- Thu Dec 28, 2023 8:48 pm
#444495
Hi all, new member here from west Yorkshire
First let me say that no one is more surprised to find me here than I am. I have a terrible history with plants. I was once given a bamboo plant that was marketed as a 'lucky money plant' the label on the plant was ever so keen to say that it was ideal for people who cannot look after plants, as it was virtually unkillable. 2 weeks, just 2 weeks before it was dead. And now I have decided to try and grow a couple of plants that are probably going to be a lot harder to grow than bamboo.
So, undeterred, I am about to plant two sundew and two Venus flytrap seeds and see what can possibly go wrong
Any advice will be gratefully received and acted upon. I tried to give myself the best advice of 'do not bother'. Unfortunately I rarely listen to myself, and the action I took on that advice was to ignore it.
My workshop is not terribly warm in winter, and natural light is lacking at the moment, until the building modifications are done and I have a nice warm office with a window. To begin with, I am going to try and use my nerdier instincts to try and make this a success. So I have ordered a cheap propagator that comes with a heating mat and a full spectrum light which apparently is like sunlight. I am going to use an Arduino to monitor temperature and humidity inside the propagator and also monitor the soil (not soil, but some disks of a compressed fibre that came with the 'grow your own hungry bug eating plant' kit.
Now it says not to use tap water, but distilled or boiled and cooled tap water.... But they are not the same, and so while bits and pieces are being delivered, I thought my first question would be about the water. Distilled water is a coverall expression for deionised water as well as distilled water in theory that would be just H²O where as tap water has chlorine along with other trace elements which would not be removed by boiling. So do I use cooled boiled tap water, distilled water or bottled mineral water which has trace elements, but no chlorine?
Once everything arrives then the questions will really happen as I try to program an Arduino to erase my complete inability to get green things to do what I want.....
(By the way, the problem does not just occur with growing plants I like, but killing ones I do not like If i get the strongest weedkiller i can find to treat my path, then only a couple of days later, the weeks look like they are being cared for by the finest minds ar Kew Gardens
First let me say that no one is more surprised to find me here than I am. I have a terrible history with plants. I was once given a bamboo plant that was marketed as a 'lucky money plant' the label on the plant was ever so keen to say that it was ideal for people who cannot look after plants, as it was virtually unkillable. 2 weeks, just 2 weeks before it was dead. And now I have decided to try and grow a couple of plants that are probably going to be a lot harder to grow than bamboo.
So, undeterred, I am about to plant two sundew and two Venus flytrap seeds and see what can possibly go wrong
Any advice will be gratefully received and acted upon. I tried to give myself the best advice of 'do not bother'. Unfortunately I rarely listen to myself, and the action I took on that advice was to ignore it.
My workshop is not terribly warm in winter, and natural light is lacking at the moment, until the building modifications are done and I have a nice warm office with a window. To begin with, I am going to try and use my nerdier instincts to try and make this a success. So I have ordered a cheap propagator that comes with a heating mat and a full spectrum light which apparently is like sunlight. I am going to use an Arduino to monitor temperature and humidity inside the propagator and also monitor the soil (not soil, but some disks of a compressed fibre that came with the 'grow your own hungry bug eating plant' kit.
Now it says not to use tap water, but distilled or boiled and cooled tap water.... But they are not the same, and so while bits and pieces are being delivered, I thought my first question would be about the water. Distilled water is a coverall expression for deionised water as well as distilled water in theory that would be just H²O where as tap water has chlorine along with other trace elements which would not be removed by boiling. So do I use cooled boiled tap water, distilled water or bottled mineral water which has trace elements, but no chlorine?
Once everything arrives then the questions will really happen as I try to program an Arduino to erase my complete inability to get green things to do what I want.....
(By the way, the problem does not just occur with growing plants I like, but killing ones I do not like If i get the strongest weedkiller i can find to treat my path, then only a couple of days later, the weeks look like they are being cared for by the finest minds ar Kew Gardens