
r/Horticulture

Anyone in La take the horticulture test for a job?
Curious how to study for it
My gardenia is drooping
I bought a gardenia, live in the south, and transplanted it with miracle grow soil and it looks like this. I think it gets too much sun. I don’t now what to do except dig it up and move it. I want to put it in a larger pot and then I can move it as needed. I don’t how to take care of this type of plant. I bought food for it but haven’t used it yet. Please help!
Grandes amarantes
Un petit tour dans la grande perspective du Jardin des Plantes de Paris très fleurie. Avec notamment ces superbes amarantes (Amaranthus cruentus ´Velvet Curtains’). #fleurs #été #Jardin #paris
Botanical garden hours
For those who work at botanical gardens, what days of the week do you work? And what hours? I'm in the greenhouse and we have a few different schedules, Tuesday-Saturday, Sunday- Thursday, and Monday-Friday. Typically 8:00-4:30.
New in horticulture and botany
So Ive been studying a plant per day for like a week now
I take notes of how to grow them, their needs, what they like, what they dont like, conditions and possible sickness along with their family
I dont really know what I am doing and next tear I will join an online university for a degree.
I want to maybe open a flowershop and help people with their garden in future. If this happens its going to be a side hustle because I already have a job.
Any recommendations ? It can be book, website or any kind of media
Thanks in advance
Pumpkin Advice
🎃 Hello fellow pumpkin growers! 🎃
I’ve started quite late into the season, however, my pumpkin plant is looking very healthy. I’ve built a make shift planter with a metal mesh surround which I am looking to eventually train to grow outside and over/around.
This is my first time growing a pumpkin and I believe this is the “mini” kind. I’m looking to keep the plant in this contraption that I’ve made, but I need some advice on what I should be pruning and how to train vines/leaves etc. I planted this from seed around 10th July so it’s been growing for just over a month now.
If all goes well this year, I’m probably going to try and grow a monster next year as I’m really enjoying watching this grow🤣👍 Any/all advice is appreciated!
Online Course Greenhouse Horticulture WUR
Does anyone have this course for free? It's the most advanced Greenhouse Horticulture course
Remote tree watering help
Hello,
Im a novice to agriculture/permaculture/silviculture. I live in southern california, and own a very small plot of land in the lake elsinore area. As a part of commemorating the recent passing of my 10 year old golden retriever, I decided I wanted to plant a 1-2 ft Sugar Maple since she was from Vermont. Ive seen native bigleaf maples in nearby riparian areas reaching 30-40 feet, so I know this could work.
I want to take this as a challenge. Since the annual precipitation here is only 8-10 inches, with all of it falling only 2-3 months during the winter, This tree must be irrigated, 3x a week as im planting in in late summer. An obstacle is theres no plumbing or permanent infastructure, and I dont plan on placing anyfor a while.
Coming to a conclusion that I want the tree to be remotely irrigated with no other permanent change to the land (besides the tree and permaculture to maximize retention of water), I realized water hauling is the only option. I can use my brothers rivian r1s for towing temporarily when hes off work (Charging the car is on me).
My brainstormed setup is:
Electric SUV with only 7,700 lb towing capacity
??? Trailer with axle that can withstand sloshing, highway speeds and offroad conditions
100 gallon water tank or IBC tote attached to this trailer
Hose reel and water pump, preferrably electric
Please feel free to critique the plan from macro to micro scale, ill take any guidance!
Thanks!
Can someone help?
I am in zone 7a, planted Dino kale seeds, basil, bok choy, and lettuce (in order of video) in self watering filter raised bed on July 31st and I don’t know, feeling like something isn’t right? Any tips? Are those flies beneficial btw?
My first cacti!
Hello Reddit, I just repotted my domino cactus that I got a week ago. I watered him about 8 days ago and just now managed to repot him.
I was wondering how healthy he looks, looks pretty good to me, but I don’t have much experience yet.
I definitely want to get more Echinopsis, and will definitely be getting some San Pedro cacti in the future!
any tips? his name is Nicky!
Which perennial vegetables yield the highest harvests and practically grow on their own once they’ve taken root?
Jerusalem artichokes and walking onions in my garden have turned out to be real “workhorses.” I planted them once, mulched them generously, and now they just pop up every year without any effort on my part. Jerusalem artichokes grow to enormous sizes, so they need to be pruned, but the harvest is simply amazing. Now I’m eager to add even more low-maintenance crops to my climate zones.
How long do plugs usually take to ship?
I run a nursery that acclimates plants from tissue culture. We primarily grow alocasias, anthuriums, monsteras and philodendrons. Currently we sell to retail and ship via UPS/USPS but I've been wanting to branch off to selling directly to nurseries and ship via freight. My question(s) are:
- For those of you who work in nurseries that buys or sells plugs, how long are these plugs usually in transit? How are they typically packed? Any tips for making sure the plants do well in their journey?
- Anyone have any recommendations for freight forwarders who specialize in moving plants? They're supposed to be shipped from California to the midwest.
I appreciate all answers! I'm looking for freight forwarders who can move a pallet of plants at a time. If you don't want to share the freight forwarder publicly, dms are also greatly appreciated!
Dead cryptomeria globosa?
If there is a better page to ask this question, please advise.
I have three of these plants in a rock bed. They’ve always done very well, even in full sun. They get the same amount of water and sunlight. Now I noticed two of them have brown spots, but they look different. The first picture definitely looks like a dead patch. The second picture on a different shrub of the same variety looks brown, but appears different. It’s not dried out. It doesn’t look right, however.
Somewhere along the line I read that new growth on these plants appears brown, but I just don’t think that’s the case. Any advice on what these two shrubs could be dealing with and how to treat them?
Bottom line: they both have brown spots, but the brown spots look like they’re different causes. I’m not sure if the first picture is just dead shrub and the second picture is a shrub that’s suffering from the same thing but not quite at the complete death stage lol.
Help. I don’t wanna lose these shrubs.
Bought new house have 2 planters what to do?
Any ideas for the following about to take over new house
What to grow in planters, iam thinking herb garden? Anything else
What soil to replace it with, mixture etc
Just leave the sleepers and jet wash or shall I clad it etc
What would cause this?
Monterey Brush Cherry. Nightime photo, sorry about the quality. If younwould, please zoom in on the damage/dead portions of leaves, especially the one circled in red. Seems unusual for a leaf to die right in the middle. Looks like someone has sprayed something on the plant. Does this plant's leaves die this way? Thank you.
Help! What light pink perennials (flowers/bushes) could I purchase to landscape my home?
Included are swatches of the range of pink I'm looking at, though I will look outside these colors too. The main rule is PLEASE NO HOT PINK/VIBRANT PINK! An example for what I'm thinking would be something like Indian Hawthorne, which I don't believe survives in my area. Some I've already looked at but have not researched their ideal climates would be:
•Coral Dianthus
•Pulmonaria
•Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus)
•Achimenes
•Creeping Phlox
•Yarrow
•Bleeding Heart
•Astilbe
•Camellia
•Lillies
•Knockout Rose
Any help appreciated! I apologize if this is outside the typical postings. I bought my first home and as a woman who is obsessed with pink, I need to make sure my whole neighborhood is aware (I just love looking at it...)
EDIT: Planting zone is 7b!
What to do with this money tree?
What should I be doing with this money tree to help keep it looking nice? Should I prune any of these parts, be trying to twist it more in any place? All recommendations welcome, also happy to provide more pictures
Grafting plants of different sex together to produce fruit from one tree of a dioecious species
To put it simply I'm considering how to best grow Myrica Rubra, a dioecious tree (each individual is either male or female) to produce fruit in a very limited space. An idea that struck me is to graft a few branches from a male plant onto a female plant to enable polination and thus fruiting on a single tree, however I have not been able to find information on whether this would actually work.
As of now I just aquired the seeds so any grafting procedure is not going to take place soon, but it would be interesting to know if this approach is viable. Assuming the graft succeeds, would chemical signaling be compatible? Perhaps most importantly would both male and female branches flower at the same time?
What motivates me is in part curiosity, but also a wish to let my wife have one of her favorite fruits, that we have never seen for purchase locally, in a climate that necessitates growing this tree indoors. In the coming few years it will likely have to live on a sealed balcony, but I hope it can eventually grow in a greenhouse in our future garden.