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soaked the seed for a day until sunk. then folded em up in a paper towel for a day and wrapped in clingfilm to keep moist. nice little root after a day 🌱🌱
set down in the soil about 5mm deep. used some soil that i just grabbed from outside to get some of that life in there. not sure if that's a super idea, its pretty sandy. took a small ball of coco from another plant and buried under the seedling. thinking it'll soak up water and encourage the seedling to tap down quickly 😂 🤔
shot up quickly, watering at the root. frequently and little to prevent a swamp. already feel like i'm being punished for not getting proper medium...
soil keeps washing off the roots. the plant became unstable and tippy. two single roots lying at the surface. used pincers and e.v.e.r. s.o. c.a.r.e.f.u.l.l.y. dug two holes and buried them. built a little mount around the base of the plant. then made a scaffolding with two chopsticks to stabilize. if i fuck this plant up, it's not from lack of trying
moved in a second light and she really likes it! started making some legit looking leafs and getting a deeper green than with one light super close up.
soil (sandy) stays pretty moist. so i'm careful with watering, don't want in anaerobic. same time i feel the plant is always happiest with nice and pround leaves after watering.
definitely a little muddy... i wouldn't go crazy, but a gentle breeze will help speed evaporation.
not much you can do once planted. if you intend to transplant, make sure to mix in vermiculite or perlite (hydroton, various other things) to provide better drainage. vermiculite or perlite is good at 50%. Smaller pots can get away with a lower %.
make sure to allow top 1" to dry before watering... it may take forever in this case, lol. Good / bad to that.. staying wet for so long isn't optimal in the long-run. Get a wet/dry cycle going as best you can. that'll avoid bad microbes and keep that area oxygenated too.
this was a turbulent week for sure! the day after the last entry, the leaves just kept sagging and going down. so i did an emergency transplant, from the soggy milk jug into the final pot. went to the garden center and got a small bag of houseplant earth, which has less pearlite than i would like but hey. also got some "azalea, camellia & rohodedron soluble plant food", this one was the closest to the 2-1-2 ratio that's recommended by bruce bugbee from the u of utah. in the question i forgot to mention that there were no holes in the milk jug... when i lifted the plant from the jug, water was running out, it was completely soaked. and definitely no healthy or earthy smell but kinda foul.
two days later she was looking good again, and shooting out new leaves. because more light had always been better, so far, I tried putting her really close to the light this time. turns out, about 5 cm is too close and she got a massive "sunburn" from that. i'm pretty impressed with how many mistakes my poor little warrior plant has survived so far! hope i am soon done with the fuck ups, until next week.
yo, what a crazy week of growth it's been! some big news are the first little hairs appearing. really happy to see that already, even though it's still tiny for going into flower. don't know if that's from the small pot, or the time that's passed, or the stress from the rough start. great to see anyways. as it's pretty much a houseplant i can't really have it grow huge and smelly..
also got some moss from the roadside. made sure to get some lil earthworms as well and got at least one woodlouse in the moss, so i hope that team will do some nice work on my soil. spraying that once or twice a day, it's looking pretty healthy.
started to take it away from the open window at night as well. last picture shows how she's drooping her leaves in the evening after turning lights off. any idea whats going on? not too worried ab it though bc in the morning the leaves are back up again
Ureus
