tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post5986059132623016543..comments2024-03-27T07:35:21.832-07:00Comments on Plants are the Strangest People: Question for the Hive Mind: spontaneous terrarium plantmr_subjunctivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-21887020895604720962009-05-23T20:18:34.466-07:002009-05-23T20:18:34.466-07:00Ah but there is an ulterior motive for feeding you...Ah but there is an ulterior motive for feeding your crickets healthy food -- Nina gets healthier food. In the wild, she would get a wide range of insects -- which in turn would have fed on a wide range of food sources. The crickets one gets at the petshop are generally not well nourished ... potato being the most common food source used. Personally, I always feed my crickets fish flake food Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-21220346846662950802009-05-23T11:41:02.869-07:002009-05-23T11:41:02.869-07:00The crickets usually don't stay in the terrarium v...The crickets usually don't stay in the terrarium very long: she eats a dozen in about a week. I do occasionally put a bit of fruit in there for the long-term survivors. I do kind of draw the line at buying food for the food, though: maybe if we get a dog, I'll do dog food, but until then, the crickets are lucky to get what they get. <br /><br />Also there's not really a "cold" period in here, mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-43353241989586101062009-05-23T08:18:46.556-07:002009-05-23T08:18:46.556-07:00This has nothing to do with plants but rather the ...This has nothing to do with plants but rather the crickets and Nina:<br /><br />It might be wisest to snip off the ovipositors (as close to the body as possible) on any mature female crickets. I do this with a pair of small bladed scissors. The ovipositor is the long, black, needle-like structure extending back from the abdomen. Why do something so 'cruel'? The reasons are twofold:<br /><br /Paul;noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-17101771338684299872009-05-20T21:52:40.001-07:002009-05-20T21:52:40.001-07:00Beautiful terrarium.Beautiful terrarium.The Fern and Mosseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292141420061520883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-37630501305838628222009-05-20T12:31:13.468-07:002009-05-20T12:31:13.468-07:0010 gallons?!! Then how come it looks so much bigge...10 gallons?!! Then how come it looks so much bigger than mine?!! (Ahem. I mean, of course, then how does it happen that it appears to be so much larger and more spacious than my own 10-gallon terrarium, which looks lush and full with three puny plants?)our friend Benhttp://ourfriendben.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-5545040555321342152009-05-20T07:52:59.329-07:002009-05-20T07:52:59.329-07:00Impatiens would be my guess as well. I spend a lot...Impatiens would be my guess as well. I spend a lot of time pricking seedlings each spring, and I'm quite sure the Impatiens looked like that. And they do self-seed all over the place.<br />Oddly enough, I've found that the self-seeded ones, even if growing in deep shade under the greenhouse tables, look better than the ones <I>on</I> the tables!<br /><br />(Completely unrelated: Variegated Ivynettlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-52085117140520273642009-05-20T06:37:19.127-07:002009-05-20T06:37:19.127-07:00I don't know much about impatiens, but if you say ...I don't know much about impatiens, but if you say they were close to the calathea, that's probably it.<br /><br />But this post identified for me a plant I bought without a name a couple of weeks ago, the Podocarpus macrophyllus. I am very surprised to see it is actually a conifer and that it might grow, altough apparently slowy, up to many feet bigger than what I imagined. I'm about to plant it Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-80741362373123906342009-05-20T05:29:09.160-07:002009-05-20T05:29:09.160-07:00OFB:
10-gal.
sheila:
It's possible that it's a ...OFB:<br /><br />10-gal.<br /><br />sheila:<br /><br />It's possible that it's a double; we've had occasional "rosebud" impatiens pop up on the floor in that area. Although there weren't any double impatiens in that area this year (the ones coming up on the floor are seeds from 2008), the <I>Calathea</I> in question has wandered around enough that it may well have been in the vicinity of the mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-53536530035005653562009-05-20T05:15:12.282-07:002009-05-20T05:15:12.282-07:00Not a huge fan of run of the mill impatiens (I pre...Not a huge fan of run of the mill impatiens (I prefer variegated, doubles, or new guinea), but that looks like one to me.sheilanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-33799315991458887562009-05-20T03:14:51.677-07:002009-05-20T03:14:51.677-07:00I can neither confirm nor deny, but that seems lik...I can neither confirm nor deny, but that seems like a reasonable guess. How big is that terrarium, btw?our friend Benhttp://ourfriendben.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com