Friday, July 25, 2014

Had a few more of the ebay strep seeds germinate.  The overall germination from these seeds has been very poor.  I wonder if it's user error (too much heat, for example) or what.  The cacti are doing GREAT.  I am still wondering about potting them on (and where I should put them after they're potted on) and what potting mix to use when I move them.  I guess I'll ask on the cactus & succulent forum.

The Z. jujuba seedlings seem to be hanging tough.  They're a little etoliated, so I'm trying to harden them off a little bit so I can take the plastic bags off of them so I can move them into stronger light without cooking them.  I heard a guy on youtube saying that Z. jujuba had been changed to Z. zizyphus.
Anyhow, I still have 5 seedlings (and lots of uncracked seeds) and the seedlings are about 5-8cm tall.

The altan got power sprayed yesterday, so I've been moving plants in containers back.  Trying to decide what to do about the window boxes.  They lean over terribly and generally look awful.

The petunias from plantasjen in hanging baskets looked so pathetic when I got them and now they're HUGE.  HUGELY huge.

Rainy and cooler (slightly) today.  Mostly sprinkles instead of real actual rain...but at least it's slightly cooler.

The IKEA cacti need to be potted up a size, most all of them have roots coming out the drainage holes...and the Australopuntia monstrosa needs to be repotted out of the peat it's still in.

The Sanserveria trifasciata broken leaf I picked up somewhere already has roots.  One of the pepperomia leaves rotted, one has roots.  They're in a container with 8-9 rosemary cuttings and NONE of the rosemary cuttings have struck.  Usually it only takes a few days.  I did NOT use any hormone on the cuttings though, so /shrug.

Was thinking about going to check if the meconopsis at the botanic garden had mature seedpods, but it was just so bleh today and I was feeling somewhat lazy.  So I didn't get there after all.  I keep meaning to go and check out the greenhouse.  They have a LOT of really pathetic looking succulents (lithops!!!), but haven't managed to get there during the 2 hours a day they're open.  Mostly it just looks pathetic :(  Dead and dying plants...  I wonder what the story is.


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