Hello fellow gardeners and other interested Hivers!
I'm back with an update of my garden; both indoor and outdoor.
As you might remember from my previous updates my outdoor garden didn't really do very well this year. Snails and slugs are the main culprit for this.
The only positive news from my backyard is from the raspberry (that has been giving delicious raspberries for two months now and still keeps on giving), my almond tree that is loaded with almonds (unfortunately the 'package' is way bigger than the actual almond) and a few of my cherry tomato plants.
A daily harvest of deliciously sweet raspberries
And there is till more to come
A lot of the tomatoes are starting to ripen
They are really nice and juicy. I've already put some of them in the lasagna last week
Waiting for the almonds to drop, so I can dry them
Plant propagation
In my previous blogs I had already shown some indoor plant propagations I've been trying to do. Some of the propagations are doing quite well and I'm really getting more excited about it.
I will give you an update on some of the propagations below...
Scindapsus
A couple of months ago I received some rooted Scindapsus cutlings from a friend. That actually was the start of my new plant journey. I've placed them in a pot and they have been doing so well since then.
I had put two different species in the same pot back then, but I noticed the one was growing more rapidly than the other. I was afraid the one would sufficate the other, so I decided to move them in seperate pots.
I've put the Aureum Epipremnum in a slightly bigger pot since it grows so fast. I also changed the soil in the pot. I've read that plants benefit from air around the roots and need some drainage to prevent their roots to start rotting.
Many plant propagators use a mix of perlite and regular houseplant soil, so I have done that too. Both plants are still doing well after repotting.
In the previous blog I already showed the cultings I took from one of the Scindapsusses. I was hoping to create new plants myself and apart from that it also stimulates the plant to become more bushy. If you let the stems grow they just keep growing longer and longer.
Just after a week or two the new cutlings are already starting to grow roots. It's quite fascinating to see how easy it is to propagate this plant.
One of them already has one firm root and a second root that has just started. I will have to wait a while before the subroots start emerging and I can place them in soil.
Potting
In the last blog I had shown some of the cutlings that had grown fairly large roots and subroots. Now the time has come to put them in soil. I've prepared a mix of 1/3 perlite and 2/3 potting soil and transferred the cutlings into their own pots.
It's recommended to keep the soil quite moist in the first few weeks since they have been in water all the time.
After having transferred them into pots and keeping them wet they seem to do quite well.
This one is a Ficus (rubber plant). I had made the cutling from the motherplant months ago, but now I have multiplied it myself. I hope it will keep doing well.
Another tip I often get is to always put a plant in a plastic pot before putting it in a large pot. This way you can save the plant when you accidentally overwater it.
The other two cutlings are from a pickle plant and a type of succulent. These cutlings were a bit smaller than the Ficus and the roots were also quite fragile. But I noticed the roots only grew longer and not thicker, so I also transferred these in a pot.
Until now they seem to been adapting quite well to the soil. I also keep them wet, so I hop they will stay this happy.
Stay tuned until the next #hivegarden update!
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