They are all going to be Xmas presents for loved ones except for the black jewel box with the gold gingko leaves - that's for me. I really needed a place to stash my trinkets.
Very pretty, Natasha! I wish I had the talent/patience to do something like that.
My hobbies include anything outside (hiking, mountain biking, snowboarding, running trails, camping, all that sort of good stuff). But now that it is winter, and the days are so short, I play a few video games here and there, read, and play music (guitar, flute, piano, violin).
I also like photography, and will hopefully be getting some more lenses for my Nikon soon!
Thanks guys! I love painting - even though I've got no training in fine arts or any art for that matter. I have a thing for boxes and they are such a good blank slate - you can go in any direction you want and they still look pretty decent at the end. I'm working on another one right now - I salvaged a big metal box from work (they were throwing it away) I'll post pics as soon as it's finished. Gotta run!
Lol I'm horrid at starting things and not finishing them (if you couldn't already tell if you've been on the forum long enough) I'd buy all the materials and get bored before finishing a page.
Jen, I just took a look at you original post. I guess I didn't look at it carefully, but it looks like you have a Cattelya orchid. It needs light, lots and lots of light. I supplement all my orchids with CFLs - 16 hours a day!!! EVERYDAY! Currently, I have 2 Dendrobiums and 1 Phal/Den in bloom. Prior to the additional lighting, I was only getting 1 or 2 orchids a year to bloom. Since I started supplementing light, I have had 3 to 5 orchids in bloom at all times. Much more in the spring.
Also, my plants started doing better when I started to take them out in the summer. The outdoors does WONDERS for all of my orchids. Of course, fertilize, weekly, weakly. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Dynagrow!
Sorry about making that other thread I did a search, but I didn't do the search right ah well.
Well my two main hobbies are growing carnivorous plants artwork type things..
I grow american carnivorous plants and tropical plants my outdoor ones are the easiest right now, but since I've gotten a shoplight on their shelf the tropical ones are perking up a bit more. My favorite ones have to be my Nepenthes(asian pitcher plants) I have 8 different ones most of them are highlanders only two are lowlanders. My favorite Nepenthes I own is my N izumeae x xtrusmadiensis it's a hybrid seedling and so far it's growing pretty steadily also I really like my N.bicalcarata because it has two fangs on it's pitchers, but since it's a lowlander it can be a bit slugish during winter since it likes hot and humid conditions.
I added a few pictures of my plants the first one is my first mini bog I made it has 10 typical flytraps(the kind you see in the wild and in most plant stores), on the sides is a red dragon flytrap(it has a red maroon color to it and as it gets older it has green on the edge of the trap), dente(shorter teeth and more triangle) in the middle a purple pitcher Venosa, and the pitcher plant in the back is a dana's delight. The mini bog now is pretty boring since everything is dormant, but that's kinda why I love growing the tropical kind and I have some flytrap seedlings that I pollinated my red dragon and dente flytrap I skiped their dormancy to keep them growing all winter and this growing season.
The second picture is my N.sanguinea orange I got at Lowes I have another one that I got at a online site that's bigger then this one it's a great Nepenthes, but likes to drool nector alot which tastes really sweet.
I hope this spring my mini bog go through it ok and grows since this is my first time from the looks of it my pitcher plant will have some flowers so I can't wait to take pictures of them.
Venus flytraps are my favorites too I really like all the types they have out so far only ones I have are typicals, dente, red dragon, and cup traps. I hope to get some Guava sawtooth flytraps I didn't knew there was so many types of flytraps out there intill I found a carnivorous forum which some people were showing off their plants.
Flytraps and american pitcher plants are easy to take care of pot them in fertilizer free sphagnum peat, some fertilizer free perlite for drainage, and keep it moist with rain water or distilled water also full sun is a must they grow great in it though when you first get one from a store you have to keep it in the shade and gradually give it more sunlight to get it used to it.
I got some American pitcher plant seeds from a friend since spring while be here in a few month I'm going to get them potted and put them somewhere cold intill spring comes I think it takes like three years to get the size of the pitcher plant I have in the mini bog, but if all 30 seeds sprout and survive that'll be great. Probably sometime around summer I'll post a thread with pictures of the seedlings, and of my other plants.
Barbara - thanks for the orchid info! Mine is still going strong - and green - no flowers for about 3 years now! I'm going to start fertilizing, and I'm going to move it to a sunnier spot in the house. Hopefully I can post some blossom spam in the future!
Don't be afraid to put it up next to the window. I know all the books and magazines say that's a no no, and that's true if you live in a tropical climate. Mine are RIGHT up to the window (South and West Exposure) and LOVE it.
Nicole - What skill level would you say is needed to take proper care of a pitcher plant? Errik wants to get one.
We got a momotaro tomato plant and an aloe vera plant now. Let's see if we could keep them alive. You know I have a black thumb if I manage to kill an aloe vera plant lmao.
My mom just sent me a miniature rose for my birthday as well as some weird other flower and a couple of green plants...
The rose is already dead (only a month later)... and I tried everything I could to keep it alive!!! The other flowering plant is on the way out too...
The Ivy and random green 'thing' are doing great - I guess I'm just better with no flowers! Also got a Tulip plant from my boss last week, so ... who knows how that'll go!
hobbies during school year: living on internet, video games, art, visiting puppy stores to relieve stress (though now its just making me more stressful because i feel sorry for them)
hobbies during breaks: swimming, adoring my fluffy poof of a cat. fencing, internet, games, art, biking, hanging out with friends, (ones i don't do as often) : whitewater rafting, spelunking, hiking, paintball, lasertag.
: D
I hope to add loving and playing with a puppy too.
Brittney - Visiting puppy stores does not relieve stress! lol. There was this alaskan malamute at the mall today and oh man, if only he wasn't a puppy mill dog. He was absolutely gorgeous and he was so free spirited. He would've fit in perfectly in this family. I really hope the people who were interested in him doesn't buy him. They had 2 small kids that were banging on all the cages and running around like lunatic screaming. I could so see a scenario of kid tortures dog, dog fights back, dog gets put to sleep for defending self.
As for "other" things, besides my pup and cats...we enjoy camping, fishing, and road trips (mostly to Idaho), although we do go out to the Washington coast several times a year. In the spring and summer I love gardening (I've got a rather large veggie garden I tend to every year), I also do canning and jam making in the late summer. Other things to keep my occupied typically include reading, internet (avid surfer), collecting/restoring vintage and antique radios, and when I'm in the mood I'll pick up the game remote and play a few games..just to keep the brain/eye hand coordination up to speed! :0)
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My hobbies include anything outside (hiking, mountain biking, snowboarding, running trails, camping, all that sort of good stuff). But now that it is winter, and the days are so short, I play a few video games here and there, read, and play music (guitar, flute, piano, violin).
I also like photography, and will hopefully be getting some more lenses for my Nikon soon!
I love painting - even though I've got no training in fine arts or any art for that matter.
I have a thing for boxes and they are such a good blank slate - you can go in any direction you want and they still look pretty decent at the end.
I'm working on another one right now - I salvaged a big metal box from work (they were throwing it away)
I'll post pics as soon as it's finished.
Gotta run!
Someone slap me.
*silently chants, start scrapbooking, start scrapbooking*
Also, my plants started doing better when I started to take them out in the summer. The outdoors does WONDERS for all of my orchids. Of course, fertilize, weekly, weakly. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Dynagrow!
Well my two main hobbies are growing carnivorous plants artwork type things..
I grow american carnivorous plants and tropical plants my outdoor ones are the easiest right now, but since I've gotten a shoplight on their shelf the tropical ones are perking up a bit more. My favorite ones have to be my Nepenthes(asian pitcher plants) I have 8 different ones most of them are highlanders only two are lowlanders. My favorite Nepenthes I own is my N izumeae x xtrusmadiensis it's a hybrid seedling and so far it's growing pretty steadily also I really like my N.bicalcarata because it has two fangs on it's pitchers, but since it's a lowlander it can be a bit slugish during winter since it likes hot and humid conditions.
I added a few pictures of my plants the first one is my first mini bog I made it has 10 typical flytraps(the kind you see in the wild and in most plant stores), on the sides is a red dragon flytrap(it has a red maroon color to it and as it gets older it has green on the edge of the trap), dente(shorter teeth and more triangle) in the middle a purple pitcher Venosa, and the pitcher plant in the back is a dana's delight. The mini bog now is pretty boring since everything is dormant, but that's kinda why I love growing the tropical kind and I have some flytrap seedlings that I pollinated my red dragon and dente flytrap I skiped their dormancy to keep them growing all winter and this growing season.
The second picture is my N.sanguinea orange I got at Lowes I have another one that I got at a online site that's bigger then this one it's a great Nepenthes, but likes to drool nector alot which tastes really sweet.
I hope this spring my mini bog go through it ok and grows since this is my first time from the looks of it my pitcher plant will have some flowers so I can't wait to take pictures of them.
I know it's really cliche but I've always wanted a Venus Flytrap! ~
Flytraps and american pitcher plants are easy to take care of pot them in fertilizer free sphagnum peat, some fertilizer free perlite for drainage, and keep it moist with rain water or distilled water also full sun is a must they grow great in it though when you first get one from a store you have to keep it in the shade and gradually give it more sunlight to get it used to it.
I got some American pitcher plant seeds from a friend since spring while be here in a few month I'm going to get them potted and put them somewhere cold intill spring comes I think it takes like three years to get the size of the pitcher plant I have in the mini bog, but if all 30 seeds sprout and survive that'll be great. Probably sometime around summer I'll post a thread with pictures of the seedlings, and of my other plants.
I'm going to start fertilizing, and I'm going to move it to a sunnier spot in the house.
Hopefully I can post some blossom spam in the future!
We got a momotaro tomato plant and an aloe vera plant now. Let's see if we could keep them alive. You know I have a black thumb if I manage to kill an aloe vera plant lmao.
The rose is already dead (only a month later)... and I tried everything I could to keep it alive!!! The other flowering plant is on the way out too...
The Ivy and random green 'thing' are doing great - I guess I'm just better with no flowers! Also got a Tulip plant from my boss last week, so ... who knows how that'll go!
I'm also going to start going to a cardio kickboxing class twice a week so that'll be interesting.
hobbies during breaks: swimming, adoring my fluffy poof of a cat. fencing, internet, games, art, biking, hanging out with friends, (ones i don't do as often) : whitewater rafting, spelunking, hiking, paintball, lasertag.
: D
I hope to add loving and playing with a puppy too.
As for "other" things, besides my pup and cats...we enjoy camping, fishing, and road trips (mostly to Idaho), although we do go out to the Washington coast several times a year. In the spring and summer I love gardening (I've got a rather large veggie garden I tend to every year), I also do canning and jam making in the late summer. Other things to keep my occupied typically include reading, internet (avid surfer), collecting/restoring vintage and antique radios, and when I'm in the mood I'll pick up the game remote and play a few games..just to keep the brain/eye hand coordination up to speed! :0)
One of my most recent radio projects: