Dad gave me a whole load of Sallow trees (Back in April or May), a few as cuttings, a few with roots that we’d pulled out of the -paving and yet more that we’d pulled from a drainage channel. Most it did make the journey home as back then it was very hot. Some of it lasted a number of weeks in a put, but then we have had this hot dry weather and it perished. Two of the bits that we’d pulled from the gaps in the paving slabs appear to have made it though. Also in the pot are a variety of other successful plants. When I say successful you can read weeds if you’d prefer. We have a spider plant that I guess got in there from the plant that Dad gave me on the same occasion and also a tomato, though I am unsure quite how […]
I purchased a cactus from a person in the village a week or more ago. I imagine it has been growing for some time to reach this size, literally some time. Also I was given this other cactus many years ago, but it’s seeming to glow a little, it’s produced some shoots recently. Then there are the seedling cacti which is doing nothing very much: Yes, that’s right, still not sign of life.
I was given a cactus growing kit for Christmas, which stated that they needed 18°C to grow. So hence only now getting to it. First it was a case of adding water to the soil, they expended into something more recognisable as compost or peat. The seeds were mostly microscopic, and quite hard to plant “one seeds depth deep”. The instructions stated that cacti are slow growing so be patient.
We picked up some new big pots last weekend and so the other evening I got this one potted out. That little sprout on the left is going to require grabbing and transplanting soon too. There was another one that has not yet made it through the surface yet too.
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