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Anonymous12/07/25, 17:38No.2852759/hgm/ Homegrownmen 408
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Anon12/07/25, 17:42No.2852760
the indoor winged bean flowers
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Anon12/07/25, 23:34No.2852791
Some of you guys must be fig growers right? It's pretty trendy? My soil sucks for vegetables so I've been reading a lot about trees with useful foliage like Chinese toon and strawberry gum. Fig leaves come up quite a bit in this discussion as being kinda similar to pandan. Is that really true? Do they smell and taste nice, or is it mostly planty with a hint of something nice? If you have any other suggestions I'd love to hear them.
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Anon12/09/25, 04:15No.2852908
What's up guys I'm gonna grow my own food next year. What are the best sources for info that isn't some retarded YouTuber nor 4chan paste bin of schizo shit post rantsI'm starting with two 4' x 8' x ~16" raised beds and soil from local nursery.
I want to grow enough lettuce onions tomato peppers carrots and more, family of 4.
Experience is hydroponic tomatoes in an apartment that turned out pretty good.
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Anon12/11/25, 21:22No.2853259
How it started:How it's going:
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Anon12/11/25, 21:28No.2853262
I'm trying an indoor herb garden again but I don't understand what I'm doing wrong when it comes to pruning.I clip off bits above the nodes, leaving enough leaves to keep taking in light, have the grow lights the right distance from the pots, I water from the bottom, etc and they're still leggy as fuck and and half of them are limp
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Anon12/12/25, 02:56No.2853310
Do one of you guys grow weed? I know it's looked down upon here.
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Anon12/12/25, 14:16No.2853365
is there any problem with spraying tobacco solution on my indoor crops? works pretty good amd the plants dont seem to mind. i hope the fruits wont give me nicotin poisoning...
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Anon12/13/25, 21:10No.2853646
I'm soon buying a house with enough land to stick one of these things on them. Planning on getting a 5x20m model (roughly 16x65 feet). What's the best way to optimise crops in there. I was looking into hydroponics as well. I guess I could even try aquaponics. I even have some caves in which I could grow mushrooms.
What do you guys suggest? Any tips or resources for this plan of mine?
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Anon12/14/25, 20:04No.2853764
...could someone pretty please answer if its bad to spray tobacco solution? i know some dude ITT does it and i think i got the idea from some south american here. it works great but i am scared it might poison the chilis. nicotin is no joke if not smoked unironically.i guess it grows out?
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Anon12/15/25, 02:03No.2853808
Anyone have experience with lemon trees? I want to grow one but I live in Michigan so the climate isn't there.
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Anon12/15/25, 16:59No.2853908
no matter what the fuck I do these fuckers keep appearing back in my potted plants.I need a final solution
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Anon12/15/25, 21:50No.2853962
Remember to eat your seed before planting for next year lads.
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Anon12/16/25, 04:04No.2854019
Do you guys have any experience with ground cherries? Is there any easy way to support the branches and make them a little taller? If you don't know, imagine a tomato plant but half the height and twice the width, long horizontal branches.
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Anon12/18/25, 10:09No.2854336
next problem: what is it and how do i murder it? i think it might be some fungus.
this is starting to piss me off.
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Anon12/18/25, 12:24No.2854356
im getting ready to start sweet potato slips, does the size of the sweet potato matter? im using sweet potatoes i grew last year that all originated from the same sweet potato and i have big ones i could use but i also have some really small ones that are already sprouting slips just sitting in storage. since the plants dna is the same the little ones should be fine? i guess what im asking is if i use these little ones will they grow big ones?
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Anon12/19/25, 08:48No.2854467
I had to rip up a tomato plant I've been growing since June and I feel so sick to my stomach and ashamed of myself
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Anon12/19/25, 20:36No.2854515
any citroids growing some cold citrus do any of the lime ones actually taste like lime
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Anon12/19/25, 22:22No.2854528
Should I prioritize trees or grass and herbaceous plants for mulch and biomass? I live in zone 5 Northeastern America.
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Anon12/21/25, 07:56No.2854678
Found some white oak acorns that the fuckass squirrels didn't get to back in September. Three months later they became sprouts, and just 6 days after sprouts they shot up this big.
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Anon12/22/25, 16:11No.2854905
i am going to start using primitive thermobaric weapons soon an the lice.at this point i think id enjoy seeing the entire thing BURN and start anew.
so this must be how god feels...m
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Anon12/25/25, 08:51No.2855213
i think id like to try one of those setups where you have a pot and then a pipe that leads to perlite or charcoal at the bottom and thats how you water it. anyone know what im retardedly referring to? what are those things called?
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Anon12/25/25, 20:43No.2855264
They be growing
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Anon12/25/25, 23:18No.2855283
The root balls were getting tied together, so I'm hoping that I didn't damage the two big ones. I definitely got the taproot of the big one at least.Never done trees before, but i tried a mix of potting soil with some dirt from the garden bed and another random patch. My thought is to help them acclimate to different soil types.
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Anon12/28/25, 22:31No.2855585
Not sure where to post this, checken /an/ and they don't have a farm thread, and this seemed like the best /out/ thread.
I just want some unbiased opinions and expertise if anyone's got any, I'm gonna be raising coturnix quail in my shed next month, they'll have 1.5 square feet each and I'll have 30 of them inside city limits.
And actually I guess I'm not even asking for people's opinions, I'm just here to rant about how RETARDED most quail farmers seem to be online. They all seem old and decrepit, they struggle to do basic math, that myshire farms guy acted like his math video on how much it costs per egg was really complicated but I did all the math in my head already before he said the answer and found a couple mistakes.And it's like, man, is this why quail eggs and meat are so expensive? It reminds me of those SMASHED and SLAMMED breeders, like they still do give their birds good conditions and stuff but so many of them cut corners and outright are just lazy.
But insomma, 20 dollars a year to raise a jumbo quail, I'm getting 30 of them and will get meat and eggs out of my shed. EZPZ.
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Anon12/30/25, 04:25No.2855753
I haven't seen humanure mentioned anywhere besides the OP. Has anyone here actually tried it or heard success stories?
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Anon12/31/25, 02:45No.2855876
Does/Has anyone grown fruit trees from seed? Would love to hear about it, my tism's flared up again
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Anon01/01/26, 23:41No.2856090
What plant is this?
https://youtu.be/bt03fdAYPZQ?t=822
Guy says "lettuce", but I've never seen a tower-like lettuce like those, and when I look it up, I get only tower-shaped pots for vertical gardening, but the guy doesn't seem to be using anything of the sort.
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Anon01/02/26, 00:27No.2856091
He got the mango first.
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Anon01/02/26, 00:28No.2856092
He only let the seed for me to plant another tree.
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Anon01/03/26, 00:10No.2856225
Fuck it. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna plant autumn olive.
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Anon01/04/26, 06:37No.2856365
Ended up becoming a master gardener.
Signed up for a bunch of webinars and workshops from my extension.
I noticed that abosrists and pesticide applicators renew their license through the extension.
-Wondering what anons think of their local extension office if you use it for things?
My extension is Penn State. They have a lot of classes about bee keeping and dairy. I feel like Penn State is too professional with its stuff and I think their fees could be cheaper. Given the government just gave land to colleges in each state and told them to use it for teaching the public about trades, farming and business.
-Also might an anon have an ISA study guide or ISA materials. Possibly pesticide applicators study materials?Anyways I hit a real low point . My last job sent me into an existential spiral and didn't bother gardening last season. I gave away all my seeds to my mom and dad though I think they are saving them because I think they know I'm just having a bad patch. My mom's sisters were upset that the grounds were looking ratty.
Ended up quitting my job in September.
I'm so done with human services and social work. I'm looking to get a job in plants and trees. Or if I get back into human services I'll either do part time, and or work with kids.
The only thing I did successfully is grow a clutch of chestnut saplings that didn't get chewed up by varmints.
I want to prune the apple trees around the home probably end of Jan or Feb.
Thanks anons , and thanks for reading my blog.
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Anon01/04/26, 17:14No.2856411
Zone 8 was too hot for my shiso and then winter came and caused them to flower and wilt resulting in tiny harvests.Who would think that a mint would be such a primadona.I need more pots because I want more basil.
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Anon01/04/26, 22:37No.2856447
Homestead-sisters, I just had a great idea.
Instead of doing all this extra work making those quail cages I saw online I'm gonna garbage pick a couple dressers off the side of the road for zero dollars, cut some pieces off, and then put a floor on them and wire doors on the front. BOOM, instant quail coops.
Man that is a life hack, even the pros spend all this money making a cage that is basically just a box, so what if I took boxes that people throw out monthly on the side of the road for free and stapled some wire to them?
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Anon01/05/26, 01:07No.2856461
>want fruit trees bit have no space
I could maybe do it at my grandma's house but she lives in the woods
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Anon01/05/26, 02:50No.2856465
I want to build plants that help retain moisture around the ground and provide shade. I need a little ecosystem TODAY since the epic drought is coming in soon. I'll keep my grass longer at least. I wanted to build green fences that aren't eyesores to me or my neighbors. I have a big property with a low fence and great soil but have little skill in planting things.
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Anon01/05/26, 09:01No.2856488
Starting seeds indoors now temperate season anons?
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Anon01/06/26, 01:08No.2856599
Have some dangerous trees to remove this season, the problem is that some of them are 300 foot tall, some have been wired previously but have snapped the half inch thick steel wires, and the price is got quoted to remove them is more than I even earned this year
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Anon01/07/26, 00:38No.2856704
Got a young apple tree about one inch at the base.
forgot to put a guard and rabbits ring barked it during the frost.
Is it a dead loss?
It's not a graft so I wondered if I can salvage it by doing something like cutting it down to he base and hoping it throws up new shoots?
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Anon01/10/26, 12:49No.2857052
Temperatures went down to -15 C two nights in the row with days at -10 C, ideal to test my fig overwinter protection, I might plant more if this works
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Anon01/10/26, 13:08No.2857054
What's the absolute minimum i need to into beekeeping?
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Anon01/11/26, 20:43No.2857270
so i have a stihl mm 55 tiller and a can of what i think is the correct fuel. i have this 2 stroke fuel used for a chainsaw, am i correct in being able to use it with the tiller as well? im not familiar with these sorts of engines
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Anon01/12/26, 00:26No.2857289
Anyone have an opinion on a Hybrid Still with a 30L capacity? Are all stills.(distillation) powered by gas or are there any that use coals? I always pictured them to be made of thick glass but they all appear to be metal drums. I'm interested in a hybrid still because I want to extract essential oils and concentrate alcohol mostly.
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Anon01/12/26, 03:21No.2857304
show me your garden fence. I have a rabbit problem
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Anon01/12/26, 13:32No.2857357
I have a rat problem. Every year those little shits demolish my tomatoes, take a chunk out of every one. Eat all the cucumber flowers every night so I get none. This year they attacked my carrots and chewed around the tops on nearly 40% of the crop, had to pull them all up and hope we can eat them all before they go bad.They're too fucking smart, traps don't usually work. But a new type I got this year with a heavy sliding drop door they can't lift, caught 2 big fat females in the same week. Was fucking chuffed. No damage to the tomatoes yet this season (touch wood)
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Anon01/13/26, 10:56No.2857471
Swallows migrating from the US and Canada.
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Anon01/13/26, 10:57No.2857472
There are a lot of them.
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Anon01/15/26, 21:10No.2857775
Hey /out/ first time poster here.
Asking on behalf of my mum.
She has a Swiss Cheese plant in her kitchen, had it for probably as long as I have been alive but it is dying now.
It has been withering for a few months and only has a few yellow leafs left.
I'm not sure what the cause is, it might have been related to some kind of bugs.
She's tried spraying it with a mixture stuff, not sure what. And I think she's put it in different soil twice but it is still dying.
Any help would be appreciated.
I can try and find out more. Thanks in advance.
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Anon01/16/26, 08:03No.2857819
Help me /grow/ you're my only hope.I have just taken ownership of a beautiful tall Wollemi pine. I intend to keep it outside but in a garden pot. It came with with this sphagnum moss-like mat over the soil. Should I keep that in place or do I need to be rid of it? I don't want to risk any rüt röt and I wonder if this is just how they package them for sale or if it's a good idea to keep it in place.It's a big tree and a fairly small pot, so the risk of the soil drying out quickly during summer is real as well, and the mat might prevent that. Once the roots get dry it's fucking gone. What do you think?
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Anon01/17/26, 18:05No.2857958
I have a lot of seeds to start a vegetable garden. I have only ever bought small plants but I'm feeling ambitious this time. Any tips on starting from seeds?
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Anon01/17/26, 20:29No.2857967
lice are eternal aren't they? like some lovecraftian little piece of shit. they do exist in multiple dimensions at once literally bending physical reality to their will. fuck them all.
fuck them all to death.
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Anon01/18/26, 17:32No.2858057
>trying to clear a new spot in the yard
>there's almost no soil at all, it's 18 inches of rocks
i hate builders so fucking much bros
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Anon01/20/26, 09:47No.2858240
Burp
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Anon01/23/26, 18:49No.2858704
middle of winter. perfect time to grow grass seed for spring in vegas. also, cheers to some anon from a year ago who said he would just go nuts with prickly pear clones if he had one. i have a massive mother prickly pear and installed a bunch of pads around the property last year. they grow up so fast.
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Anon01/24/26, 14:48No.2858807
Using giant knotweed or japanese knotweed as soil improvement plant, does it make any sense in any situation? So i'm not planning to do this and and i'm not advising anyone to do this since even if it could work, it's still very risky, would need absolute commitment for years and is propably illegal, depending of course on where you live. But still, the properties of these plants are somewhat interesting. They grow and spread extremely efficiently when they take hold, their roots go deep and wide preventing erosion and sucking water, minerals and nutrients from depths that few soft plants could ever, and the plant matter they create is easily biodegradable. Even if they are locally very invasive and hard to get rid off, they solely spread by their roots instead of seeds so the problems they cause would stay somewhat isolateable.
I have some personal experience from managing infestations of both plants with different severities and know that the green parts make excellent compost (as long as you cut them high enough that they won't just root straight back), in our current garden there's some giant hogweed in the corner ant the soil below that is the finest black mulch i've seen. I've seen an old parking lot turn into pic related within five years. The speed and efficiency these things turn dead wasteland into biomatter is simply astonishing.
So, let's say you have a plot of unmanageable land, like an old gravel pit or depleted agricultural field, that you just can't grow anything on. It doesn't have the moisture or nutrients to support most plants, nothing is protecting it from winds or eroding effects of heavy rain. Plant this. Leave it spread and flourish. After a decade or so, start cutting it down every couple weeks, leave the stems at spot to decay. Eventually it'll just wither out since you don't let it to photosynthesize enough to maintain itself. Once you have got rid of it you should have some very fine soil just waiting for the garden.
Any thoughts?
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Anon01/25/26, 17:19No.2858926
Getting ready for seed starting by building height adjustable supports for my Barrina grow lights. Last year I just stacked my trays on boxes. I also had the trays facing the other way last year so I could only get 2 per shelf.I made some sliding clamps using 1" PEX pipe cut into 1.5" long pieces and 1/4 of the circumference cut out using diagonal cutters. Then screwed the clamps onto 1x2 wood cut to the width of the rack (I should have gone a little wider to prevent wood splitting). For the cross beams I got some aluminum railing pickets from a second hand building supply store. I predrilled holes for the light clamps and larger holes on the ends to sit over screws I added to the wood to act as pins to keep the light from getting knocked off.I tested the light spacing after taking the photo and saw the spacing wasn't ideal for 3 trays and that I only need 1 light per tray. So I modified that one and finished supports for the other 2 racks. That leaves me enough lights for the top rack but that one will need to be built differently with no poles above the rack.
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Anon01/27/26, 00:57No.2859219
I'm getting very excited for my Portuguese Super Hero which I will be planting directly in the ground!
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Anon01/27/26, 22:07No.2859338
>the elites dont want to you know the sprouts from rosemary bushes on sidewalks
