I need ~0.25 lbs of dry ice. The smallest amount I've found for sale is 5 lbs for $10. I don't want to waste 95% of my money, as I will need to get 0.25 lbs more than once (but not frequently enough to purchase a larger amount of dry ice and store it).
(Pictures are in reverse chronological order)
First picture was taken today
Second picture was taken in May
Third, Fourth, Fifth pictures were taken in April
Kept indoors under grow lights bright enough to cause a small amount of sun stress on a Jade plant.
Watered never (I got it in March, it was plump)
Planted in 50% perlite (pot is tiny so I'm not worried that it will stay moist for too long)
In May I assumed it was shriveling because it was sheathing, but it's been three months and it doesn't seem papery at all, just shriveled.
Do I need to be patient and wait for the sheathing process to finish, or is my plant extremely thirsty and not actually sheathing yet?
I need about 100g of dry ice (frozen CO2) once per week for the next 6 weeks.
I already called Carlstadt Ice but they said the smallest amount I can buy is 10lbs for $20. This would cost me $120 overall, so I'm seeking other options.
Anyone know where I can find a drill press to use for less than 30 minutes? I need to use a hole saw to make some holes in metal shelves but I don't feel safe doing it with a handheld drill. I have the hole saw already.
I think I've reached the limit of what cold proofing can do without compromising the bread's rise. My bread is still not sour enough!
My current recipe (starter is fed 2-1-1 every day or two):
After a few days in the fridge, my bread tends to go flat during baking. When this doesn't happen, I'm generally happy with all characteristics of my bread other than the sourness level.
Have you gone from making bread that was not sour enough to bread that is very sour? Which change did you make that had the largest impact on your bread's flavor?
I have three epiphytic cacti:
All three plants have been suffering for a while. They develop discolored regions on their leaves and drop most of their new growth. The leaves also display stress colors despite the gentle light I expose them to.
I was recently able to confirm using a cheap USB microscope that all three plants are afflicted with some kind of red-orange mite. The mites are minuscule but if I put my eye extremely close to the leaves I can see them walking around. The mites seem to only like the epiphytic cacti (I have about 100 other succulents of various genera which were kept near the cacti before I identified the mites. I have not observed any weird damage or mites on any other plants).
I'd like to treat all three plants to eradicate the mites. I'd prefer not to use miticide. I'm currently weighing four different options:
I'd appreciate any feedback on the above options as well as any guidance from people who have dealt with this type of mite before. I'd also love to know if any of the above options will have unexpected effects on epiphytic cacti that aren't present when used on other plants.
Thanks!
I snapped one of them in half when I was moving my table (not this exact table but close enough).
The tops must have used adhesive to attach to the bottom of the glass (rather than going through a hole in the glass). The remaining half is firmly attached to the glass after snapping.
The base of each standoff is attached with a bolt through a hole in the wood and a nut on the other side.
Google lens didn't work and I can only find standoffs that require holes in the glass or clamp to the edge of the glass when I search for standoffs.
I'm following the route that Google maps suggests if you want the specific locations I'll be passing through.
I'm currently interested in windowed Haworthia but I'll enjoy any store with a large variety of species.
First photo is from today, second photo is from 2 months ago
I'm worried because the inner leaves have gotten extremely wrinkled while the outer leaves have not been completely absorbed.
Should I give it a little water or keep waiting?
Previous post for photo comparison: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lithops/comments/1siu3c1/just_got_my_first_lithops_i_would_appreciate/
I believe I definitely need to water 2,3,4, and 6. They look wrinkly on the top and sides.
I would appreciate some guidance on 1 and 5, as the newer leaves look pretty wrinkly but they don't appear to have completely finished absorbing their old leaves and I am not sure if I should water them.
Thanks in advance for the help!
I recently bought some more grow lights and increased the ppfd my plants receive by about 30%. A bunch of them have begun to etiolate since then. I haven't changed anything else about their conditions.
I've verified with a PAR meter that the ppfd increased as I expected.
I've had these for about 3 months. They haven't grown much in that time and most of the lower leaves turned brown and shriveled up. I assumed that this was due to the cuttings lacking the roots to sustain all their leaves.
The damage got extreme in the last week. Many leaves have shriveled and died, and there are strange black specks. Two cuttings' leaves are mostly dead, while the third cutting seems mostly fine. The newest leaves on the first two cuttings have curled up and seem dead (but have retained most of their color rather than turning brown, which differs from the previous death of lower leaves).
The black specks made me think of thrips poop but I can't find any thrips on these plants or my other plants. I even vigorously shook these cuttings over some paper to see if any thrips or larvae would fall off, but I didn't see any on the paper.
I pulled the soil out of the pot and all three cuttings have good roots (a much larger quantity of roots than I expected given the short time since I planted them).
I moved to a new house about a month ago. I wonder if these issues were triggered by the move. My best guess is that either a light or water change due to my move is causing this.
Care Info
They get bright light on a windowsill for some amount of time each day. I believe the current light is comparable to the light they got before my move. These plants belong to a set of 5 plants which I keep together. None of the other 4 plants are having issues so I'm not sure if light is the issue.
I water them when the top of the soil is dry and the pots feel light. The pots have drainage holes. I'm careful not to get water on the leaves. I always let the water sit in an open container for at least a day to let any chlorine evaporate. I'm not sure how the hardness of my current water compares to the hardness of the water in the old apartment.
They're planted in potting soil (espoma brand I think). I'm aware that I probably should have added some perlite but the pots are pretty small so I'm not worried about root rot. I'll add some perlite when I repot any survivors.
I've put a leaf from a snake plant in water about 3 years ago. I change the water every so often (tap water). For about a year this green stuff has been growing on one side of the roots. The snake plant seems fine so I left the green stuff alone.
I've had the plant for around 10 years. It was doing well until I started noticing this around 8 months ago. The rate at which it is dropping leaves is increasing and new growth has all but stopped. I repotted it around 2 years ago into 50/50 soil/perlite. The roots looked fine when I repotted it.
It is becoming discolored (less green), dropping leaves, and has orange residue on the underside of dropped leaves.
The ailment doesn't seem to have spread to ant of my other plants (or if it has it presents differently on other plants).
Light
The plant gets ~100 ppfd for 14 hours each day (it is adjacent to the shelf I grow my succulents on). It used to get more but I thought the discoloration may have been sun stress so I moved it to a darker area. The discoloration has gotten worse since then.
Fertilization
I lightly fertilize it every so often with diluted fertilitizer. I do the same with my other plants. None of my plants show signs of over-fertilizing so I'm not inclined to think that's the issue
Watering
I water it when the soil is completely dry and the leaves look a little bit shrunken.
Are they just trying to clear out old stock? Are the 2024 seeds inferior in some way to more recent seeds (maybe the germination rate is much lower).
https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/bas-best-chocolate-chip-cookies
I've been making this recipe for a while. I had a lot of trouble with the cookies spreading too much. When I chilled the dough to decrease spreading I could not get the cookie to bake evenly (perfectly done edges with undercooked center or fully cooked center with overdone edges).
I recently figured out that dropping the temperature from 375ºF to 325ºF allows the chilled dough to cook evenly. I can now produce cookies that are evenly cooked and not puddles of dough. They're still very flat though.
I'd like to add flour to the recipe to make the cookies spread out less, but I don't have a good intuition for how much to add. The base recipe has 200g flour and 169g butter.
Questions: