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Cake day: February 16th, 2024

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  • I know they’re sort of waxy, and I know I haven’t grown pineapples (or ananas as we say in the rest of languages), but I googled a bunch of photos to make sure what I was seeing is the hue slightly being pale.

    Idk if I have a knack for that, I at least remember reading research that green-red deficient ppl, such as I, can sometimes perceive more shades of green and brown, but that’s beside the point as am going mostly from my home gardening experience.

    I’ve grown weed and then basils and other herbs and cacti and whatnot and it all sort of applies even though not all plants need to be the same hue obviously. But the first sign of a plant being “hungry” is often — to me — anything green being a bit too pale.

    But since this isn’t like massive deficiency anyhow, it’s alright. But I would perhaps consider doing mild fert solutions every second or even everytime you water, depending on how much it drinks (that’s a whole other thing which I can’t know from here).

    You can buy both needed ferts from a supermarket. Just get one that’s “basic” and usually green bottles or smth, just basic plant food, they’re for the growth phases of most any plants. Then also look if you can find one for orchids/blooming, they’re sometimes purple. (I think you said Austria perhaps and I’m EU as well but idk if the colours are some national level thing.)

    In the first one or maybe even two fertilisations I’d mix them half and half with half of a low-side of the recommended amount. So that together they equal about the normal amount but sort of mixed.

    Going into details here but in plant food bottles you’ll see NPK numbers, standing for Nitrogen Phosphorus and Potassium (K is Kalium, how many other countries and Latin says potassium). And “growth” plant food will have a number something like 20-5-5 and bloom something like 5-15-10. Although there are balanced ones with like 10-10-10, you could use one of those for the first one or two times and then when the pineapple gets bigger (how long does it take to grow idk) start putting more a bloom type, high in phosphorus, because the plant is then making the fruit and that requires phosphorus and and that point it’s just using thw energy in the leaves, not growing more, for which it would need the nitrogen.

    Just take care not to overdo it. Which is easier said than done I guess. But I think looking into and using them a bit would definitely help your future harvest a bit.


  • I haven’t grown pineapple, but the leaves look a bit pale green to me. Are you giving enough fertiliser?

    Also, flowering plants usually take a different sort of fertiliser which is higher in phosphorus but lower in nitrogen whereas leaves being a bit pale and not a darker green is usually an indication of lower nitrogen levels.

    But you know, I haven’t grown pineapple. But quite a few other things and it seems to work on most plants that way what with chlorophyll and whatnot.

    Edit I just mean to say it looks like its definitely getting good sun, and maybe this grows a bit faster than your usual houseplant and perhaps you’re more used to fertilising them, as they don’t often really require much, if any. But a plant making fruit really might call for some, especially indoors.







  • I hope people realise actual war isn’t fun shenanigans like this.

    The army is fun shenanigans, yeah, on occasion. In movies/memes that’s all you’ll see. Whereas the routine is boring af.

    And real war is scary and heartbreaking because of how fucked up it is to have your friends explode to pieces or bleed out in your arms.


  • I mean, it’s not necessary, but neither are HD resolutions or high framerates.

    It has seemed every beautiful in some things.

    It’s not necessary, but like, lots of things aren’t. The tech in itself isn’t horrible, it’s just horrible usecases which make it bad. Even if most usecases are horrible. Some aren’t.

    Edit for instance we have much the same power computers with my brother, aside from me having an outdated GPU. Last year when we played HP Legacy for a bit, I would say that his was far prettier when utilising Ray tracing, and the whole game is a sort of feast of aesthetics, so. Although his rig wasn’t potent enough to have great framerates, so playing was still better for him as well without Ray tracing. But the scenery without much action still had good framerares so we saw rhe difference. Idk perhaps it will never be good but








  • You made me get up to look for a tape measure. Couldn’t find one. 2e coin will have to do.

    The Hellmans mayo bottle is definitely not 3cm. The other one is way wider but the Hellmans is barely the size of a 2e coin, a 2e coin not fitting in it and a 2e coin being roughly an inch (25.75cm as opposed to an inch which is 2.54cm)

    Look at this

    Idk of any inch wide mini spatulas. Could be useful but I’ve not seen any.

    My ketchup bottles are also probably closer to 2" than 1"

    Oh and I’m not gonna use the bottle I had the coin on, it was on sale but I didn’t like it so I’m just waiting to throw it away. Also I don’t ever scrape bottles of month old mayo, if I make my own I use it like at least within a week. Even if it’s mixed from mayo and other premade sauces that have long shelf lifes. I just use the bottle as a sort of medium. I make a mix of sauces, because the ketchup isn’t tasty enough, but the mayo ain’t hot enough, and the mustard isn’t sweet enough. So I mix a bit of all in decent relations, then throw in a bit of garlic, spices, jalapeño relish. Then blend and put in the squirter.

    Use for a day or a couple. Then get rid.

    Then rinse and repeat.



  • Well then it’s not a terrible solution, sure, but if you’re going through the trouble already, why not use one of

    These. They’re practically free, way better shape, easy to wash, and prolly easier to fill given the whole size on those small bastards.

    Also making your own mayo / sauces is something I’m kinda used to doing nowadays. I used to think it takes a lot of effort but nah, just mix some mayos/sauces/spices/herbs/garlic, give a tiny blend if there’s hard parts and that’s it. Sometimes I fluff it up by gently adding Turkish yogurt after squeezing it out of the bottle (the yogurt loses consistency if you blend it, so I blend everything else, put it in a squeezer, than lightly mix that with the yoghurt)