tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post7056296056604971908..comments2024-03-27T07:35:21.832-07:00Comments on Plants are the Strangest People: Memorial Day: Late Entriesmr_subjunctivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-72570393220109447232009-07-13T01:33:57.409-07:002009-07-13T01:33:57.409-07:00Looks like you could use these plant pokes I came ...Looks like you could use these plant pokes I came across a few weeks ago:<br /><br />http://dearlydepotted.com/about.htm<br /><br />click epitaph choices in the sidebar to read what they say :)Laurie in Mainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06022126513010116196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-39451119348980199102009-07-12T19:56:15.748-07:002009-07-12T19:56:15.748-07:00Spider mites are the only pest I have problems wit...Spider mites are the only pest I have problems with. I finally gave up on the ivies and now I've had to add Primula to the list of things I just cannot own. That's okay; it's all very Darwinian at my house.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12589473046882217457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-88921127303382820442009-07-09T09:49:52.881-07:002009-07-09T09:49:52.881-07:00Thankfully I've only had to deal with mealy bu...Thankfully I've only had to deal with mealy bugs once and it was a small sighting on one plant. Here's what I did - throw out old potting medium - soak plant with rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle. Rinse. Spray with End-all II. let dry. Repot in new soil and keep isolated. It looks to me that the plant survived (minus a few leaves) and the mealy did not. The plant is still in isolation Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347983770474369842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-32716150421564205042009-07-08T18:48:00.785-07:002009-07-08T18:48:00.785-07:00I occasionally get mealies on my cacti but it'...I occasionally get mealies on my cacti but it's rarely more than one at a time and... actually, I've never had an outbreak. Just a stray mealy bug show up from time to time. Weird.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-61199757506503350042009-07-08T07:56:31.426-07:002009-07-08T07:56:31.426-07:00Mealybugs are about the only pest I don't have...Mealybugs are about the only pest I <i>don't</i> have right now (though I'm not sure about Thrips). I might soon get some, though, if I do ... ahem... aquire some <i>Codiaeum variegatum</i> cuttings at work. Just to, you know, increase the biodiversity in my home!Ivynettlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-41206767314455231202009-07-08T07:22:11.128-07:002009-07-08T07:22:11.128-07:00Good lord, if I'd been doing that through the ...Good lord, if I'd been doing that through the current round of plant obsession, I'd now have like 300 plant pictures on the wall (about 160-170 that actually died, and then almost as many that were given away or sold or whatever).<br /><br />And yeah, I didn't end up losing as many as I'd thought I would. Though I'm not sure the move counts as being <i>over</i> until I have a mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-74867497926617375632009-07-08T07:14:15.826-07:002009-07-08T07:14:15.826-07:00I hadn't really planned to do the memorializin...I hadn't really planned to do the memorializing thing as an ongoing feature, but these were close enough to the previous Memorial Day post, time-wise, and the first two were also probably casualties of the move like those in the previous post, so, you know. I actually find it kind of depressing/unpleasant to have pictures of dead plants on the blog, unless they've died in some really mr_subjunctivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14113199755474482747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-48537358742348479662009-07-08T07:12:48.036-07:002009-07-08T07:12:48.036-07:00You could have a little plaque somewhere - dead pl...You could have a little plaque somewhere - dead plants I have known! I still think you did well considering the move.Hermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00968366076064269729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481706068105246695.post-55492671896932462722009-07-08T05:02:48.377-07:002009-07-08T05:02:48.377-07:00How come it never occurred to me to memorialize my...How come it never occurred to me to memorialize my dead-and-gone plants - even though at one point in my life I had a wall papered with rejection slips? As for mealybugs (and scale) I've fought and fought to save treasured plants until I realized I'm too old to spend my golden years battling them. Now, at first sign of them - and of spider mites - it's into the compost and out. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com