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I picked some stuff today.  The peppers are Caribbean red habaneros, red and yellow lunchboxes, and jalapeños. The tomatoes are a mix of sun golds, sun sugars, and super sweet 100s.

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I recently got a rosary vine. Not my pic but my plant is about this size.

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I have no garden but I love botany. It's always interesting to try and recognize plants,Pl@ntNet is a cool app that helps identify all kinds of plants and trees shrimply by taking pics, 

progressively by knowing their ecology, I learnt to tell that there used to be a stream somewhere through the presence of plants, or the type of soil underneath, even guessing the cardinal directions on berry cloudy days
learning to "read" the wild landscape is so fun, especially because it combines different fields of knowledge

Tonight I will find out if that hardy prickly pear I bought in the fall is in fact one of the hardy ones.

>>11147
Yeah it is!

>>11147
how did you check

>>11171
I'm not them, but I wood assume it looked healthy after freezing temperatures.

>>11147
There are some wild ones in a field next to my dad's house.  I think I might try transplanting a few to my garden.

>>11171
>>11174
Yeah I just had it outside. We've had a little bit of frosty temps since I got it but last week was the first real cold snap. Down to 11 F even. Now it just comes down to siting it properly needs dry soil during cold times to prevent rot.

I've had a couple of  species of prickly pear for several years but they are VERY not hardy. I finally got one that is. Maybe one day I can get a start of the local species of prickly pear too.

>>11058
Also my rosary vine bloomed.

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>>11176
I looked this up out of curiosity. Those are bretty fancy.

Good job on the gardening anons! Sounds like it is going swell!

The tail end of my fall crops was a bit of a fizzle - some small snap peas and a few radishes. 

I set up a grow light indoors and am having smashing success with bok choy and lettuce all winter. Bunching onions aren't doing as well, more like chives but the flavor is still good.

>>11178
You woodn't think that this is related to periwinkle, but there you go.

>>11179
>indoors 

What's the rest of your setup like?  Does it take up a bunch of space?

It looks like my lady-slipper orchid will bloom for Christmas. That's a pleasant surprise. It usually blooms in January.

>>11297
Neat! I love orchids. What an amazing family!
Merry Christmas, Orchid-sama!  :)

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>>11184
A bit. The big kits have a bery comfy vibe but cost about $1,000. This will have to do for now.

And much respect to anyone that can keep orchids alive. I'm impressed!

>>11302
I've found it easier to keep the big fleshy leafed cattleyas alive inside. A single small slug do several months worth of damage in a single night and a couple large slugs can do several years worth of damage if they don't kill them outright.

>>11302
I think a lot of it comes down to the right environment. I used to have a few orchids when I lived in the tropics and they weren't too bad to take care of. Then I moved to the tundra and they died almost immediately inside my house...

>>11301
It's a cute setup. Good luck with the tiny onions.

>>11305
I need to grow some onions this year. Evergreen or white spear.

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Remember these? >>7730
Here they are today! 3 of the 4 survived longer than a year and are still sound and are dried up. Hope to make pies soon.

>>11491
That's good news, Anon! Thanks for the update. Hope to see pics of your pies if you make them. Cheers.

>>11491
That's awesome.  I'm amazed they lasted so long.  I'd love to see your pies too.

I got an nice bretty black aralia from the store today. I hope it will grow big for me.

>>11551
Good luck with your new plant.

>>11049 (OP) 
I wood like to start gardening but I don't live in the countryside, so I don't have much space. I think I could try growing chilis or mint indoors but I have no idea how to start.

>>12814
I wood suggest starting with nursery plants if you have not grown anything before.

Mint should be berry easy to grow indoors any smallish pot with some direct sunlight.  Mint is a fairly resilient plant, so it should stand up to a bit of poor quality care. It has the potential to spread and choke out other plants.  I wood not suggest planting it in a pot or planter with anything else.  

Chilis will probably not grow well indoors without a strong grow light.  You wood also need sufficient space and a large growing vessel.  Pepper plants grow fairly substantial roots and require a lot of soil depth.  Mine generally reach about a foot and a half down outdoors.  There are tiny ornamental peppers intended for small spaces, but, as far as I know, they all produce lackluster fruits.  Additionally, you wood need to pollinate the flowers by hand for an indoor chili to produce well.  Chilis are self pollinating,  but indoors there wood be no wind, insects, etc. to force the pollen to move around.  Gently agitating the stems wood probably be good enough to force consistent pollination.

>>12817
It wood appear there is a lot more variety in miniature peppers than I though. I wood suggest looking up dwarf and ornamental varieties to find something that sounds good to you.

>>12814
>>12817
>>12818
I don't know exactly your setup but peppers need heat (both up top and in the rootzone) and a lot of light and unless it's a common  C. annum variety you need to add bone meal too and even regular peppers like calcuim.

I don't feel overly confident about giving exact recommendations but I'll try. If you only have a little space, like a window shelf, get a pepper called Fish. It's compact and it's from a more northern climate (for peppers) so it should have a bit more tolerance to cold and light issues. It's also specifically a culinary pepper where as most compact peppers are ornamental only and have no taste, and maybe even no heat nowdays. https://www.rareseeds.com/pepper-hot-fish

If you have a little more space and especially if you can provide heat and light get a large clay pot (like 10 gallon at the smallest) and grow a chiltepin or any of the other bird type chilies. Tiny little Christmas light sized peppers but berry hot and the plant can last up to a decade if well cared for. https://www.nativeseeds.org/collections/chiltepines-wild-chiles/products/dc025

Some alternatives
>Tabasco
>any of the euro papirika types
>del Arbol (tree chili)
>Bretty in Purple
>possibly some of the compact SE Asian culinary types (will be probably called Thai this or that)

Stay away from
<Habenaro 
<Scotch Bonnet
<Reaper
<Scorpion etc.
Those are hard enough to grow under ideal conditions. Maybe some of the primitive or wild forms wood be OK but I still woodn't start with them.
<Aji an other C. baccatum types
Probably the right size for container growing but they're berry tropical. Might work if you can provide the light and heat.
<Rocoto
Berry cold tolerant and depending on the exact type maybe even tolerant of less light than most peppers. That also can live a decade and a half or longer. BUT they need a lot of space up top and probably as much below and I don't fancy them for container gardening unless you've got a sunroom that you can make a small raised bed in.

What ever you do don't grow peppers in a pure peat based medium. They'll damp off. no more than 50% peat. And put sand, fine gravel, pearlite, or vermiculite on the top just for extra security.

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Forgot pics. Fish is possibly the prettiest pepper in the world. 
Also here is a smallish chiltepin plant. They can get larger, like 3 feet tall and around with enough root space but they always have berry thin branches and small leaves.

>>12826
>Stay away from
<Habenaro 

I've always had excellent yields from habaneros.  The have been resilient and reliable in my experience.  I got well over 100 peppers of one plant last year and it kept producing until it froze solid.  I still have about 3/4 of a gallon left pickled.  They have always resisted temperature and moisture swings.  Why wood you suggest staying away from them?  Obviously the plants probably get too big for most indoor scenarios, but is there some other reason?

>>12827
Those look really nice, Anon!

>>12829
I was specifically talking about indoor gardening like what anon was talking about. If you 're growing them outdoors or have a good hothouse then it's a totally different situation. I don't know what anon's setup exactly is so I didn't want to suggest something that might not germinate or wood damp off or get blossom end rot and crinkly leaves from insufficient calcium.
>They have always resisted temperature and moisture swings.
Moisture I get. I'm not so sure about temperature but that probably depends on young vs mature plants and also the exact variety. The genetic sources for habeneros and friends have expanded a lot in the past 10 years. There may be some more temperate adjusted types that I'm not as familiar with now. It's been a while since I've grown any.

I do think some of the miniature habeneros might do well. It depends on anons light and heat situation.

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I planted a bunch of scallions earlier.  The bottoms of ones you get at grocery stores will grow just fine.

>>12829
>>12838 
>Habenaro
Another anon here. Not sure what variety of Habenaro I've got on my hands, but yeah
>it kept producing until it froze solid
has been my experience over the years as well. Never tried growing them indoors or in a hot house though

>>12941
Nice job. Good luck with your scallions, Anon!  :)

>>12941
Little pearl onions you get from the store work great too and so does garlic and shallots.

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Made some indoor gardening this morning.
>aspargus setaceus with some random mosses in a glass tube. It looks like a miniature forest from the past. I like it a lot.
>some little ferns in an old teapot.
>a rose I'm trying to ressuscite
>a purple beauty that may be a kin of tradescantia.

I also planted mint, chives and basil on the balcony, as well as a few flowers for the bee friends.

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Bonus: this gorgeous little aeschynanthus and some random lichens I've seen during my last walk outdoor.

>>13083
Excellent work.  The teapot is berry cute.

>>13084
Any idea what the plant with the bulbous sections is? Some kind of succulent?

>>13086
>bulbous
Near the lichens ? I don't know but there are a lot here. They usually grow on rocs with lichens and mosses.
With my gf we like 'em a lot, they are so cute.
I'll try to identify them next time. I'm not sure it's edible but it looks delicious xD

>>11497
NTA but when I buy kuri squash at the market they last me 2-3 months before I find the motivation to cook em.

>>13083
>a few flowers for the bee friends.
God's work. 🫡

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Comfy thread, tbh.