u/LaundryMan2008

I’m grafting a standard maple branch that happens to have verigated leaves onto a large decorative maple tree that makes red leaves so the type is matched but I’m worried my quick graft might fail, I decided to slap it on the tree when getting rid of some ivy so I didn’t do a great job on it.

it‘s now wrapped in electrical tape which I read is really good at keeping light out and securing things tightly as I didn’t have the specific stuff on hand, I can always undo it as I put it on yesterday and recut the edge as there’s quite a bit of air in the graft if I can tighten the gap a bit more.

I had my first propagation in soil, failed miserably very quickly with the leaves drying out so I’m trying again in water, so far the plant has survived longer but do I keep it in direct sunlight or move it away to keep it safe, I’ve had it for 5 days now no roots but leaves are still healthy.

I’d love to bonsai it into a small plant or turn it into a miniature tree (similar to bonsai but just pruning) if I can when the prop succeeds.

It looks like a massive leaf chewed on by a caterpillar but the sides are all completely smooth, a weird find like many others here

Sorry about the low quality, I wonder how unnerving it would be to find fasciated leaves with fluff going in many directions.

I’m from the UK where they are native, when we find it, we like to always touch the leaves because of how soft they are, great for the bees and has many uses.

Hasn’t rooted in two days but isn’t dying yet unlike my first soil prop so it’s already doing a lot better

Obligatory I know it’s not a LaserDisc however at least part of the technology was used on the Plasmon LaserDrive disks so I’m just asking here figuring it won’t hurt.

The optical disk cartridges use a glass substrate (the surface material of the disk like plastic for regular LaserDiscs) which sandwiches a thin layer of Tellerium Oxide which gets ablated during writing by a separate powerful laser, it’s a one time process which means whatever is written on the disk remains there forever making it a WORM disk for archival storage which outlines the basic technology of these disks, others use more complicated materials, substrates and technologies which I won’t explain here to keep it simple.

The question is, if I just got a disk that has rot and is unusable or can I carefully disassemble the optical disk cartridge and clean the glass disc itself, I’m thinking to use window cleaner (Windowlene) or if there’s a better thing to use to minimize streaks or smudges as the technology is very old and has very little error correction as compared to current optical technologies, if the “rot“ is actually underneath the surface then please let me know as to my untrained eye it looks like a whole bunch of dust and fingerprints that I can easily clean off carefully.

Either ways I got this disk extremely cheap compared to what they usually go for (£20 instead of £200) so if it’s rotted, I don’t mind as I don’t have a drive for it anyways and it will help as practice towards my future enterprise data storage media transfer company that I would open up in the future, would be nice to restore this optical disk cartridge so in the very rare eventuality I get a drive, I hopefully should have the correct disk for it as LM4000, LM6000 and LM8000 share the same optical disk cartridge form factor and missing the label doesn’t help in identifying it so if anyone has a keen eye, I would like to know if I’ve missed an identifying mark somewhere which I’ll probably find when I open it up.

Thanks everyone for your help in advance!

Likely some infection or disease which probably isn’t conducive to growing wheat which is where I found it at a wheat field on a lookalike plant to hogweed (not quite sure but not touching it anyways), it had other regular green leaves and then some deep red verigated ones attached to the same plant closer to the flowers.

Putting down pathology because it looks like disease related, I don’t own the field, work, farm or in any other way affiliated with the farmers so I won’t be removing that infected plant if it’s truly heinous, I would inform the farmer though (I’m not that horrible) so they can go and remove it themselves.

I’ve only seen a very minor fasciation with a daisy, only wider by 0.5mm, very very slight while this branch is just mutated, correct me if there’s a species of brambles that does this or if it’s standard growth.

More information and facts will follow when I receive it as well as some archived websites if I’m lucky, I don’t know what capacity it is, if it’s LM4000, LM6000 or LM8000 but I will find out either once I get it or by someone’s advice, I will also be making reproduction labels to make it complete again so if someone has high detail photos of the labels I can then reproduce them if it will even fit on a sheet of A4 lmao.

I am very excited to have found a rare piece of data storage media for a really cheap price (just £23 with postage), definitely has a beautiful disk inside that I will be staring at for a long time, in fact reading about the company, I actually live close to their now defunct pressing factory which is interesting in itself but unusually I haven’t found any disks in that time cheaply in the wild, I also know that the hospital that helps me with my Cochlear Implants still uses these disks on a special contract for archiving patient info which I find very interesting.

I like how the veins on the leaves look highlighted like on some houseplants, I’ve read you can’t prop it so it can’t be the next trending £800 plant leaf and node prop, I will be back frequently so I can see if the leaf darkens or stays the way it is.

The Sedum I found overgrowing a sign at a church parking lot, there was loads of it and the part I took was obscuring the sign so sooner or later the church gardeners/arborists would have that removed at some point so I didn’t fuss too much and grabbed a big handful which contained some angry ants in it, I will have a full box at some point soon, I read that if watered often enough, the “jelly bean” like leaves will blow up massively in size which will be interesting to see as well as it filling the box up nicely.

The other plant a Sempervivum cobweb plant I found at a National Trust nursery, the mother plants looked very big and healthy with a little one hanging off to the side with its umbilical cord dried out to a crisp, only moved the pot and it fell off while moving it out of the way to get better access to some fully black aeoniums that I was going to buy, the main plant was extremely healthy and it had the most rosettes on it so the loss of the smallest one doesn’t make a great impact on it, they would have thrown it away if it fell off so didn’t have much guilt as the location was more a touristy one, right now, its umbilical cord had detached on its own and sent out a thick red root when moving it from the aeonium’s pot to the box which means it has a big fighting chance to grow, I didn’t know it was supposed to have the webs so I was picking it off thinking it was some protective sheath the baby plants have to keep them safe that would fall off when they got older.

I will for sure be lifting any leaves (with permission) I find at the big shops in town when I finish my last exam, I’ll also pay a visit to the local smaller supermarkets as I have to dispose of some old electronics at one and run some errands at the other, I wonder what I could find there, my preferred succulents are of the rosette type while the bare tree types (aeonium which I got for my mum not for me) don’t interest me as much which I can use as funding when I go to sell them to buy the ones I like more, I do enjoy the hybrid ones where it’s tall but tightly packed with thicc leaves which I can keep that way with my window having a sun death (life) ray 10 hours every day.

It’s so soft, fluffy and cute that I want to have it as a houseplant alongside my other weeds (not the ones you smoke) I have, I haven‘t found a plant that looked like it was ready to flower but I have founds loads of younger plants, I assume that since they grow in a rosette like a succulent for the first year that it would be possible to just take the apical meristem and hopefully try to propagate the bud, if not I will wait for seeds however long that will take or simply taking the plant.

Found a chrysalis in the wheelbarrow, I decided I wanted to pupate it, the first one I did didn’t work out and dried out instead, the second one that I found as a grub that I forgot about and later on found the chrysalis which pupated perfectly into a beautiful moth, when I found the second one the chrysalis was wriggling around probably trying to fight containment lol

Not sure the species but from the UK

Don’t know how to crosspost properly but felt it’s relevant here

https://www.reddit.com/r/royalmail/comments/1te2x3k/excuse_me_oh_my/

See more screen jumping around too

Will be keeping more weeds, the leaves on them look really nice and there’s no reason they can’t be houseplants, this one is a Common Ragwort and I’m waiting on a prickly sow to seed so I can add that too.

I decided to grow and take care of some plants as a thing to do while I wait for some medical/financial stuff to get back into order, thriving right now on my windowsill next to a false dandelion which is growing tall!

Looks even better in real life, camera can’t catch it