It’s Monday at #TheWateringHole and I’m unmotivated… thin...
It’s Monday at #TheWateringHole and I’m unmotivated… thinking I need a new hashtag like #UnMotivatedMonday or #MopeyMonday 😮💨 We’ve got #untidyTuesday so why not!?!🥴Typically I’ve got pics of pretty new things doin’ their thang, but lately not so much 🤷♀️ 🤪. I think the recent mealy bug/thrip discovery has left me feeling deflated. It won’t last but it’s a real thing for me, now & then. Figuring others probably feel this way too sometimes. It’s not always ☀️ 🌈 & 💐 people, right? 🤪 So rant over (I’m feeling better already 🫣) and here’s a pic of one of my plants that’s got his #UnMotivatedMonday going on too! Syngoniums were OG plants for me, 💚 them! Then slowly they all turned into long stringy, pathetic vines. I got rid of all but this bitty Panda. We both have #MopeyMonday. I need motivation. She never gets long enough to chop & prop. She did pop a new leaf up at the soil line so I’m hopeful there🤞. Anything going on in your oasis that’s got you feeling frustrated or defeated? It’s officially #MopeyMonday!! 🤪 😆 😂 #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #NewGrowth #PlantTherapy #Syngonium #SyngoniumSquad
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@MariansOasis I'm sorry you're feeling down in the dumps. It feels almost like every other day for me so you're not alone. 😔 But the good thing is we're here for each other and it really does help to vent and get it out. 🫶 I've lived in San Antonio for almost 3 years and I still don't have any real life friends. But I've got you and all the other wonderful planty people here. 💚🪴 And about the plants...Have you ever seen one of these?? Hahaha I cringe every time I look in its direction. 🫤 It is what it is but I'm not going to give up until it's brown and bald!! 😂
@princesspitstop lololololol I had a scindapsus that could’ve been its twin I gave up on it and rehomed it. It was actually 3 that I gave away because I kept trying to chop & prop 😑 🤪
My heart goes out to you too regarding lack of real friends. I didn’t realize how much I shared and confided in with my work friends until I was retired about a year. Conversations with my husband just aren’t the same haha. He’s great at the small talk but anything deeper, unless it’s fishing ofc, I get the glazed eyes 😵💫 look. We’ve been in our house 30 years but in So CA, long term relationships are tough. So many people move away especially our retired friends and family due to housing prices, cost of living etc. We have 1 nephew close by. Our daughter and SIL too but they’re going to WA to check out places to live 😬. So it gets a little lonely sometimes. Wish we planty friends were all closer together!!
My heart goes out to you too regarding lack of real friends. I didn’t realize how much I shared and confided in with my work friends until I was retired about a year. Conversations with my husband just aren’t the same haha. He’s great at the small talk but anything deeper, unless it’s fishing ofc, I get the glazed eyes 😵💫 look. We’ve been in our house 30 years but in So CA, long term relationships are tough. So many people move away especially our retired friends and family due to housing prices, cost of living etc. We have 1 nephew close by. Our daughter and SIL too but they’re going to WA to check out places to live 😬. So it gets a little lonely sometimes. Wish we planty friends were all closer together!!
@MariansOasis I know what you mean about the husband haha they try ❤️ I get the same glazed look when he talks about golf or bit coin! hahaha It does seem like all of you guys that I wish I lived near are on the West Coast. 🫤
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Oof, I feel you two! I’ve also been noticing watering notification inconsistencies like we were talking about in that other thread. I have some plants absolutely wilting from dehydration and then I check their page and think there’s no way that I watered them only two weeks ago, this looks like it’s been way longer!
I also have three identical in every way coffee plants that will eventually end up getting water notifications on different days 😵💫
ANYHOO. I was feeling very upset about my broadmite infestation, but the thing that’s giving me my motivation back is setting up all these cultures or breeding containers for my predatory mites (N. cucumeris) that got here on Friday. I now have 10 individual containers for them to breed in plus one BIG BOI Tupperware container that contains multiple.
I also just got my new microscope. I was feeling very frustrated with my last one because it was supposed to connect to my computer for picture downloading, but neither my PC nor my laptop recognized it as a device!! 😠😤 So this new one is supposed to connect to my phone… I am feeling very excited to get some good pictures here momentarily!!
Oof, I feel you two! I’ve also been noticing watering notification inconsistencies like we were talking about in that other thread. I have some plants absolutely wilting from dehydration and then I check their page and think there’s no way that I watered them only two weeks ago, this looks like it’s been way longer!
I also have three identical in every way coffee plants that will eventually end up getting water notifications on different days 😵💫
ANYHOO. I was feeling very upset about my broadmite infestation, but the thing that’s giving me my motivation back is setting up all these cultures or breeding containers for my predatory mites (N. cucumeris) that got here on Friday. I now have 10 individual containers for them to breed in plus one BIG BOI Tupperware container that contains multiple.
I also just got my new microscope. I was feeling very frustrated with my last one because it was supposed to connect to my computer for picture downloading, but neither my PC nor my laptop recognized it as a device!! 😠😤 So this new one is supposed to connect to my phone… I am feeling very excited to get some good pictures here momentarily!!
@capsong Of course I had to look too after Heidi said that @princesspitstop 😂😂 And OMG!! What variety of tradescantia is this?? 😱🤯🤩😍
@DreamMachine 😵💫 yes, identical plants in identical exposures getting watered on different days or different volumes 😑😬!
I’ll be do interested to see how things go with the predatory mites! Do they like yeast and bee pollen 🐝?? I might have to try out a microscope 🔬 It could go either way for me though- either excited to see there’s nothing there, or freaking out that I’ve been missing!! 🤣🤪😜😆😝
I’ll be do interested to see how things go with the predatory mites! Do they like yeast and bee pollen 🐝?? I might have to try out a microscope 🔬 It could go either way for me though- either excited to see there’s nothing there, or freaking out that I’ve been missing!! 🤣🤪😜😆😝
@DreamMachine YES!!! Just like my 4 Monstera!!! I water them on the same day and the next water notification they are on different days!!! What the heck???
@DreamMachine Wait though, what are we doing with bee pollen and yeast?? I mean besides baking some killer bread ☺️
@princesspitstop @MariansOasis also, I really like #MopeyMonday 😂 It works perfectly for me because it’s always my first day off after my work week and I always have very little energy 🥱😵💫 I mean, still enough to be setting up a new microscope and checking on my predatory mites…🤣 But I am still Le Tired! 😴
@princesspitstop @MariansOasis yes! So each packet of predatory mites has those bran flakes (you can see on my cotton rounds), then in that bran are bran mites which are feeder mites for my predatory cucumeris mites. So the bran feeds the bran mites, and the bran mites feed the cucumeris mites so they’re not dead upon arrival.
So when you are culturing predatory mites like I am and trying to raise them so they have nice happy lives and get married and settle down and have babies and stick around for me, my cultures need something to feed the bran mites and the cucumeris mites just in case they want an extra snack.
So the bran mites love yeast, and the cucumeris mites will also feed on pollen if needed!
A lovely predatory mite cultured bread recipe 🤣🤣
So when you are culturing predatory mites like I am and trying to raise them so they have nice happy lives and get married and settle down and have babies and stick around for me, my cultures need something to feed the bran mites and the cucumeris mites just in case they want an extra snack.
So the bran mites love yeast, and the cucumeris mites will also feed on pollen if needed!
A lovely predatory mite cultured bread recipe 🤣🤣
@DreamMachine wow the backbone’s connected to the thigh bone, the thigh bone’s connected to the hip bone…. Lots of steps for the mites. Interesting how it all works!
@MariansOasis right? Sounds like lots of steps, but after making 10 culture containers it seems like a very simple and easy way to continuously have a predatory mite population for use!
I soldered some holes in the lids so they can ‘escape’ (onto my plants). @MusicalRedmint gave me the idea, and sent me this fabulous video about it.
(If you’re interested of course): https://youtu.be/syXq5D-dhbI?is=pt3N7gDq4yF-AbEE
For me, it makes the part about beneficial insects that I got hung up about (the cost, and having to keep buying them) all the more accessible and affordable!
I soldered some holes in the lids so they can ‘escape’ (onto my plants). @MusicalRedmint gave me the idea, and sent me this fabulous video about it.
(If you’re interested of course): https://youtu.be/syXq5D-dhbI?is=pt3N7gDq4yF-AbEE
For me, it makes the part about beneficial insects that I got hung up about (the cost, and having to keep buying them) all the more accessible and affordable!
Happy #unmotivatedmonday! I’ve got a migraine today so am slogging along like a sloth-turtle. I know that failure feeling- I’ve recently collapsed my second caladium, and am trying to rehab two expensive hoyas after a dumb moisture mishap on one, and the hubby accident with the other. It can be very discouraging! I set my hoyas up in a little greenhouse that makes it feel more like a science experiment rather than a failure. And I chopped all the leaves off the caladium and actually thinking of sticking it outside to see if it has the will to live! In happier news, we had some epic storms in Colorado last night and the skies were incredible! The horse is “Blucifer,” a piece of art near our airport that killed its maker during construction and now holds all of Colorado in a trance with its blue paint and LED red eyes.
@MamaLinne omg I was thinking that was THAT horse! It’s funny because right outside PDX airport we have a couple horse ‘statues’ too…but they’re made out of driftwood. First time I flew into Denver I thought—does every airport have horse statues? 🤔😂
@MamaLinne @MariansOasis @princesspitstop and remember! You are allowed to rename any struggling plant, a “rehab plant.” Absolve yourself of any and all guilt. You tried!! 🏆 🏅 but, it was a rehab plant, so 🤷♀️
(Doesn’t at ALL matter if you are rehabbing it from yourself 🤭😂🤣😜🤪)
(Doesn’t at ALL matter if you are rehabbing it from yourself 🤭😂🤣😜🤪)
I find myself in this head space frequently… but thankfully it doesn’t last long. It just takes a new leaf or a new plant to lift my spirits. That said, I do have a few challenging “kids” in my oasis. For example… I’ve just about given up on my tri color fitonia. She started out so cute…red, pink and green. Now she’s barely hanging on and no trace of red or pink left. 🥺😢.
@MamaLinne I had a similar situation with a caladium. I thought she was a goner. I put her in direct sun and staked up some of her drooping limbs and she made a comeback. Don’t give up… 🥰
