u/Noombat22

When I bought it it was literally a twig with a few roots and like 6 leaves at the start of this summer and it's just been exploding with growth. I'm used to my calamondin tree which puts out one new branch basically once every two years so I really don't know how to prune. It's less than a year old from cutting so I'm not sure if it's too early for pruning but I'm worried that it's not really making a central branch. For maintenance I've been picking off all the flowers it keeps trying to make and staking up the branches since for some reason they really want to go completely horizontal. Should I prune it to have one central trunk or just let it go crazy?

My very sick kitten had a wound opened up to her muscles that got infected. She got stitches and needed a sweater so she doesn't lick the wound. She was too tiny for any we could but so now she wears a sock. She's been paralyzed by it, she can only purr and knead the ground now. Standing for some reason is impossible to her with this on. After I took this photo I did have to do some sewing and adjusting that made it less cute so these are the only ones I have of her little turtle neck lol

I posted yesterday about finding this kitten and wondering if she was going to survive the night. Today we took her to the vet for a full checkup. Of course everyone was obsessing over her because she's adorable. The first photo is what she looks like now after getting her home earlier today, the second and third one is yesterday when we found her. We knew she had an upper respiratory tract infection because of all the boogers but it was actually much worse. Her left eye has completely rotted away. It's only half there, all the volume in the socket was infected goop they cleaned out at the vet. She almost died well she was there because she went roughly 6 hours without milk because of a scheduling issue with the vet when she was only supposed to be gone for 2 hours. She's much much older than we thought, 8 weeks old. She's just under 1 pound so extremely underweight. I didn't think she had a fever yesterday but her temperature was over 106 at the vet. Her blood work was shockingly normal though, other than she was extremely dehydrated. They gave her the strongest antibiotics she can handle and said that there was actually a very good chance of her recovering despite everything she's going through. They gave her some high calorie food which she loves and some fluids. I mix 50% with the high calorie pate and 50% with kitten formula and she gets 3 baby spoons full every hour now that she's back home. I was able to get her to eat so much more than she was eating yesterday but she has to have food every 1.5 hours or else she could get extremely sickly. Unfortunately that basically means my sleep schedule is completely wrecked since I can't sleep more than an hour or so at a time or else she might keel over on me. She's already started getting up and exploring again though now that's it's night. It's completely unbelievable how bad of a condition she was in and she keeps on staying playful, curious, and sweet. They said if she gets better in a few days and the infections go down there's a very good chance of her recovering so that's what we're hoping for. We haven't given her a name yet until we are sure she'll make it. Everything seems to be bacterial and not viral as far as we can tell. If she survives and the infection clears they'll do a surgery when she gains weight to remove the rest of the dead eye. I'm planning on a full adoption if she recovers and she'll be a fully indoor cat. My cat before her recently passed away at a very young age so I really hope she's ok and everything works out. She's certainly already made herself at home even if she's only allowed to be in one room right now. Right now she has very limited vision, no sense of smell, and poor hearing which does make everything difficult but everything but her vision should come back ok. Wish us luck and thank you everyone yesterday who gave advice and encouragement on the last post!

As a kid I yoinked this on a trip in Tennessee. It came from some fast moving river near the smokey mountains. I just found it again going through my stuff and realized how cool it looks. It's super heavy for its size. This is it completely dry. Despite being a river stone it's not actually that smooth, it's just that shiny while being rough. It kind of flashes when you move it in the light. Idk if iridescent is the right word, but it kind of looks similar in light which is just so cool

Found in a large, slow moving river in southeast Michigan. It makes a very metallic clink when you flick it. I tried bending it but it's extremely solid, didn't budge even a little. The color doesn't seem to come off. I've had it for like 2 years in a box and it hasn't gotten any more yellow so it doesn't seem to be actively oxidizing or anything. No idea what it is or if it's natural

Im back with this little thing. I haven't really gotten a direct answer that lines up with what I'm seeing so I figured I'd try again. It's a young and slow growing seedling and every new leaf comes out different and more mature. This time the terminal leaflet isn't just heart or slightly maple shaped, it has these huge three lobes. In the second picture you can see the oldest is the three leaflet one, then the 5 leaflet one, and now this new one with the lobes is the newest and most mature (probably most like the adult plant). The petoiles are complete smooth feeling and has a small purpleish and papery stipule at the base. The last photo is a baby picture, you can see the little cotyledons and that the first leaf was a tiny, simple leaf resembling a strawberry. If anyone has any ideas PLEASE give them because I've kept this plant for so long just because I wanted to figure out what it was and I just cannot figure it out. My only guess is maybe some kind of meadowsweet or something? I know it's really young still and so hard to identify but man it took over a month to get this big. I reviewed the time the photos were taken and can say for certain the seedling was found in early June, probably sprouting in May.

Edit: forgot to include location! America, Southeast Michigan. In a flood plain that goes under water for about 2 weeks a year, up to 4-6 feet. Found in a consistently moist location where sedge and mint liked to grow alongside it. Soil pH is likely pretty acidic given that it grows blueberries somewhat decently. maybe 5-6 if I had to guess. I think that's all the information I have on it

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.