I like chives. Never eat them, but they look pretty.

>>5114039
It's not meant to be eaten, it's meant to be planted by your pond

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What is this on my Kalanchoe? Gall?
Not something to worry about I assume

>>5113591
>No, if it's not in thousands of lumens it's not useful for anything but tiny plants
Can you tell me more about this topic, I don't know much about it, always thought that you need to look for full light spectrum and not light output

>>5115046
Take your light meter app, (change it to footcandles), go outside under the spring/summer sun and compare the number to whatever you have inside
then realize that indoor lighting is essentially a cave and plants stretch inside because they literally think they are buried underground and need to get back to where there's daylight.
In regards to full spectrum, consider that there are giant plants that have lived longer than you have exclusively under glass windows in greenhouses, those windows blocking invisible light like uv (that full spectrum doesn't even have) and only receiving the basics.

>>5115046
>>5115073
Photosynthesis is performed using light in the visible spectrum. Light from the sun, or a basic lightbulb, produce white light, which is white because it's all the colors.
"Full spectrum" is a pointless nondescriptor. The brightness and intensity of the (white) light is what matters.
You also can't trust your eyes in regards to the brightness of light, because your eyes adapt to the situation, and are adapted for low light. Staring directly at a lightbulb may hurt your eyes so you think it's very bright, but when measured with unbiased technology, you can see that it might only be 500 fc, compared to the sun when it's not overcast, which will be 10,-12,000+ fc. In all directions, as opposed to just coming from one small source.
The photosynthesis reaction is catalyzed by energy from light. Just straight photons. The more light, the more energy, because there's more light. The more light, the brighter, because there's more light. Colors don't enter the equation anywhere.
Sure red and blue light are absorbed the best, but there's literally no reason to just throw out the entire rest of the spectrum when it's like, the default light we produce. If you had a white light and a red light of the same brightness, the red light would be way more expensive and way hotter for next to no benefit.

>>5115046
They don't actually use the full spectrum do they? They use mostly red and blue and make an effort to reflect green and infrared. Our eyes adjust when indoors so we don't get a good objective read on light level, which does need to be high enough.

>>5115046
>>5115078
As long as you have a light between 9000 and 12000 lumens in brightness and around 5000k or 6500k color temp you will have a grow light as good as sunlight. You can get LED projector units for less than $50 easy, but it needs to be setup properly as how far the light is from the plant will affect lumen. Blue v red v UV is just weed farmer lore and not something to worry about.

>>5115114
Sorry I didn't mean to emphasize the blue-red thing so strongly. I should have said it the other way around.

Did /plant/ replace the HMG general threads from a few years ago?

Which plant is the least Jewish?

>>5115465
Pumpkins of Manpukuji

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I bought a japanese maple and I'm gonna grow it on my balcony

Grass is very important.

>>5115551
Nice. Plant some oxalis in the container for a companion plant and living mulch.

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My poppies are coming up strong.

>>5115581
What are their names?

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>>5115587
They're papaver somniferum.

Was getting worried about my milkweed surviving the winter, since I planted it pretty late last year but after rooting around a bit I found the namesake tuber of asclepias tuberosa. Looking forward to more monarchs this year!

Getting the potting mix for Lithops right is so confusing. I found some sand that I thought I would mix in because I like the color of it and its big enough that I can easily pick out each individual grain in the container, I'm second guessing myself.
Anybody here actually keep Lithops?

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>>5114032
more like Strokesia

Almost have a house so I can make a pollinator garden. Have been collecting seeds from my hikes.

I want to start air layering my starfruit tree because I only have one and if a hurricane takes it out I'll be sad. Is there any reason to buy and use those little plastic air layering balls/pods that seem to have exploded in popularity instead of the classic saran wrap + tin foil?

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>>5115551
Acers are great, the red ones are the most popular but I actually prefer the green ones.

>>5116260
i'm at 3400 dollars out of however many million
only 20+ more years to go!

>>5116363
the government doesn't want you to know this but you can just plant seeds anywhere on the planet without owning the land as long as the land owners or authorities don't catch you

>>5116375
AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
IS THAT...
NOT GRASS???????
>mows your lawn
>pulls out your weeds