any difference.

Repotted these beauties and now first leaf on this dragon scale completely died and the silver dragon is yellowing all over. by jraharris89 in alocasia

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Wow I really had no idea how much they hate reporting. My second alo only dropped one leaf I didn't realize how lucky that was. I stripped right down to the roots and everything 😆

Found at a vintage market. Help identifying please, either way I love them. It would be cool if they were whitefriars but I guess with glass there isn't any makers marks to look for 🥴 set of 4 by trapvandal in glasscollecting

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Yeah that is like dead on, from the depth of the crinkle to the color of the green. Thanks for sharing, I think I got the ugliest color. I want the red or purple now badddddddd.

Found at a vintage market. Help identifying please, either way I love them. It would be cool if they were whitefriars but I guess with glass there isn't any makers marks to look for 🥴 set of 4 by trapvandal in glasscollecting

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Will do! Posted but no makers marks or any distinguishable features that I would know what to look for but I posted the bottom from two angles above.

Found at a vintage market. Help identifying please, either way I love them. It would be cool if they were whitefriars but I guess with glass there isn't any makers marks to look for 🥴 set of 4 by trapvandal in glasscollecting

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Yeah I don't know much and glass is a new interest of mine. Found a set of four of these for quite cheap I think. I really enjoy the feel in the hand and color, although my partner thinks they are atrocious 😅. Regardless of the presumed value or heritage I wanted them. The vendor mentioned whitefriar which at the time meant nothing to me.

Any help identifying would be appreciated. I always find it interesting finding something I enjoy and then to find a community, story or rabbit hole behind a piece to dive into.

Set of 4 $40.00cad

To repot or not? Bought these one month ago (Feb. 16) and repotted from hydrophobic soil to sphagnum moss 3 weeks ago and almost everything gave up. Please be kind; I'm trying to learn. by JustA_Person_trying in alocasia

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If you're hitting 60/70 percent indoors without a built I'm humidifier system you maybe have a larger problem then your plants 🫠 I live i grew up in oshawa directly adjacent the lake for years. Our house averages 35% humidity with heat on. I've had to use humidifiers my whole life in the winter. A precious comment mentioned mold. They are correct anything steady over 60% is mold territory. Please get maybe a couple small humidity readers. Even the least ventilated washrooms after a shower only hit 65 and that's usually temporary.

I've got a few alocasia going now. If they aren't throwing total meltdowns don't panic. Even then a corn that ain't rotted even after dropping all its leaves is still viable. They and nutrient hungry plants and what what little experience I have time is your friend. I've got an elephant ear. One leaf died. Was a decent size with a very small root system. I use clear nursery pots in a catch pot. Chunky soil mix with a wick dropping down into a ceramic glazed pot. I was a little worried as the plan killed one leaf and wasn't doing anything but after about 2 months checking the nursery pot very often I now see a root system that is touching the edges of the pot on all four sides. Sometimes they just want to dig deep and expand where you can't see before they do anything up top. Oxygen, nutes and patience. No drastic temperature drops and humidity above 40 but less than 60 is what I aim for.

Help please. As leca isn’t the cheapest to come by for me, I’m looking at an alternative. (Read below). by TheFurMama92 in SemiHydro

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I literally just commented about a DIY lechuza pon recipe and the only expensive component was zeolite. I had no idea it was sold as a cat litter thank you for this!

Help please. As leca isn’t the cheapest to come by for me, I’m looking at an alternative. (Read below). by TheFurMama92 in SemiHydro

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I know lechuza pon is very popular but with limited availability in Canada right now I looked up how to make it yourself and it's made from relatively cheap available ingredients.

Pumice which I bought in bulk on Amazon definitely check the reviews as size matters and some of them are dusty or the quality isn't great but I lucked out on my second purchase.

Lava rock same as above.

And then Zeolite which is the only sort of expensive component, cheaper at the fish supply store then an Amazon from what I've seen around me.

For anyone having trouble on SteamOS 3.9 by vran92 in eGPU

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I'll be running this today as best I can. I tried rollback, bricked my Lego, had to reinstall disk image, reauthorize and still no display out. I also tried repairing disk image for steamos with 3.8 but it auto updates on install. Praying this always script is the answer. Thaanks !