u/Noombat22

It has grown SO MUCH and became variegated everywhere rather than just the top! The last picture is a before of what it looked like last time I posted it. It seems to be more stable as it's putting out way more variegated leaves more consistently than it was doing. Still no single pattern though, every leaf is a gamble. Some are marbled, some have mint green spots, some are half moon, some have marginal variegation, totally random every leaf. I don't know if that's a good sign. All the newest leaves come in yellow and become white which is interesting. I have no idea what variety it is since it was a seedling dropped by some really old plants in our yard. Maybe no variety, they might just be wild. I'm so excited to see the flowers though! Hopefully I can get it in the ground pretty soon.

These black spots are appearing on the leaves and stems. Does anyone have experience treating this? It gets full sun all day and is watered once every two days. I know fungus is often a major problem with banana plants, does anyone have any insight on whether or not this is fixable?

These black spots appeared on the leaves, stem, everywhere. Is there anyway to save it? It spread ridiculously fast, they were not here or at least not noticable just a few days ago

So I've posted this guy here before and the ID at the time was strawberry. They've just grown a new leaf though and this one has 5 leaflets? It grew as a weed in a garden bed and I grabbed it since I hadn't ever seen it before. It kind of looks like a rose bush to me but I have no idea how one would've gotten there since there's none around.

America, Southwest Michigan. Originally found the plant sometime in May

I found a dying sapling under my porch. I dug it up to remove it but I realized it might be a mulberry? I don't want to kill it if it's native so I immediately stuck it in a pot, put a clear bag on top for humidity, and removed the top since it was really badly damaged so it hopefully won't die of transplant shock. If it's white mulberry, a hybrid, or some other tree I don't really care. Here's the leaves and petoiles, they're damaged by some pests. Some defining features I found is short, rough hairs all over equal on top and bottom, smooth petioles, a long tail at the bottom of the leaves that curls up, and sharp serrated margins. It's top isn't really glossy at all but it's bottom is pretty shiny which is why I'm really second guessing myself. If feel pretty sucky if it is because I mangled it REALLY BAD. It's not wilting and it's been a few hours but still. I have no idea whether there was a mulberry tree here before but it's a very, very old house on the water we moved into a few years ago so it is very possible. I know red mulberries are pretty rare though so I'm skeptical. I'm in America, Southeast Michigan.

I removed this banana peel. No idea why these are here, I've never seen them in my bin before but it's probably because this banana peel and been in my bin for like three months and my worms just do not want it. They don't seem to bother my worms but I'd rather not have these things. just a cool video I thought though

When I checked my worms bedding there's a bunch of pieces of cardboard with this on it. I think it's mold :( there's also like mycelium or something sticking some pieces together. A few weeks ago I had some kind of inkcaps sprout but I thought that was the end of the mushroom problems. The bedding doesn't feel too wet, when I squeeze no water drops come out. It's also on the cardboard sheet I have on top to keep moisture in so it was literally glued to the bedding today. The worms seem fine but does this mean there's a problem with my bin? I don't feed them very often, only until there's almost nothing left of the last meal since I'm scared of over feeding. All the cardboard chunks in the bin are about that size since I don't have a shredder and I'm too lazy to shred them smaller than that. The bedding is mostly cardboard and paper bags but probably like 20-30% coco coir.

These things keep popping up by the water. I always thought they were tiny shrubs but one went crazy for a few years and now it's a big tree. What is this? Is this and alder or a birch or something? Located in Southeast Michigan

This new leaf is yellow and a little clear on the variegated part. Is this a problem with the leaf? It's a variegated Rose of Sharon that happened randomly so I'm not sure what's normal for it. This is the youngest one and the first young one I've seen since I potted it so I'm not sure if it's normal behavior. It's definitely not a stable mutation so it's doing a lot of weird stuff, just want to make sure this isn't a sign it's self destructing the variegation or something. Ignore the censor I accidentally caught my toes in the picture and had to remove them.

No idea if it's going to be stable or not but a cool thing I wanted to share. Really cool patterns on it, I especially love the perfectly split leaf shown in the second picture. it also has a random variegated leaf at the bottom so it's more than just the one branch that mutated

this rose of Sharon randomly variegated itself. One branch at the top has a good amount and then one leaf at the bottom has a little. No idea what to do with it so I potted it since it was growing in a bad spot where it would probably get weed wacked. I think it's probably Red Heart, a random pink variety I can't identify (Minerva maybe?), or a cross of the two. I'm just going to let it go and see what it does

I spent like a week fixing this waterlogged, extremely acidic mud patch that was basically the old garbage heap of our house where my dad threw kitchen scraps and grass clippings for half a decade. Nothing we put there could grow so I went through, aerated it, fixed the texture, and fixed the drainage enough to plant some Chufa. Anyways, yesterday my first Chufa finally came up, along with a thousand other random plants which decided this patch was good now aswell I guess. This morning, literally overnight it's completely overrun by hundreds, maybe thousands of mushrooms. The pictures cannot do it justice. Very magical looking! Especially because it's only in the spot I fixed, the rest of the mud I didn't get too is still completely barren. Very promising (I think.) Just something interesting that happened on the path to getting the most out of our yard. Ignore all the grass clippings, they just blew in from across the fence. Not really any point to this post, just blabbing

So I have this potted banana plant. I keep it outdoors as much as I possibly can during the summer and bring it in during colder or very stormy days. It's inside for a few days since the temperatures are getting in the 40s at night. It's a dwarf Cavendish. almost every new leaf since I've gotten it excluding the first few has come out horizontally like it's trying to spread outwards for some reason. The last one even curled and started going downwards. I stake it up after every new leaf to get it to grow vertically but it just keeps growing this direction the next time it puts out a new leaf. It doesn't matter where the light is coming from, it always goes the same way no matter how I move the pot. The roots are straight up in the pot and most days it gets full sunlight outdoors right now. It only started doing this the past three leaves. There's no obstructions in the center that I can see that would make it do this and when I tie it up it adjusts and starts growing up instead. Is this a normal thing for this variety? The leaves aren't floppy or anything, it's completely rigid just the same as the leaves that went up when it was still a tiny banana. It gets watered almost everyday since it dries up pretty fast in the sun and the soil it is in is a mix of potting soil, sand, and compost so it drains very well. Ignore the old dead leaves at the bottom, I accidentally forgot about it one night and it got a little cold. I fertilize it once every 2 weeks with a liquid fertilizer and it is in a soil with quite a bit of compost. I honestly have no idea what's wrong with it, for some reason it just REALLY yearns to meet the ground I guess

So this appeared on my father's retaining wall. It went from one last year that probably washed up in a flood, to like a clump of 20 this year. It has absolutely no smell and perfectly square stems. It's very wet here and these are frequently underwater. It gets full sun all day with no obstructions

South Michigan

I'm seeing hundreds of these around, what is it? I'm not really at all familiar with ​anything that looks like this. Don't even have a guess on the family. Kind of reminds me of a very young bamboo but I know that's wrong. I feel like its a wildflower just off of vibes lol. ​North America, southern Michigan, early May