It's been hot and humid for nearly three months now @KT53, this is the first year it has been such a problem, I bought a pond pump a few weeks ago but not been able to get it into the pond yet....bit late now though!
Sorry to hear that @floralies. If you've had thunderstorms, that's a possible cause as the very humid air reduces oxygen levels getting to the pond.
The local neighbourhood weirdo was just standing out in the lashing rain collecting water in a bucket for his air plants. Apparently the lightning fixes the atmospheric nitrogen and gives them free fertiliser. Bloody weirdo.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Harmless weirdos we can live with. I think maybe I'd like to become a harmless weirdo. Purple and a hat that doesn't go seems a trifle tame Any gardening related suggestions most welcome.
In unrelated news, my air plant seeds mostly survived me going on holiday. They were pretty shrunken when I got back but apart from a few weaker ones they mostly rehydrated very quickly. It's been three months since I started trying to get them to germinate and they're now finally starting to grow a first proper leaf. They've just been tiny green blobs for at least 8 weeks and I was starting to worry that nothing was ever going to happen. I've just managed to get the seeds of a different plant to green blob stage too.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
They go from looking like a dandelion seed to green blob fairly quickly. They then seem to stay at the blob stage for endless weeks. The photo below could have been any time in the last two months. I guess this is the problem with having no roots and getting all your food from sunlight. The energy stored up in the seeds must be just enough to allow them to split the skin open.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I just went outside to check on the moth trap. I want to bring it in before the possible thunderstorm. I put my foot on what I thought was a slug. It wasn't . It was half a rodent the neighbours cat left me.
They can have structural roots to hold onto stuff but they don't serve any other purpose. Apparently some species do better when they're attached to something, and some have to be attached to certain types of rock, but I've no idea why that helps.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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