Do you dust your plants?

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This is not about lacing weed with angel dust, BTW

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

now that i have plants, i dont want them to get dusty. one is a fern though, and one is ivy. none have big leaves. i dont see how im going to be able to dust them.

any suggestions?

to answer the question, no. i have not dusted them yet.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

compressed air

― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

It sounds like a good idea to dust plants, but I don't regularly dust anything.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

dusting = s0 n0t n0iZe

― why do old people and old users of ILX such bastardos (deangulberry), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I let my cats do that with their tails.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

my insane aunt washes each leaf of her indoor plants with a mysterious homemade tonic. she then shines each leaf with a dollop of mayo. sounds wierd and gross, but her house looks like a shimmering jungle, smelling faintly of a deli.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmmm.......junglicious.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Water misters wash the dust off ferny foliage. Alternatively you can put them outside in the rain from time to time.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely a lot of the "dust" on ferns is actually spores?

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it depends on the species. Spores are often contained in defined sporangia on the underside of leaf and/or protected by indusia (little caps) or an inrolled leaf margin.

I suspect that dusty looking spores on the leaf surface are 'ripe' and ready to be displaced by air, water, etc. so there is no harm washing them off. I would not get in there with the mayonaise though.

disclaimer - there are lots of ferns and I don't really know much about any of them.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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