This week in science ( mander.xyz )
Bird flu: https://bit.ly/3VcvnsY & https://bit.ly/3VfS7bn...
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Bird flu: https://bit.ly/3VcvnsY & https://bit.ly/3VfS7bn...
I have a very powerful sense of smell.
My Pothos got a bit long and dropped leaves in the middle of its stem. I didn't want to cut it directly since in my experience it would drop more leaves on the newly cut piece, so I wanted to try air layering. I've never done air layering before and didn't want to use sphagnum moss, so I gave it a try with coco coir....
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/12777132
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I got a weird problem involving both of my cats (Siegfrieda, to the left; Kika, to the right)....
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/12578824...
Not an ad or anything but I got it from light.bio if you're curious. Super cool product, I've been waiting for a company to successfully bring a bioluminescent plant to the market for a decade and it finally happened!
Anyone else here follow the three laws of robotics without realizing it?
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/10710348...
Context: my mum got some keikis of this orchid from a neighbour. She managed to grow them into a full plant, it even flowered (as per pic), but she has no idea on which species of orchid it is....
Weird patterning on these two odd leaves from two separate plants. The rest of the plants are fine with new growth. I recently let it dry out a bit as I got caught up with life, could be a cause, but it seems like it's a possible nutrient issue. I did feed it recently.
cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/6856540...
Before & after. Ingredients labelled within the before photo. Apologies for poor quality 'after' photo. I didn't take the pic with the intention of sharing, it was originally just for my own future reference....