Thanks for jumping in Shawn..

Any houseplant info you can add in here will be greatly appreciated.

Try small dishes of vineger and sugar combo. close to your plants.

Sugar and vinegar..sounds interesting. I'll give it a try and let you
know how I make out.. thank you Ping.

Shawn, I saw much the same thing when I visited a Pizza place.
There was some type of a 24" urn looking thing with vines coming from it and growing along the fake wooden beams on the ceiling. The vines were maybe a dozen feet long, and caked with grease and dust, making them look extremely unhealthy. I felt bad for them!

I was dating a girl several years back and as we were walking to my car, she said we had to stop at her girlfriend's condo a few doors down. Introductions made, I saw that in her front window, she had a fishnet of sorts where the curtain would be and TIED in the middle of the net was an English Ivy, in it's original 6" pot and having vines that were maybe 10 feet long PAPER CLIPPED to the net! there were roots coming a good 4 inches from the bottom of the pot, and when we closed the door upon entering the house, a Shower of leaves fell from the vines. I offered to 'fix' the plant and to bring her a 10 or 12" clay pot I had at the house, saying that in an hour or so, she'd have a healthy plant as I had the Miracle Grow potting mix and I could take the dead leaves off etc.

Rule #1 when dealing with people you just met. Never tell them that you know more than they do about plants. She declined my offer saying the plant was 'perfectly fine' where it was and as it was. She later told the girlfriend I should keep my opinions to myself!

If you can, Shawn, post some pics of your plants here..
and other folks too if interested..

I have NO computer skills to do that stuff..
ALMOST couldn't post my profile pic.

re charlieh420:
my spiders are doing 'ok'.
Had a flood in my place so the restorers came in to fix things up. During the first part, they managed to kill my ficus in only 9 days that i was gone.
So I took baby spiders - one of each kind - and put them in the top of a 2L bottle of pop. (Is that a gallon in your language?) The 'mother' plants I tossed outside. The bottle was filled with water.
Somebody pulled them out and left them on the counter.
So stuck them back in the water and altho very floppy, they are at least not turning brown.

My living room / dining room looks like a greenhouse! 62 corn seedlings, watermelon, peppers, shallots, onions, morning glories, sweet peas, beans, and some others are awaiting the warmer weather to go outside. This is so neat!!!
I will be giving a lot of the corn seedlings away.
The garlic has over-wintered and I will wait until maybe July to see how it is doing. My onions will be inter-planted with it.
Happy growing to all!

Phili has (make that had) 2 yellow leaves just above the root ball that were laying directly on the soil. I hope I'm not keeping it too wet. Thing dried out, I watered, and then the leaves turned yellow in 2 or 3 days.

Don't forget the miracle grow and of course plants do like music.

Congratulations on that! I've brought back some plants from near disaster, but with the different light at this apartment, I'm having to do things differently..

I should add to the Miracle grow comment above that it retains water to the point that in some cases promotes root rot..

A guy on one site uses MG African Violet Mix exclusively for all his plants, and swears by it..

Of course, I also added a Jade and Aloe which have their own temperments and schedules and don't like to be wet at all.. 10-12 days btw waterings..
The Spider, I put in a self-watering pot, in MG mix, leaving the water out for 24 hours so the chemicals can evaporate, and it's not doing well at all..

Clearly a case of point and shoot without aiming first!

I looked at those yesterday, but Garden Web forums advise against spikes in general bc they're not uniform as to feeding..

Ended up with the MG powder.. weak mix with every watering.. old habits die hard.

Also saw some 3 foot Sans at Walmart yesterday for 12 bucks.. all healthy.

I think they Had just arrived because they were for the most part, still Dry as compared to the Water World of all the other plants there..taking a ride over today to see what's new there..

The way I read it Shawn, was that the spikes concentrate the feeding to one area as they break down, leading to root burning etc., and I've seen it happen in that English Ivy I've had for a few years.. ugly as hell.. now it's just a stock plant.
The MG powder I've been using for years. I put one scoop from the small end of the spoon to a gallon of water.. can't use on the succulents tho'..

Breaking up a small jade today to let dry out before doing the Bonsai thing to it.. just have to find a fast-draining medium...

NICE TO SEE THAT LITTLE CUTIE ON YOUR ARM...
I guess you're plowing all day And Night now!

NICE TO SEE THAT LITTLE CUTIE ON YOUR ARM...
I guess you're plowing all day And Night now!

And when CT had a 21 drinking age and RI an 18 age we made the 18 mile trip quite often

I don't do anything different with the plants. They get year round fun

Thanks for asking. Wasn't worth the effort. Probably 75% bust. I did get some good melons, peppers of all kinds, okra did great. Drought, extreme heat and bugs hit hard.

Sorry to hear that.. I think everybody got hurt in the drought this year..
Ever think of growing out some nursery stock?
Might pay you for your time in a bust year..
Google Mike McGroarty.. I saw him years ago in Mother Earth mag
and now he's all over the net..
Grows plants til mature, then takes a few hundred cuttings from them and
grows them out.. gets $5.00 per gallon pot, in his driveway..

Does the same with Japanese maples..
Buys young stock for 75 cents per slip..
Throws them in the ground.. sells in all stages of growth..
$5.00-$80.00 for mature..

1000 of those guys could make up for a lean couple of years..
There's at Least your next pick-up in it for ya..
Just make it a Chevy dammit!

Shawn.. how's the garlic? Is that a Long-term thing?