u/courtneyrel

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