Tag: house plant

Roots

I took a new clipping of the plant we grew from a clipping from the plant that Bellana grew from a clipping from her step mother’s plant. It’s been sitting in water near a window for weeks and the cats have been terrorizing it. They drink the water, they knock the clipping out of the glass. It’s terrible. I assumed the attempt was going to fail, but I didn’t throw it out. I just left the glass of water with the clipping by the window. Two days ago I checked it after neglecting it for almost a week and there are two new roots sprouting off of it! Success!

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I just ordered some potting soil and a little pot. Hopefully it survives long enough for them both to get here so I can pot this babie!

Does Bertha Need to Move?

Bertha is the house plant we grew from a clipping of Bellana’s plant that she calls Bert. We clipped a stem with two leafs off of it back in January and tried to grow a new plant. It worked like crazy.

Bertha is the plant on top of this stand. She has grown all the way down to the floor and now she is starting to spread out further.

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Is it time to move her to a new location? Or maybe is it time to put her on a taller stand of some sort? Maybe hang her from the ceiling? This window gets a ton of light in the afternoon and Bertha is growing like a weed even though the other two plants on the stand don’t seem to be growing at all.

Maybe we can put her in the bay window in the living room and she can just grow out in every direction. The downside there is that the curtain is always closed so we wouldn’t be able to watch, and I would be nervous about forgetting to water her.

For the time being though… She’s growing another branch.

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