https://cohanseeds.blogspot.com/2019/09/fall-work-yard-clean-up-and-linnaea.html That came about as a side effect of some yard work I was doing. Today, I was intending to water some houseplants, and again got pulled down a (modest) rabbit hole of potting and cuttings!
First I noticed a pot that had a mostly dead Gasteria, with one little piece living ( and a couple of bits of Aloe that got stuck in there at some point)- so that needed repotting into much smaller pots. Then, since I was thinking plant maintenance, I thought I might as well deal with a Ceropegia woodii / String of Hearts which I had moved a while ago, and was sitting draped over and clambering around some other plants. It was already rooting into at least one other pot, and I figured if I left it much longer it would be inextricable!
Ceropegia woodii on Sansevieria |
Ceropegia woodii -- all separated and ready for potting/repotting! |
Shaking off the old soil.. |
Positioned on top of fresh soil in the new pot, tuber raised just a little.. |
New soil added around the plant and tamped in lightly |
A large broken section wrapped up to shorten and give more rooting points, laid across the soil, centre covered |
Soil top dressed with rocks, cuz I like them, and they will help watering without splashing out soil, and of course hold down the new cuttings till they root |
Cuttings can drape across with the centre weighed down, or curl around the surface for more contact points |
I used some of the leftover soil plus pots from a couple of failed seed attempts to pot up the Gasteria and two Aloe pups, gave everything a good spraying (I don't water freshly repotted succulents, usually- giving them a day or several for damaged roots to heal; cuttings could be watered, but apart from a bit of surface dampness to stimulate rooting, soil moisture doesn't matter much until they have roots) and that was it! Tangent taken care of, I never did get the watering done-- so I sprayed the plants I was supposed to water, got some cucumber with yogurt dressing ready to go with Samosas, went out to check mail, have a walkabout (which included picking up some more -particular- small rocks from the road, to help fill in the top dressing on the largest Ceropegia) feed the cats and come home to eat!
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