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wherein Liz considers houseplants
Sep. 6th, 2022 07:11 pmI spent far too much time this afternoon sorting through the extremely mismatched collection of flower pots I've acquired over the decades. This was prompted chiefly by the disease that struck my spider plants a while back -- little oozing scaly things that attach to the stems and leaves -- and by the way that the spider plants reacted VERY BADLY to the three-in-one insecticide/miticide/fungicide spray I used to lightly spritz them in my attempt to kill the parasite.
In other words, a lot of my plants died.
(Swear to god, I was not expecting them to bite it. Spider plants are normally the next best thing to unkillable, but here we are.)
I am, of course, sad about my dead plants! But I am trying to look at this as a useful opportunity to downsize and reassess. It's sort of working?
Anyway, I dumped out a lot of dirt, washed a lot of pots, reorganized my gardening cupboard, and set aside a whole bunch of pots that I need to cart to... I guess the Salvation Army store (ugh) for lack of any other goodwill/consignment shop in town. I actually have quite a lot of nonsense saved up that I need to donate at some point. I should probably sort and repack those boxes next weekend, and then actually get them out of my apartment.
Hmm. And I should take my old tiny filing cabinet to the re-use center while I'm at it. I am about 95% sure it fits within the categories of household furniture they accept, even if they don't directly mention filing cabinets anywhere on their website.
Oh, and I also repotted a pothos cutting I stole from my work.
Long story short, Miss Cactus had been training a golden pothos vine up the office wall. I don't like pothos when it gets really long and stringy, and also I wanted to be able to move the big terracotta pot in order to rearrange items on the shelving unit where she'd placed it, so over the past several months I have been snipping off 4-leaf or 5-leaf lengths from the vine and rooting them in water. I planted the first two cuttings back into their parent pot to make the growth less one-sided, but I brought the next two home and have planted them in small-to-medium hanging pots since my windows were looking barren without their normal overgrowth of spider plants.
I intend to keep them fairly close-trimmed, though I may take the next (final) batch of cuttings and plant them all in a group in a single larger pot. We shall see how I feel in a couple weeks when they have begun to root.
In other words, a lot of my plants died.
(Swear to god, I was not expecting them to bite it. Spider plants are normally the next best thing to unkillable, but here we are.)
I am, of course, sad about my dead plants! But I am trying to look at this as a useful opportunity to downsize and reassess. It's sort of working?
Anyway, I dumped out a lot of dirt, washed a lot of pots, reorganized my gardening cupboard, and set aside a whole bunch of pots that I need to cart to... I guess the Salvation Army store (ugh) for lack of any other goodwill/consignment shop in town. I actually have quite a lot of nonsense saved up that I need to donate at some point. I should probably sort and repack those boxes next weekend, and then actually get them out of my apartment.
Hmm. And I should take my old tiny filing cabinet to the re-use center while I'm at it. I am about 95% sure it fits within the categories of household furniture they accept, even if they don't directly mention filing cabinets anywhere on their website.
Oh, and I also repotted a pothos cutting I stole from my work.
Long story short, Miss Cactus had been training a golden pothos vine up the office wall. I don't like pothos when it gets really long and stringy, and also I wanted to be able to move the big terracotta pot in order to rearrange items on the shelving unit where she'd placed it, so over the past several months I have been snipping off 4-leaf or 5-leaf lengths from the vine and rooting them in water. I planted the first two cuttings back into their parent pot to make the growth less one-sided, but I brought the next two home and have planted them in small-to-medium hanging pots since my windows were looking barren without their normal overgrowth of spider plants.
I intend to keep them fairly close-trimmed, though I may take the next (final) batch of cuttings and plant them all in a group in a single larger pot. We shall see how I feel in a couple weeks when they have begun to root.
