u/courtneyrel

Base: seche vite
Color: sally hansen “black out” x2
Stamp color: polished for days “cosmic energy”
Top: seche vite QDTC

(Stamp plate from Amazon)

I bought this at a local nursery and at the time I thought it was a baby elephantipes. Now that the leaves are bigger and it’s developing flower buds, I realize I was wrong lol.

The caudex is super light weight and feels exactly like cork. I can push on the outer “bark” and it would indent easily. I’ve asked all the plant ID apps, chat gpt, etc and they all give me IDs of plants that look nothing like this one. Any ideas?

I bought a pot of 4 tiny benjaminas from a big box store in 2024 and made it my goal to fuse them together, despite having no idea what I was doing.

Attempts 1 and 2 were based on the thought that I could force them to grow aerial roots that would wrap around the trunks and “tie” them together. The first attempt at this was shaving the bark, slathering them in rooting hormone, and tying them together (didn’t work) and the second was covering the lower parts of the trunks with damp sphagnum (also didn’t work).

Attempt 3 was to just force them together with zip ties and say a prayer… and this is the one that worked. Two years later I have this awesome, thick, ropey trunk and I am super proud of it!

I just got this konjac (my first amorphophallus) at a plant show a few weeks ago and it’s looked the same the entire time I’ve had it… until this morning when I noticed another leaf emerging from the soil. Is this normal? Does it mean there are actually 2 corms in the pot?

My husband was unclogging a shower drain at a hotel. When he poured drain cleaner down the drain, a snake of black sludge started slithering out of the overflow hole. At first he thought it was hair but it disintegrated when he sprayed it with water. He said it left a nasty oily residue all over the tub and smelled ungodly. Wtf is this horrid substance?!

My melanochrysum has sized out of the milsbo so I had to take it out 🥺 I miss how the cabinet looked with it inside (second pic) but there’s so much more room in there now for my anthuriums to grow!

I’ve been growing out these dawn redwoods for 2 years now. My original idea was to use them in a forest, but I’m starting to wonder if a forest with only 3 trees would look ridiculous. Is there any way to do a 3 tree planting that wouldn’t look bad? Or should I get a few more smaller saplings to plant with them and do the traditional “many trees of many different sizes” style forest?

If anyone has any advice or a pic of their forest with only 3 trees, I’d love to hear/see it!

Base for both: Nailtiques 2
Top coat for both: seche vite QDTC

Left: sally Hansen “black to black” x2, topped with PFD “grave consequences” x1
Right: kur nail concealer x2, topped with PFD “cosmic energy”

My melano has been in my cabinet for the entire time I've had it. When it was time to extend its pole I even rearranged the entire cabinet to accommodate it... that's how terrified I am to acclimate it. It went from having 5" leaves to 20" leaves in 8 months and I just really do not want to ruin the good thing we have going together 😂

But it's time, and I have no idea how to go about it. For context the cabinet has a humidifier and stays between 70-80%, and my ambient is like 55%. My first thought was to slowly stop using the humidifier but I don't want to mess up all the anthuriums in there because I don't plan on acclimating them yet. Is my only option to just take it out of the cabinet and hope for the best? I hear people in this sub talk about acclimating plants all the time so I know there has to be a method better than going whole hog all at once, but I have no idea what specifically that entails. Any advice/help is welcome!

It isn’t fully inflated yet but the iridescence and purple color at this stage is so pretty! I took pics of it every couple days because it blows my mind how tiny anthurium leaves are when they emerge vs how big they get when they’re fully inflated (posted in reverse order)

Plant is a Voldemort x ??

1. Soak half a cotton round in acetone
2. Clip it in place with a soak off clip
3. Wait a couple minutes
4. Twist the cotton round off and watch all the newly liquified gunk slide right off
5. Feel the extremely pleased with yourself