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What is Your Pet Doing Right Now?

Boogs said:
Oh yeah, in case I'm not totally patronising you! When it gets to winter time, they often appear to be dying, but in fact are just 'hibernating', and will often 'recover' in the spring when conditions improve (obviously need to protect if you get frosts etc, better indoors over winter, I suspect). Apparently a lot of people mistakenly throw them out :eek: :) thinking they've had it! :cry:

For watering, I use a saucer under the pot and fill from there normally, and let it soak into the 'soil'. It's apparently good for the roots to let the water run out for a day or more from time to time, to encourage them to grow in search of better supply of water, but don't let the soil dry out! It's quite sponge like (mine is anyway) and absorbs a lot, but in the window on a sunny day, evaporates much quicker.
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I live in an appartment, I think the dry soil brought mine down. :cryingcat: They also don't love the darkness of my appartment, I can only keep low light junglish ones and ones who dont mind a bit of overwatering and underwatering.

My basils were doing the worst, they truly love gardens.
 
All-Rounder said:
I live in an appartment, I think the dry soil brought mine down. :cryingcat: They also don't love the darkness of my appartment, I can only keep low light junglish ones and ones who dont mind a bit of overwatering and underwatering.

My basils were doing the worst, they truly love gardens.
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Ah! Yes, they love the sun, and they love the water, but also the soil they use is pretty particular, and I've heard trying to feed them at all, actually damages them! Have you thought of trying picture plants? I think they manage much better on poor light. I'm really tempted to try one of those next, so beautiful!
Sundew are meant to be pretty tricky, though I used to find them growing wild in Northumberland, in peat bogs growing on the moss. But very small.

Basil? You mean the herb? (I'm really not a gardener at all! :)). I found it grows like crazy in the summer, but rest of the time, not a peek outta them. I think greek basil worked the best for me, and once it gets going, it grows like crazy, very dense with those small leaves.
 
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Boogs said:
Ah! Yes, they love the sun, and they love the water, but also the soil they use is pretty particular, and I've heard trying to feed them at all, actually damages them! Have you thought of trying picture plants? I think they manage much better on poor light. I'm really tempted to try one of those next, so beautiful!
Sundew are meant to be pretty tricky, though I used to find them growing wild in Northumberland, in peat bogs growing on the moss. But very small.

Basil? You mean the herb? (I'm really not a gardener at all! :)). I found it grows like crazy in the summer, but rest of the time, not a peek outta them. I think greek basil worked the best for me, and once it gets going, it grows like crazy, very dense with those small leaves.
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Ah, Pitcher Plants? You should get them! They'd look good together. They're just not for me, they will die easily from my underwatering lol. I'll save some plant lives. I feel like I don't have enough bugs here either for them. My previous pitchers have miserably dried. If I have a surviving one, I give it away to someone else in hopes their watering habits are better. Some plants were saved that way!

Yep, basil the spice herb. They are at most biennal (some species only), so they're very reliable on the seed and fecundation. My favorite spice, yet very difficult for indoors.
 
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Venus gets a friend. My second cat substitute!

Well Pitcher That! (a lunchtime tale)
Gather round now children, I have a tale to tell,
About a sorry little fly, who fell into my well.
It thought the juicy sweetness, glistening round my mouth,
Was just the very tastiest thing, then suddenly fell south!
Spa-lish spa-losh, it ended in my stomachs acid juices,
And luckily for me, my nutrition it produces!
 
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