ChileanTaco
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Thank you for your update 
What goes on here on the other continent:
So, my succulents grow like crazy, beautiful healthy succulents - just some photos attached with a small fraction of those. Hassle-free, and I already propagated many of those. I also have tree succulents, more than 1 meter high. They grow so easily that what gets too big, will be donated to my workplace. (The area around my workplace is currently more or less a construction site; once it is done, cacti will be planted.)
On the other hand: Herbs, I try using up the remaining seeds I bought, but it's just not growing. The attached photo shows 3 month old (!) basil; photo taken some weeks ago, by now it has died off completely. (If it appears very wet: I don't overwater; photo was taken directly after watering.) Always, just a tiny fraction germinates, and then they first seem ding fine, until having more than 2 - 4 leaves - then they just don't grow anymore. Tried: indoors, outdoors, foil, tap water, drinking water (those are separate here). It's the same with all kinds of seeds I tried, I tried all the herbs. When I buy potted herbs from the hardware store (they sell some, shipped from other regions of the country), they die off within days to, in the best case, weeks.
With this, I use up the seeds... and otherwise stick to plants that I see also growing in gardens and on balconies of other people, or from small plant nurseries where I can be sure they grow them here and not get them shipped from other regions. No surprise: The small nurseries (which is more like: computer repair shop, aquarium store, hairdresser... also grows and sells plants as a side business; here we still have a lot of those "mom and pop stores" with first one type of business but then trying if something else works too) have cacti, generally succulents, but I've never seen such as a basil or oregano there - and also not on the balconies of neighbors. Surprise, surprise...
The reason for the problem is likely missing soil microbes, which most plants require but these succulents can go without; and then high UV levels (despite I tried herbs indoors and under foil and the success rate was just a tiny bit better, but still not within a range where I could grow herbs until I can harvest them).
What goes on here on the other continent:
So, my succulents grow like crazy, beautiful healthy succulents - just some photos attached with a small fraction of those. Hassle-free, and I already propagated many of those. I also have tree succulents, more than 1 meter high. They grow so easily that what gets too big, will be donated to my workplace. (The area around my workplace is currently more or less a construction site; once it is done, cacti will be planted.)
On the other hand: Herbs, I try using up the remaining seeds I bought, but it's just not growing. The attached photo shows 3 month old (!) basil; photo taken some weeks ago, by now it has died off completely. (If it appears very wet: I don't overwater; photo was taken directly after watering.) Always, just a tiny fraction germinates, and then they first seem ding fine, until having more than 2 - 4 leaves - then they just don't grow anymore. Tried: indoors, outdoors, foil, tap water, drinking water (those are separate here). It's the same with all kinds of seeds I tried, I tried all the herbs. When I buy potted herbs from the hardware store (they sell some, shipped from other regions of the country), they die off within days to, in the best case, weeks.
With this, I use up the seeds... and otherwise stick to plants that I see also growing in gardens and on balconies of other people, or from small plant nurseries where I can be sure they grow them here and not get them shipped from other regions. No surprise: The small nurseries (which is more like: computer repair shop, aquarium store, hairdresser... also grows and sells plants as a side business; here we still have a lot of those "mom and pop stores" with first one type of business but then trying if something else works too) have cacti, generally succulents, but I've never seen such as a basil or oregano there - and also not on the balconies of neighbors. Surprise, surprise...
The reason for the problem is likely missing soil microbes, which most plants require but these succulents can go without; and then high UV levels (despite I tried herbs indoors and under foil and the success rate was just a tiny bit better, but still not within a range where I could grow herbs until I can harvest them).
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