I’m going to see if I can bring a couple of plants from the cellar back to life. Probably not, but we’ll give it a shot. I actually have a couple more that I need to bring upstairs to be part of the experiment.
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Taking Over Again
Harry has returned to Vermont. I am sad, but it does mean I can work from the desk in his room again. I’ve already taken over again.
The windows are open, though it’s going to get into the mid-90’s this afternoon so I will probably close them soon. The cats are happy.
The plants (Bertha the plant clipping, Bertie Bots Every Flavour Plant Clipping, and Bertrand Russel the Plant Clipping) are all happy too. I think… they are plants… their thoughts are tough to read.
Generations
I re-potted Bertha the Plant Clipping today. She’s in my step son’s room with me right now, sitting in front of the window and hopefully not dying.
Bertha the Plant Clipping is the plant on the right. The plant on the left is Bertie Botts Every Flavour Plant Clipping, which was clipped off of Bertha. Does that make Bertie the next generation, or is it the same generation in a different pot? What are the language rules on this kind of thing?
Bertie Botts Every Flavour Plant Clipping is still alive, but in the couple of weeks since I took her out of the glass of water and put her in a pot of dirt she hasn’t grown any new leaves. Bertha looked half dead (I did a lot of pruning off dead leaves today) and she’s grown two new leaves in the same amount of time. I’m getting worried about our little Berttie Botts.
Bertie Botts Every Flavour Plant Clipping
First there was a plant that belonged to my step kids’ step mother’s mother. When she passed away, their step mother took the plant home with her.
When my step daughter, Bellana, got her own place she took a clipping of that plant and used it to grow a new plant for her apartment. She named the plant Burt. I don’t know if the original plant had a name or not.
During the early days of the Covid lockdown Bellana took her plant, Burt, to our house. While it was with us, Bellana gave us a clipping to grow another plant. We named ours Bertha. Bertha is now gigantic and still growing, but much of her early growth is dying off. The plant is alive, but it doesn’t seem terribly happy. I got nervous about the plant’s prognosis so I did a thing.
I took another clipping and put it into a glass of water. Nothing happened for what seemed like a very long time and I was afraid that I was going to fail in my attempt to keep Bertha alive forever. Then, late last week, a new root grew! Then a second new root! Excellent! The new clipping is alive!
A few minutes ago I put it into a pot full of potting soil. Will it survive the transfer? I hope so, but I have no way to know. It has plenty of soil, food, and water. I will watch it like a hawk to make sure it doesn’t lack for anything until it proves to me that it’s thriving. After that I’ll just treat it like a normal plant and let it grow like crazy the way Bertha did.
Say hello to the new baby plant. I have decided to name it Bertie Botts Every Flavour Plant Clipping, which I will probably just shorten to Bertie Botts Every Flavor Plant… or maybe just Bertie.
Wish our new green friend luck!
Sunday Stuff
Leaky but Alive
Every time I water this cellar plant all of the water leaks out of the pot. Somehow it still lives though. Weird.
That one leaf on the far right is looking like it’s days are numbered, but there seem to be a couple of new branches splitting off. Good job, cellar plant.
Plants
We are just hanging around tonight watching the tube. I needed to get off my ass because my ass was getting sore. I took my camera with me and took a few pointless pictures. Now you, dear readers, will see them all.
The aperture on my lens only goes down to f5.6 and that doesn’t seem to be wide enough to get really good blurry backgrounds. Oh well.
Cellar Window
The plant in the cellar window is definitely growing a new leaf. I watered all of the plants down here this morning and water leaked out of the bottom of every pot. Insert frustrated grumbles here.
I think there might be new leaves on the other two cellar plants too, but there is also a lot more signs of distress. This pic shows one leaf turning brown at the tip. The other two are showing a lot of that, and it’s all much worse. I am hoping I won’t need to redesign the window arrangement to fit the other two plants.
I don’t want to move my desk swag. I just brought the Devil Dawg here from my parents house where it sat forgotten on a shelf…
Also, Mabel Pines may be the greatest character in television history. I can’t displace her.
What to do, what to do.
Plant Fun
Every time I turn around, Bertha has a new branch.
Now today I noticed that the big, giant ficus (sp?) tree in the dining room (which had a leaf fall off yesterday, #sadface) seems to have a new leaf sprouting too! Excellent!
New Flowers!
The Japanese Peace Lilly is growing two new flowers!! Woohoo!!
I wonder if the plant flowers seasonally and the season is starting. It’s had one flower open for ages, months I think, and every day it seems to droop a little more. It’s still hanging in there though. It will soon have a flowery friend, and I think there is a third flower just starting to poke out of the leaves.
Woohoo!
New flower:
Possible additional new flower (look close, there’s a little white thing just starting to come out):
Inside the Red Head's Head 