Terracotta pots stuck together
thumpergirl
19 years ago
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Hey friends, Stuck in a predicament. Can you help?
Comments (10)Hey Jodik! There is something about you being here that always makes my heart leep for joy! Thank you. I hear you on the neglect thing. You have actually helped me do very well with my regular plants based on this advice, especially my jades! I must say that most can probably do without the tenderness while I did find one I did neglect for more than a few days almost dead from dehydration.lol I guess there is a balance somewhere. The good thing is that it will probably come back a lot easier with a good dose of rain water than if it was rotted due to the opposite. So far so good, all my roots but one Cattleya that I saved from the Orchid Society were healthy. On the one that had rotted roots, I used your method of cinnamon, and it WORKED! It is doing great now:-) So happy to see you, and in case no one knows, you have been a very long time close friend of mine on every forum but this one thus far. Here we go again.lol I also found out that in my type of mix which dries out very quickly in my warm greenhouse and with all those fans, the Cattleya seedlings would croak if I didn't provide constant moisture. These I can't ignore. So far so good. They are thriving with a good watering and misting every other day at the end of my hands. I have been discovering too that depending on how much light we give and the temps will determin if we can truly ignore them or provide watering more often than not. I know that a mount I tried, died to neglect with only a couple of days of no water, dried out to the bone. I would say that there are too many variables in play here to determine whether ones can be ignored or need a constant source of moisture. I have live hanging moss that needs a constant misting. I am figuring it out though, thanks to you all here and my own hand at it! I am still in the discovery process and finding out how well my orchids respond to my care with the environment, light, mix,air movement, and temps all taken into consideration. This is a blast! Lumpy! You see to have it all together for what you have. Would you believe that I have some of the same plants that are thriving in JUST 'hydroton', some in just plain 'orchiada bark', some in a combination of fine fir bark, some in fine fir bark, pumice, and perlite, some in chunky fir bark, while others in fine bark, charcoal, and perlite? It can very fun seeing how they all respond. It seems no matter what they are in, they need to be in a mix that provides a lot of oxygen and air movement, and does not stay wet too long. Right now I have many in the mix Josh uses that LOVE that. Time will tell if all do well in just about anything, as long as I can provide mixes that stay moist for fine roots, moist but dry out for medium roots, and then dry out fast for large roots. Bob, I have taken your words too to heart. That is exactly what I am doing. I fine mist all my Cattleyas until the top of the mix gets moist, then do a deep watering every weekend. I use warm rain water and make sure I mist and rinse heavily with warm water for about 5 minutes on each. I also have many clips that I have now started to use and in fact on many this am. Thanks for all you do and for everything everybody has done for me. I enjoy you all! I think my experience with living in the tropics and remembering how orchids grow in nature has given me a good headstart, well at least the basics of orchid care. I do know that the only time I ever saw them was under trees! The ones exposed to more sun always had burnt and yellow leaves, but huge flowers. The ones that got dense foliage to protect them always had dark green leaves, but smaller flowers. Mike:-)...See MoreBest scenario for 2 seedlings stuck together
Comments (4)I would sacrifice one of them. They will be fighting for root space, light, nutrients... if you leave them both so close together. It will lead to two weaker smaller less productive plants, rather than one strong plant....See MoreMy plant friends that have stuck with me through thick and thin
Comments (6)Well here's a few more of my babies. My Haworthia, though not sure what type exactly. It keeps pupping and I just let them all live together and it's starting to create a kind of bush. This is in a 6" pot. My Ponytail Palm. One of my favorite plants of all time. Within days of putting it outside it expanded to the point where it almost ripped right out of it's 4" pot. It's now in a 6" and the closest bulb on the right is about the size of a baseball. This one lost a couple leaves due to the neglect but held on really really well. Thanks goodness for water storing bulbs. Love. I realize the next two aren't cacti or succulents but they did hang on through all the issues so I hope no one minds if I include them here. My variegated Spath. Hasn't flowered for me in a while but it's real nice and full and I can't get enough of it. And my Dracaena marginata Tricolor. This one held on a lot better than my plain Dracaena marginata. Lost a lot fewer leaves and the growth remained much more compact. Thanks again for looking and happy growing to all!...See MoreStuck with Floor Plan
Comments (68)Gorgeous!!! Quick questions about your kitchen! Ours is a very similar layout. What's the distance from your fridge to the sink? Everyone had suggested we add a prep sink to our island (across from the range) , but with the world today, I'm looking to trim costs wherever I can. Do you miss having a sink closer to the fridge?...See MoreClare
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