Graceless Hippo @GracelessHippo@mas.to

#introductions

Hello folks I'm a maladjusted Hippo who likes to do music with my guitar.

I'm afraid my posts will almost certainly contain cats, bad guitar, kid lamentations, gratuitous FROOOOT and the graphic description of leavings. Both mine and those of the various animals /people it is my privilege to follow after with a shovel.

Me shoulders are made of broken crockery and sellotape. And me timeline is bloody daft at best.

ARE YOU IN?! ME NEITHER! 😬 🎉

@plants forgot to tag this thread with the appropriate tags

#hydroponics
#orchid
#HousePlants

@plants

The take home notes are;

Yes, they respond very well to this.

Change the water weekly.

Feed at the same time.

Don't try dry spells of 2 days as some articles suggest (this caused a flower spike to wither)

Don't crowd the containers (this encourages disease)

@plants

Nearly a year ago I started an experiment to see how my ailing orchids would stand switching from standard potted medium (wood chip and free drainage) to hydroponics.

10 months on I have my answer.

As I started this experiment in twitter, I've added my notes there. The full thread is linked below.

https://twitter.com/GracelessHippo/status/1472918498225672196?t=yeq8NpaD_nvnCTpA_5qcDQ&s=19

Haven't read Pandora's Star in years. But I love the build up of it. It's a well fleshed out dystopian human future. Well worth a dive into if space opera sci-fi is your bag.

"From the bestselling author of 'Nights Dawn' trilogy...

Britain's best selling SF writer returns to outer space"

Food & eye contact

fruit
Fruit
FRUIT
#FROOOOT