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urbandryad) wrote2013-03-31 09:29 am
urbandryad) wrote2013-03-31 09:29 am
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Spring Carnivory!
Hey guys, this has been a great plant spring. I got down to the Puget Sound African Violet Show & Sale in Seattle (this is a whole nother post), it's so sunny I need to move my violets away from the window... so clearly I need sun-loving plants *in* the window for shade and, well, so as not to waste the sunlight. Or something.
But more exciting RIGHT NOW is that I wandered into Hawaiian Botanicals with a friend and bought a super overgrown Nepenthes x ventrata totally on a whim, spent the next six hours reading, spent a few hours this morning propagating, and appear to have a new plant hobby.
So, seriously, here's the plant after I cut off 36 ~4-5" cuttings (that's a lot of vine yardage):
And the top half with two or three rosettes starting to rise into vines (the window is too sunny for me to know how to get both to show up in a photo):
Note this is not my most southerly window; it's more of an east. I'm hardening the plant up to full south sun, which it can apparently take. Even this window burnt my little fern (that had been great over the winter) into almost ovlivion:
It's going to my north-facing neighbor to live in a terrarium to make up for the evils I've done to it.
But seriously, guys. Most beautiful sight in the universe?
Babies tucked in, covered up, and drinking sunlight. I have no idea if this'll work, but out of 36 cuttings I imagine a couple will root. That, and I'd like awfully to cut that last long branch back and take the last pieces of woody ones back so the plant can regrow from the base again, but these things should wait. I don't want to go too crazy right now.
Growing medium for babies, if you're wondering, is 50/50 perlite and long-fibre spaghnum. Adult is in 100% spaghnum, it looks like, but I haven't delved around in that pot too much. She really looks happy.
Interesting thing about pitchers: they grow on the tips of the leaves, and when taking cuttings you need to cut them off. So I'll leave you with my view during breakfast:
But more exciting RIGHT NOW is that I wandered into Hawaiian Botanicals with a friend and bought a super overgrown Nepenthes x ventrata totally on a whim, spent the next six hours reading, spent a few hours this morning propagating, and appear to have a new plant hobby.
So, seriously, here's the plant after I cut off 36 ~4-5" cuttings (that's a lot of vine yardage):
And the top half with two or three rosettes starting to rise into vines (the window is too sunny for me to know how to get both to show up in a photo):
Note this is not my most southerly window; it's more of an east. I'm hardening the plant up to full south sun, which it can apparently take. Even this window burnt my little fern (that had been great over the winter) into almost ovlivion:
It's going to my north-facing neighbor to live in a terrarium to make up for the evils I've done to it.
But seriously, guys. Most beautiful sight in the universe?
Babies tucked in, covered up, and drinking sunlight. I have no idea if this'll work, but out of 36 cuttings I imagine a couple will root. That, and I'd like awfully to cut that last long branch back and take the last pieces of woody ones back so the plant can regrow from the base again, but these things should wait. I don't want to go too crazy right now.
Growing medium for babies, if you're wondering, is 50/50 perlite and long-fibre spaghnum. Adult is in 100% spaghnum, it looks like, but I haven't delved around in that pot too much. She really looks happy.
Interesting thing about pitchers: they grow on the tips of the leaves, and when taking cuttings you need to cut them off. So I'll leave you with my view during breakfast: