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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Here’s some Lupinus rivularis in our oak Savannah that could barely be further from dying back over the winter. Even the rivularis I have in containers like the latifolius is looking similar to this. #plantscience #portland

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Lupinus seem to have lots of different winter responses. I expected most of them to mostly die back at the top, and that seems like what this “latifolius” is doing. #plantscience

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

We had our seed starting social at the plant science club this past week. Another successful gathering! #portland

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Spying on my squash this morning…. I hand pollinated at least five more flowers as well! #portland #oregon #gardening

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Meeting some new robots at comic con and making sure PotatOS makes some new friends. #portland #oregon #rosecity #comiccon #portal

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Me and gladOS are going to Rose City Comic Con today. #portland #portal #oregon

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Tried to get scheduled for my yearly Covid vaccine and was DENIED without RX. Here’s what my primary care had to say about writing a RX for me: #covid #oregon #portland #vaccines

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Snakes are garden friends! Encourage snakes to live in your garden by offering lots of hiding places, sunning spots, and water sources. #gardening #portland #oregon

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Boy I sure do love autoclaving water every day to irrigate my plants with. 😩 #research

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

These baby delicatas look like cucumbers, haha. They’re all related! #gardening #squash #portland #oregon

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Doing my part today to snag incoming freshmen for biology and the plant science club. #portland #oregon #portlandstate

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Two days of growth post pollination. These winter squash really grow fast! #gardening #vegetables #portland #oregon

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

The shape of the ovary on female squash plants reflects the final shape of the fruit. Here’s one of each of the varieties I planted. Can you guess which one is the Hubbard? #botany #gardening #plantscience #portland #oregon

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This weekend I went with a lab mate to observe some Lupinus Lepidus in the field up at Mt Hood’s White River Sno Park. It was beautiful! #botany #research #nativeplants #biology #oregon

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The next generation of my glowing petunias has been identified!

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Another great slide from Dr Cloyd on why pesticides might fail before blaming resistance. #horticulture #entomology #botany

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Aphids! They don’t need males to reproduce, and quickly develop insecticide resistance. Just how quickly can their populations grow? Dr Cloyd shared this scary slide in his talk today… #horticulture #insects #entomology #botany

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Farwest advertised a focus on internships and what we got was posterboard postings where the companies advertising weren’t even near this corner. Not very welcoming. #tradeshow #farwest #horticulture

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Farwest advertised a “resume review station”, “scholarship station”, and financial aid help…. And here they are. Unmanned fliers with barely helpful links. #horticulture #farwest

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Farwest always has a lot of new plant varieties on display. Here’s the first one I’ve seen: a new petunia. #flowers #horticulture #portland #oregon

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Oregon Flowers uses recycled and steam sterilized media in their cut flower production, cutting down on waste and saving money. It was really cool to see this in action! #flowers #horticulture #recycle #portland

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Do you know where your flowers come from? If you’re buying cut flowers in Oregon, maybe they’re coming from Oregon Flowers in Aurora! I got to visit today and it was BEAUTIFUL! #horticulture #bulbs #oregon #portland

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Look at my beautiful Cyprus alternifolius (umbrella papyrus)! This plant loves wet, fertile soil, which makes sense since its native habitat is riverbanks. #botany #horticulture #greenhouse #portland #oregon

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Two white claws, a recent obsession with canva, and a desire to create lupine propaganda left me with this creation last night. #magic #tcg #plants #botany

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Trying to get better at design… and tell people about my research at the same time! The most common question I get with my research is… what’s a lupine? Here’s a picture of Russell lupine and 4 quick tidbits. #plantscience #botany #gardening

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Here’s all 15 of my winter squash in the two beds. I’ve got pumpkin, Hubbard, small sugar, and delicata and they all look so healthy! #gardening #portland #oregon

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

When is the best time of day to water your outdoor plants? Morning? Noon? Evening? I’ve always thought morning to midday is best, but sometimes high heat and dry conditions mean you have to hit them again in the afternoon or evening. #gardening #portland #oregon

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Spotted some Cryptolaemus larvae in the teaching collection this morning. Success! #ipm #bugs #botany #horticulture #portland

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Did you know rhododendrons can grow like trees? This Rhododendron ponticum is a Portland Heritage tree in Ladd’s addition, and actually the first one I saw yesterday. Definitely an uncommon sight! #plants #botany

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Another of the five Portland heritage trees I visited today - a big leaf linden! Tilia platyphllus. These trees are serious chonkers. #botany #plants #gardening #oregon #historical

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I saw 5 Portland Heritage Trees today. This one was the craziest looking: Elmus glabra, the Camperdown Elm. There’s 3 that are heritage trees here and they’re all clones from the same tree that sprouted in Scotland, 1850. #botany #plants

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Some cat pics for your Friday afternoon. One regal, one slightly less than.

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Anyone know who these pollinators are on my borage plants? There was quite a bit of activity today! #botany #insects #portland #oregon #flowers

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Got some precious new growth on this absolutely ancient and ugly Opuntia specimen in the teaching collection. Woo! #cacti #cactus #botany

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I finally decided to weed a bit this morning in the teaching collection. Mother of “thousands”? More like mother of MILLIONS. This thing won’t stop spreading everywhere. I think we have two varieties lol. #gardening #horticulture #greenhouse #botany

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I thought it might be interesting to look at a word cloud of the titles of the past month’s worth of Lupin publications. Here’s what I see: the top five words are white, breeding, data, phosphorus, and root. #research #science #plantscience

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We have so much of this that grows around our research greenhouses!

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Ahhh I have one blooming right now!! Maybe a more red variety tho. Those flowers are so cool!

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Finally cleaned up all our garlic from our harvest in July. We ended up with so much! Here’s the cleaned garlic as well as some pics from the day of. #garlic #gardening #portland #oregon

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Done for today! Still have a little testing to do but it all works! No leaks! #portland #plantscience #research

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Measuring out the spacing for the emitters before we start! #research #plantscience #horticulture #portland

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Every plant gets two drippers, with four drippers total at each emitter. We’ll be doing rate testing tomorrow to make sure the flow rate is what we predicted… or at least close to it lol. #plants #horticulture #research #plantscience #portland

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

This red alder research project will be here at the research greenhouse for the next couple of years, so we’re setting up a drip irrigation system to help care for them long term. #plants #research #portland

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Seeing lots of really STINKY flowers in the greenhouse today. #botany #cacti #cactus #plants #euphorbia

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Erica H @deadscreen.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I checked to see if the surface sterilization of my root nodules worked, and lo and behold I see that I likely have four samples that still have some kind of microbial presence. Maybe the nodules got damaged… or there were too many nooks and crannies. #labwork #science #plants #microbio

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