u/dabbinmids

Doing some wiring in my crawl space today, haven't been down here for 2-3 years but finally getting around to fixing up some wiring. I at one point about 6 years back when I first bought this place, had a pine tree that was growing in the corner of the house, it was lifting up the foundation so I had to cut it down, these are the roots of said tree, couple years back I trimmed the ends of them but left this bug chunk that was coming in.

Today I came back and this huge guy had grown in almost complete darkness in my crawl space, only a tiny tiny bit of daylight from the vents nearby. Any ID on this weird looking dude?

Long time lurker, first time posting on the sub. I've never really had much luck with the high maintenance of the small pots, so I'm hoping it still fits into this sub... but I style like styling my trees, despite using medium sized pots.

Especially since moving to Washington about 7 years ago now, japanese maples have been the most fun to work with. Most of these are less than 5 years old with the oldest being the maple in the middle of the bench and the solo on the front porch. It's mid may and spring is in full effect here so just wanted to show off a little, the rhododendron just finished blooming but about a month ago was full of pink flowers, in the fall the chrysanthemum in the broken gray pot blooms, thay one has rebooted and flowered for going on 2 years now and was a gift to me at the hospital after a motorcycle wreck that destroyed my ankle.

Each plant has a story, 6 months of the year I pay no mind to the bench at all besides some basic spring pruning, in summer they take water every few days depending on the heat. Theyre lucky to see fertilizing once a year if that. I cant be bothered to go through the trouble of caring for them sometimes and just let the bench go dry for weeks at a time, some plants have perished (example in the yellow pot on the ground) but its survival of the fittest on this bench. Would love to hear some stories from other chaos bonsai gardeners if you can even call it that, who needs plants you have to tend to constantly when the only benefit is a cooler looking pot am I right??

When I first moved into my house I paid an electrician to make a new connection for a range during a kitchen update, never double checked their work since the crawl space sucks to get into. That was about 4 years ago, then this past weekend I was doing some work in my crawl space that was unrelated to this, some plumbing, and I caught a glimpse of this... I mean I'm a carpenter by trade but my gut feeling is that this does not look good, possibly a fire hazard? How concerned should I be on a scale of 1-10?