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@aruzinsky lovely!!! Do the miniature bananas taste just like the larger version? I luv bananas (hope I spelt it correctly/lol).
Yes. But, I have another variety, dwarf Namwah. that tastes slightly sour.
An interesting fact about bananas is that the sap, which is colorless, produces a brown stain on clothes when it dries that is impossible to remove by conventional means such as laundry bleach.
Nepenthes is a genus of tropical carnivorous plants. Insects are caught and digested in pitchers at the end of tendrils that are also used for climbing. Here is an unidentified species shortly after I bought it at Home Depot, for $12.99, in 2018:
Here is its flower in 2020:
Recently, I rooted four cuttings and did an experiment in which I applied a gibberellic acid solution to developing pitchers. The largest pitcher in the following was thus treated:
here are a few of my indoor babes ๐ฑ i'd love to see how yours grows @Anonymous! share photo updates periodically, if you can ๐
monstera ginny (also might be a philodendron? i dunno - it was labeled as a monstera ginny)
golden pothos (fairly new, very excited for her to start vining!)
spider with plantlets and an air plant
@Anonymous
I have an orchid (currently in bloom), a jade plant and Iโm not sure what the large one is; but I do know it is 24 years old! It started as a small plant, among others, in a dish garden.
@Anonymous wrote:I would luv to see pictures? ๐
@LindaB671 wrote:
I have an orchid (currently in bloom), a jade plant and Iโm not sure what the large one is; but I do know it is 24 years old! It started as a small plant, among others, in a dish garden.
๐ฅ๐ฅLol, found it @LindaB671 ๐คฃ๐ Any UPDATES or pictures? No pressure as usual ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฅ
that orchid is gorgeous @LindaB671! i see lots of roots - do you have it in potting medium? also, 24 years is incredible! i hope i have plant that old someday. i don't have kids, i just have plants and a dog ๐
@AARPRachelA I really like your plants, especially the climbing one and the air plant. No, I do not have the orchid in a planting medium. I just water it occasionally. ๐ฑ
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