Over a year ago I posted about some plants I was attempting
to propagate. I recently realized it would probably be nice to update all of
you on the plants, and how successful (or not) the experiment has been.
Firstly, I didn’t realize it’s been over a year since I
propagated them. Otherwise I would have updated in July when it was only a year
since I began the experiment.
The Devil’s Ivy:
This was the plant that I liked the color of, but didn’t
know what it was exactly. After a couple of months, I looked it up and found
out it’s Devil’s Ivy, a common houseplant but not safe if you have pets that
like to chew on plants.
I feel this plant is by far the most successful of the
group. I eventually broke it into two, one for home and one for my classroom. However,
I’m on leave this year so they both are at home with me. One got left outside
on the porch (because we have one now!) a little too long and got sunburned. It’s still alive though, and when I did my
repotting it got a new pot, and is currently living in the spare room (which I
call my office in my head). It’s not as sunny in there and should give this
plant a chance to revive itself.
The other is on top of our bookshelf in the living room.
It’s a good spot, I think, because it’s out of the reach of children and
husbands. Plus, it’s vines are starting to grow really well, and I think it
will look nice when they get long enough to drape down the shelf a bit.
The Baby Jade:
This one barely survived the classroom last year. I realized
that a child was picking on this one. Literally. I never caught the child in
the act, but after class I would find the leaves with little crescent
fingernail marks on it. I decided to rescue it and take it home.
Once home it recovered and in the past few months, since we
moved, it has really thrived. I realized that it perhaps wasn’t propagating
like the mother plant because it was in such a small container.
When I repotted
it, I gave it a larger pot, and buried it a little deeper, in the hopes that it
would become more stable. It was so tall in the small pot that it started to
lean and I was worried it would break in half and I would no longer have a Baby
Jade.
The Succulents:
The succulents unfortunately did not survive the classroom.
They were the same as the Baby Jade, I kept finding them with fingernail marks
on the leaves. For whatever reason they never really took root either.
The Spider Plants:
These did really well too. Until we moved. When we moved I
decided that these could live outside, since most Spider Plants I’ve seen do
well outside in partial sun. Our porch only gets afternoon sun, so it seemed
like they would be ok.
And they were. Sort of. It looks like they’ve been picked on
by birds or bugs or something. I’m not sure.
Being honest here, these poor plants got pretty neglected
being outside this summer. So that’s probably why. It was a long, super-hot
summer and those plants needed to be watered more than they got over the
summer. They would have done better if they had been watered better, I think.
Anyway. I repotted them when I repotted everything else. I also cleared off some items from the porch
so the plants are more prominent and I won’t forget to water them as much
because they aren’t hidden. They already are recovering beautifully,
A New One- Pink Bromeliad:
I made John get me this pink bromeliad about a month ago.
Maybe more.
It started to die, unfortunately. And after some research I
discovered that it’s putting out pups, so the mother plant starts to die. With
the re-potting I did, I got this one a new pot. I pulled off some pups and
threw them away. One got saved though and put in it’s own pot. The mother plant
is in a new pot with new soil as well.
I was told that bromeliads are easy care so hopefully at
least the mother plant survives. Because John said if I kill it, we aren’t
allowed to have pets or children.
