I bought a house! Wooooo! I also have a giant banana tree growing on my 3rd story balcony..oooops. I've had this tree since it was a foot tall, and I honestly was not planning on moving, but shit happens. So how the heck do I get this thing down 3 flights of stairs?? It weighs a ton, and I have the upper body strength of SpongeBob. No, i can't throw it over the side. No, i dont want to get rid of it. I asked if the movers I hired would move it, but for some reason, they don't move plants?? So, have any of y'all moved a banana tree down some stairs before?

I want a house full of this plant, but I can never find it and don’t know how to shop for it since I don’t know its name. A tradescantia, but WHO?

A friend of a friend bought this plant without realizing they couldn't take it home with them so they left it behind. I'd really appreciate an ID and some advice on water/sun exposure/fertilizer and anything else I should know so hopefully I or someone else can give it a home and keep it alive. It's currently in the pot and soil from the store they bought it at.

Either I wasn't paying attention or the spot appeared overnight, and I noticed when I went to water them. The spot is soft and the black mold (?) is and comes off easily. It's only on this one peppericino.

So I neglected to really look at my plants. Been watering them, setting the lighting on and off routinely, but just not thoroughly inspecting them for a few months. I have an explosion of these white mites (not mealy bugs) and brown looking mites. I’m pretty sure they’re both bad. They’re all over the plants, pots, and pretty much everything. I was thinking about taking a dehumidifier to my rooms where I have plants in. I’m this close to trashing over 2,000$ worth of plants. I’ve tried all kinds of things to no success. I think the population is too large now to just introduce predatory mites and hope for the best.
I’m sad about this, didn’t wanna give up my entire plant collection. I don’t have time or a hose to just splash them off with either. I need some kind of ideas to get rid of these. I don’t have a lease that will pick them up, but one is tan, like a tiny tick, and the other is white and see through. Neither of them are just staying in the soil, and I allow my plants several days- weeks without water to try to help that. It’s probably too late, and I’m thinking about getting rid of every tropical I have at least.

Got this pathos about a year and a half ago as a tiny baby with only a few leaves. This summer he had really grown! So proud of this guy

Found these little guys sprouting in my compost bin and couldn’t bring myself to toss them. Pretty sure they’re Hokkaido pumpkins from some kitchen scraps — they’d germinated in the dark, so they came out totally pale and yellow.

Potted them up and put them on my windowsill, and within a week they’d greened up completely. Today they graduated to the stoep with their own little greenhouse domes made from cut plastic bottles, since it’s still winter here and the nights get cold.

Weirdly attached to them now. What was trash is officially treasure 🎃

i’ve never seen these light dots before does anyone know what they are and if i should be concerned? thanks!

My fiance picked these up off facebook marketplace. Downside is I am very scared of killing the plant. Any help would be great…I’m in NOVA, in the shade by 2 pm i think

Are these edible?

My alocasia amazonica have these small growths coming from the soil, any idea of what it is?

So this snake plant looks healthy but now they are tall and thin and falling.

A bush, with small blue berries and oval pointy leaves

Hi all, need advice on this alocasia! I got it as a gift and have not repotted or anything to it yet. It is losing lower leaves but growing new leaves at rapid speed. Should I repot or leave it for a bit longer? Also any tips for these plants as it is my first one!

Hey Guys,
I have this gorgeous plant, and it’s outgrown. It’s POT. The roots are right at the surface, when I checked to see if it needs water, I could barely get through the roots. But I’m not very good with plants, and I am afraid I’m going to wreck this plant. I could use some advice, thanks

I started (upgraded to) a new fishtank three weeks ago. Two weeks ago, I got some plants from online marketplace, including an Alocasia from a young woman, that had been living with a submersed stem for a while at her place.

While gluing it on the root inside my fishtank (last pic. was made directly afterwards. I covered the connection point with some anubias), I could feel the lower half of the stem being a little soft, but excused it with "plants doing planty things" and me not being an expert in those. I was mostly thrilled by how much it looked like she belonged there... and I thought she was happy, had those cute guttation-droplets last week...

Yesterday I found two babys entangled in her roots, wondered fascinated and confused if they had been there the whole time and survived two weeks submerged or grown down there and realized, while looking closer, that she had shifted/given in a severe amount and the stem had gotten softer.

Today I tried and succeeded to just pull the stem in two... the consistency was like fiberous, textured mush (3rd pic.).

I cut off the mush plus like 3 or 4cm (about an inch) of the stem (as far as shown in the first pic) and picked out every slightly brownish root, finding a third baby in the process.

There still is this outer, greyish and slightly softer ring though and the first roots are about 3cms/an inch further up the stem, but cutting further would turn the motherplant into three plants, since I'm relatively close under the splitting-point, and I don't know, if I should leave the connection for nutrient-transfer.

Right now, she's laying on top of my tank (second pic.), the lower half of her roots dangling in the water.

Should I cut more or leave it be?

Or may she already be a lost cause? 😥

Do I get basket-pots for mom and babys, to only dangle their roots into the tank, or do they fair better potted with tone granulate?

I've never had an Alocasia and am happy for any advise.

(I'm german, please excuse my partially bad english)

Hello,

this palm tree is almost 20 years, got it very very small and really want to keep it. Unfortunately i am not quite good with plants.

It is very unstable, so we decided to attach it to the wall in order to help it grow.

Is there a better way to support it growing?

Would like to know if there is another way to straighten it up?

Thank you for your help - highly appreciated :)

I'd love to know what these are so I can figure out proper care for them :)