I decided to try growing some plants this year. I have some watermelons, a handful of different kinds of flowers, and some bamboo. I just planted the seeds about 3-4 days ago and a couple of them are just starting to sprout.
Have you ever tried to grow anything? Was it an amazing victory or a horrible failure?
Here are pictures of the baby plants.
I haven’t counted my species list for a while but I have somewhere around 50-100 species of different plants, and few different cultivars for some of the species too 
I’m mostly interested in ferns but I have representatives from many other taxons/plant groups too 
If anyone wants a cool and low investment hobby that doesn’t require regular and constant activity, I recommend growing ferns from spores. Getting the growing medium somewhat sterile is the only part that’s a bit of a hassle. ‘Somewhat sterile’ meaning different molds and bacteria are completely okay, all you need is getting it free from competitive fern and moss spores and algae.
I might post pics of my fern babies later if I have time 
Cool. 
I considered growing mushrooms. I heard all you really need is a fresh mushroom to get spores from and an old log or something then they pretty much take over the rest of the work. Plus when they’re done you can eat them. 
You won’t be attracting any lolis with that.
I’m not really into plants because I haven’t botany.
Something like those pink oysters they sell on ebay might work out. They are some tropical species that grow in room temperatures just fine 
But in general growing mushrooms isn’t easy, especially if you want them to produce fruiting bodies (those visible edible parts). For that you need correct temperatures (I remember reading that some species need correct diurnal temperature fluctuation to start growing their fruiting bodies, not just constant cold) and humidity. These growing conditions might not be available near your house for the local mushroom species you might want to grow, unfortunately. At least here in the north, they (almost) all want to grow only during springs and autumns 
But if you think you might have the right amount of shade and enough humidity at your backyard, then you should give it a go, though. Just don’t keep your expectations too high for the first few trials and errors and don’t get too discouraged by what I said on former paragraph 
Here’s few tips I learned when I tried to grow Kuehneromyces mutabilis few years ago. This species grows in dead wood logs:
You need to keep everything absolutely sterile, meaning growing media, cutting tools, table surface etc.
You need to collect the spores from mature and healthy looking caps. For some species you might want to take the actual rhizome itself with sterile equipment from the inside parts of the mushroom.
You might want to try growing multiple tissue cultures first and inoculate (transferring of this grown tissue stuff) on the wood material later. This way you’ll avoid introducing the same amount of competitor spores from air as the wanted spores. The tissue would have much more mushroom cells so it gets a nice headstart to outcompete the other molds and mushrooms.
The first mushroom that wins the chunk of wood for themselves gets so good competition advantage that no other mushrooms can get in and start growing in that same part of wood later, until that mushroom has eaten pretty much everything it cans and starts dying off. For this reason the wood logs needs to be pressure cooked too, to kill off those species that might have already started growing their rhizomes inside the wood matter, they can’t be seen with naked eye.
Bonus: Don’t buy the ingredients you need for tissue cultures from the same pharmacy shop and don’t tell you’re going to grow mushrooms. They’ll just think you’re going to grow some illegal stuff because usually people don’t bother growing mushrooms themselves and instead just go pick them from somewhere 
Good luck if you’re ever going to give it a shot 
Yeah sure
Then it cost me a solid 650€ fine & got my only little baby plant incinerated
Now I just buy my plants from very nice friends.
hold on what-
(On a serious note, I’ll keep an eye on this topic, it might be helpful someday, thanks Nyyppa owo)
i did grow a lemon tree and some other random trees.
The ones i had that were beautiful are Acer palmatum and a Mimosa pudica (latin names since in spanish they change).
The acer was a red one with beautiful leaves, it didn’t grow a lot cuz we had it in a big flower pot and not into the earth.
The Mimosa pudica is just amazing, you touch the leaves and they fold inward, and re-open a few minutes later.
I’ll search for some photos to post!
Nyyppa is just full of good advice.
I think even if my bamboo does grow I probably won’t plant it outside. I accidentally got the running kind and I don’t think the farmers or neighbors would appreciate me filling their fields/yards with bamboo. I might order a species of clumping bamboo, but those are a lot more expensive.
Plants are neat man. I sort of have an everything-I-touch-dies thing but I’ve had a few successes.
I used to have a persimmon tree in my backyard, sold it to a nursery when I moved. Now I like to grow potted cacti, since they’re hardy and good for the socal climate.
I have grown a few other edible plants, like peas and other vegetables. Home-grown stuff tastes really good actually. I’m going to try and grow flowers in the summer.
I have that problem as well, I was really surprised when I looked in there and actually saw green things popping out, lmao.
I would grow a tree, but don’t they take like, 20 years or longer to grow? I don’t plan on living here that long so I’d probably never see it fully grown.
Here are updated pictures I just took a couple minutes ago. Green things starting to pop up all over the place. This is the first time I’ve planted something that didn’t immediately die. Lmao. I kind of wish I had a camera set up to watch them, because I’ll leave for an hour, come back and there’s always new things and I’m like, where the hell did you all come from?!
Well, cats have once again destroyed everything I care about. They were almost big enough to be planted outside, but the cat killed every last one of them. They’re all gone. I’ll never plant anything again.
Put plastic wrap over top of it after you water it, that way it doesn’t dry out
