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This is an aquatic carnivorous plant called Utricularia Gibba that normally grows all stringy in the water with tiny bladders that eat it's prey (As shown in pic 3). However, mine started climbing up a lava rock that I have sitting in water and the leaves completely changed, growing short, compact and with spirals at the tips, reminding me of Kirie's hair.

I added a picture of what it looks like now with the sprials (pic 1) how it was growing in the water (Pic 3) to compare. It's a really tiny plant so it was a bit difficult to capture the swirls, so you might have to zoom in.

What's even weirder is that I can't find any other examples of this happening with this plant, even after talking to some experts!

So I had this growing in a small desktop paludarium and thought it was U. Gibba this entire time as you can see in the photo when it was still growing in the water. I attached some to the bottom of a ping lava rock that was sitting in a water tray, so the bottom that was submerged would grow stringy with bladders but then I noticed as it started to climb the rock, it would grow smaller and smaller swirly "leaves" without bladders, making it not look at all like a Utricularia at all anymore.

Well I recently put the ping rock into a new container with fluval stratum and the portion that was above the water is still spreading and growing even weirder. I wonder if it will flower soon with the increased light it receives as it grows upward so I can confirm what it is.

(I added captions to the phots above)

So I have a few Monstera and most of them grow normally except for this M. Adansonii "Laniata Albo" (Which could also be "M. Accuminata Albo" or even "Adansonii 'Double Windows' Albo", because I'm pretty sure all 3 of these are the same plant from pictures online).

My Deliciousa Albo has always grown great with no issues right next to this laniata albo on an east facing window. But for some reason the laniata albo has always had trouble unfurling new leaves (Actually not when I first received it, but maybe a few months later). The next leaf is already trying to come out before the current one has even started unfurling (which it probably should have been done unfurling a while ago, but was probably stuck). The leaf would probably stay curled up forever if I don't gently open it up myself. The longest I've let them try and open up was about a month or so, but by the end of that, there were basically 3 new leaves that didn't unfurl at all or just maybe halfway.

I inspect the plant often but I've only ever found a single mealy bug on it, I thought that was the cause, so ever since I found it I've been spraying Biovanced 3-in-1 rose and flower care and also sprinking some Bonnide systemic granules in the soil, but the leaves keep coming out like this. Also there is a sticky clear substance on each new leaf which I'm not sure is from damage of some sort of pest (That's somehow still alive from weekly insecticide sprayings and systemic granules), or if it's something else.

Anybody have any ideas?

https://gleam.io/nFtI0/win-the-allnew-rayneo-gt-max-gt

Says winners announced September 4th and shipping info deadline is September 13th but there has been 0 information so far. No luck in the discord server either.

I currently only have a small electric masterbuilt and a MEATER wireless thermometers block (that have been working fine for me the past 5 years despite the fact a lot of people complain about them not working well), so the smokers lack of wireless/Bluetooth control doesn't matter much to me. But apparently people have also put in a 3rd party control unit to get those features, so that's always an option.

The guy said it works well still and he just did a deep clean on it. The only problem is that the chimney is bent/broke because they backed into their garage while the smoker was in the truck bed. Would it be worth $80? Are there any specific issues I should look out for with this specific model?

My use case is to make a lot of smaller shallow tanks (around 2 gallon) like in the second picture above, so I was trying to find something like this to where I can make a jig and rather than measure and mark each piece of glass, I can just place the glass up against the jig and and cut all pieces to be the same exact size.

This 14" tile cutter is only $49 so I thought I could use something like this, but after googling, it seems that these wouldn't be a great idea to use with glass? I can't really seem to find anybody that has really used them for glass either, so I wanted to see if anybody here has done something similar or has any ideas?

As far as I remember, he didn't undergo any additional training or anything between that time.

So I initially posted pictures of this white branch on r/botany because I thought it was caused by some sort of disease/pest, but they seem to think it could potentially be a persistent mutation in the L2 layer and to try and propagate it to see if it stabilizes with this variegation. I'm planning to air layer half of the branch and leave the other half growing on the tree to see if the buds next year also produce the same variegation.

I've read of cedar elms being used for Bonsai, so I was wondering if this mutation would do well in this hobby as well? Regarding the lower chlorophyl content I mean. It does seem to be pretty sturdy though since the white parts are not turning brown despite being in full sun in 97F degree weather all day (zone 8b).

I tried looking up what this could be, but as far as I could tell, there are no other occurrences like this? My first guess was something like a virus or pest, but can't seem to find anything about it. They turn almost completely white except for some green that remains at the base. There is something that appeared to be eating the leaves at the very tip of the branch, but before that, none of the other variegated leaves seem to have any holes/pests.

This is North Texas, Zone 8b. Tree seems otherwise healthy.

I tried looking up what this could be, but as far as I could tell, there are no other occurrences like this? My first guess was something like a virus or pest, but can't seem to find anything about it. They turn almost completely white except for some green that remains at the base. There is something that appeared to be eating the leaves at the very tip of the branch, but before that, none of the other variegated leaves seem to have any holes/pests.

This is North Texas, Zone 8b. Tree seems otherwise healthy.

I've been asking for pruning advice every time I post on here or r/roses but nobody actually ever gives advice to keep these under control lol. The last 2 pictures is my attempt to just trim them like bushes with a hedge trimmer, basically cutting off all the straggling vines back to the base of the plant so it can fill out more like a bush and I can eventually give it shape (Either rectangular column or sphere I'm thinking).

After I did a HEAVY trim all the way back to the trellis in October, the plants looked pretty ugly since all the growth underneath wasn't receiving anymore sunlight, so it looked "bald" and you could see most of the trellis underneath. But luckily they bounced back quick and sent out a lot of offshoots at the bottom, so I'm zigzagging them back up to the top so it can fill in the bottom again. Except this time, instead of just letting it vine out like crazy, I'm trying to trim it about once a month to give it a better shape, otherwise, I'll just end up with a huge viney mess as you can see in picture 2 where the two plants almost touch each other.

I even asked my local "Master Gardener" from my extension office on how I should trim these, but they just told me they're supposed to grow big (like 15x15 feet tall/wide), and that I might have not chosen the correct plants for this location since they need more space.
BUT! All the pictures I see of Peggy Martin climbing roses people have them stay nice and compact, hugging their house exterior or fences, not nearly as tall/wide as mine get, so I'm confused on what to do. He mentioned the flowers mostly come for "new wood", so the long vines that form, and that trimming them back once a month will reduce the amount of flowers I get in the spring. But this is the only way I can think of how people manage to keep climbing roses "flat" against a wall, isn't it?

Can anyone chime in on how they do it?

I've had this for about 1 year and just changed out the filters a couple months ago. I noticed something flapping near the tip when I turned the faucet on and saw there was this green slime stuff growing there. I wiped the inside with a paper towel and it seems like it was just that small piece at the very end of the faucet, nothing else inside.

Could all this stuff be inside the unit?? The water taste fine like it did when I first got it. Going to be contacting waterdrop.