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Post by amanitovirosa on Jun 26, 2016 19:04:45 GMT -5
...I know it's nice to share our successes with everyone here but I thought I'd start one of these to share our collective failures. Was just doing some house cleaning today and this is what I was left with. Hopefully this thread won't get too much action, but condolences always take a bit of the bite away. Most of these losses are absolutely my fault but it's my thought that, by experimenting one gains knowledge. This thread is for all of the Fallen Soldiers, where's my kleenex ...if you can, don't post in this thread!!! Cheers. AV.
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Post by amanitovirosa on Jun 26, 2016 19:10:08 GMT -5
...Tarantulalover, why do you like my post???, you should hate it, I do...
AV.
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Post by WillyCKH on Jun 26, 2016 19:39:40 GMT -5
It takes great courage for one to admit his/her failures. We all live and learn!
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Post by amanitovirosa on Jun 26, 2016 19:44:08 GMT -5
...thanks Willy, you still shouldn't like this thread, no one should.
AV.
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Post by amanitovirosa on Jun 26, 2016 20:33:29 GMT -5
...the ones I lost due to my own fault I'm kind of ok with. It's the ones where I thought I was doing everything right and the plant still died, those are the ones that hurt the most. Cue the funeral horn section... ...ta da dada Da dada dada dada...
AV.
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Post by shoggoths on Jun 26, 2016 21:07:11 GMT -5
Sorry for your lost G.
Perhaps you should consider putting media in the tray and insert the pot in it? Like sphagnum, perlite, sand, styrofoam (cedar mulch ?) ... anything to limit evaporation ... Just a thought.
Good luck
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Post by amanitovirosa on Jun 26, 2016 21:25:02 GMT -5
...hey Shogg, I know exactly what you mean. As I was cleaning house and re-arranging things, I just put all of my dead plants in that tray so I could properly document everything after. My Dead Pool, that is not how I had them when they died. Thanks for your kind thoughts.
AV.
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Post by lloyd on Jun 26, 2016 22:03:20 GMT -5
I can't even remember all the plants I've killed, seed that never germinated and TC that got contaminated.
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Post by danyoh on Jun 27, 2016 0:28:09 GMT -5
I've killed (with help of some birds) 4 pings, 1 Drosera, and a flytrap excluding the plants that came back to life of course!
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Post by hal on Jun 27, 2016 12:36:11 GMT -5
I put a few pings out for the garden tour last weekend. They were in a shallow pot saucer, partial sun, well watered. By the next morning they were toast. Going from inside straight into the summer sun fried them. Fortunately they were just a pile of spare moranensis from leaf pullings.
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Post by shoggoths on Jun 27, 2016 13:03:52 GMT -5
I put a few pings out for the garden tour last weekend. They were in a shallow pot saucer, partial sun, well watered. By the next morning they were toast. Going from inside straight into the summer sun fried them. Fortunately they were just a pile of spare moranensis from leaf pullings. Same thing for me with a ceph It is growing back from it's roots but really got toasted in a day or two.
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Post by morphman on Jun 27, 2016 16:11:35 GMT -5
AV I don't even know what to say and where to begin. I feel your pain and hopes nobody feels mine.
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Post by bradmon on Aug 19, 2016 13:31:26 GMT -5
I just got started, so everything i do makes me scared that Im messing up. lol. Admitting failure is tough, but accepting it tougher...IMO. keep at it, bud...
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Post by Dennis Z on Aug 20, 2016 12:36:06 GMT -5
Interestingly, I don't recall killing many plants. Except for this one time: I completely wiped out some plants when I first started growing temperate carnivorous plants. I took my whole collection out from dormancy too early and every pot froze solid at -20 degrees (Ah, Canada..). Many Sarracenia and all my VFTs kicked the bucket but the one plant that did survive was my Sarracenia purpurea subsp. purpurea grown from a single seed harvested up north in Canada.
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lauren
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Post by lauren on Aug 21, 2016 22:38:15 GMT -5
I've killed all of my VFTs. I thought they would be happy outside direct sun all day everyday during this beautiful Southern Ontario summer, just as they had last year. .....I came home one day to charcoaled remains.... Thank you Global Warming!!!!!!!!!!!
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