Have some blue rose cuttings to trade for your Iceland iris toes!!! Sincerely and respectully, sunshine98

Reviving this thread as I also need some advice on my ailing polka dot plant (pics below). I don't have before pics, but my little polka dot plant was thriving - I got it last month and though it was already a healthy plant, it perked up considerably and got bigger. This weekend, I noticed that the roots were significantly growing out through the holes in the plastic pot it came in from the nursery. I repotted it yesterday into tapla's gritty mix (@tapla - I've been reading these forums quite a bit since starting up my house plant collection early this year and your posts have been so informative!). Today, it looks very sad and droopy and the leaves feel very delicate and soft, which was not the case yesterday prior to the repot. I'm new to plants generally so this is the first time I've repotted a plant, but this is what I did for the repot: - Took as much soil off as possible with my hands and then tried to wash off the rest of the soil so the roots were mostly bare/clean - Put it into a slightly bigger planter than the plastic nursery planter it came in - the new planter has a drainage hole - I watered the new mix after I put the plant in, which I'm now thinking I shouldn't have done I'm not sure what exactly to do now. It's located in the same spot it was before when it was doing well so is getting the same amount of light and temperature. I don't know if it needs a few days to adjust as I've noticed that this plant reacts pretty quickly to changes. For example, prior to the repot, it would perk up considerably after being watered even though it wasn't at all droopy prior to being watered. Any suggestions on what to do? Did I do something incorrect during the repot? Did I overwater it and it just needs some time to dry out? Is my new pot too big? Is the gritty mix not the right mix for this plant? Does it just need time to adjust? Did I need to arrange the roots a certain way in the new planter? (Sorry, so many questions running through my head!)

Yes, I now blend feed all bins. I tried this ages ago, but couldn't be bothered until now. My initial goal was to process all my waste (family of 5) via the worms, so blending just makes it disappear that much faster. In the process, I have discovered the secret formula for pot worms, just add a couple of slices of bread to each load in the blender, and voila! instant pot worms! LOL. Don't think I'll go the dehydrator route, but have seen the PVC pipe idea before. I'm setting up a another 5 bins (hooray for Christmas money!), and I'm going to try a side by side comparison by drilling holes in one bin (not the bottom) and not in another (just so they both at least start the same). My new goal: Free worms for all! During my experimenting, I have discovered at least 20 people, both at work and in the neighborhood who "would love to have worms, but it's just a bit too expensive" (here in Aust, worms and worm farm are around $100 to get started) so, new goal is to establish 10 x 10 gallon totes (excess to the 5 I now have in full running + the worm factory), get them running with 100 worms a piece, run them for 6 months each (numbers should climb to approx 1000+ in that time), and "give" them to my friends. I'm hoping that they might contribute maybe $20 each, which can then, in turn, start another 2 totes (cost $8.50 + black paint) which I'll do the same thing with. Once I have 20 totes going, I should be able to plain old give them away to good homes. I've asked a few of my friends about this approach, and they'd be more than happy to do this, and 2 of them would love to do it themselves. Worms for all I say, and cheap (or even free if I can get enough totes up and running) Do you think this is reasonable?

For future reference, EarthTouch in Huntsville has an amazing array of herbs every spring, anl all through the year. When I worked there they had about 10 kinds of lavender, in little pink cups.