A calendar… genius! Why didn’t I think of thatPersonally I water them all on the same day each week. Easy to keep track then. Or maybe mark on the calendar? We have a week planner on the fridge and I write ‘cacti’ when it’s a cactus watering week and ‘plants’ when it’s a general watering day for all the others.
Planta! You can upload pictures of your plants to track their growth and can even set up different rooms and specify the light/if the plant is close to a heat source etc. It’s so fun. I do find their watering schedule can be a bit overzealous, so always check the soil before you water. There are paid for options but the free one does all of the aboveSorry if this has been mentioned before, I’ve had a look back through a few pages but couldn’t see anything….
Has anyone tried an app, or used any sort of other recorded method for watering their plants? I’ve recently moved into a new house and acquired quite a few house plants which all seem to need watering/caring for at different times, I keep losing track of what has been watered when, and think I’m a bit of an over-waterer
I’d seen mixed reviews on these, but might give one a go!I got a simple houseplant moisture meter from Amazon which took a lot of the guesswork out of watering, especially for fusspots like calatheas and ferns
Not a dumb question at all and I'd been thinking this myself but unfortunately I don't know the answer. It does propagate quite easily but since I can never get any further than "long and leggy" then I don't know if I want to keep doing that. Thank you for the input!This may be a dumb question but is your grow light giving out the right wavelength day light?
I have the sprawling kind of tradescantia and they really go for it, I just cut off bits and regenerate them every few months, so maybe just resign yourself to cutting off and repotting the top when it gets too big? (I'm assuming it works in the same way as other tradescantia and propagates easily like this)
On the recommendation of someone at the garden centre I used coconut compost to repot my beloved aspidistra and as a result he nearly died! I salvaged one solitary leaf then flung that shite compost out but thankfully that one leaf is sprouting another so Percy is alive, but I was bloody furious because I'd given the original cutting of Percy to my grandmother when I was nine and 55 years later that bloody compost nearly saw him off!I repotted my six year old Pothos last week and I think it's gone into shock, looks terrible. Just going to leave it and hope it settles
Seconding this warning - I lost two beloved plants to coconut compost.On the recommendation of someone at the garden centre I used coconut compost to repot my beloved aspidistra and as a result he nearly died! I salvaged one solitary leaf then flung that shite compost out but thankfully that one leaf is sprouting another so Percy is alive, but I was bloody furious because I'd given the original cutting of Percy to my grandmother when I was nine and 55 years later that bloody compost nearly saw him off!
Word of warning - do not use coconut compost!!!!
That stuff is lethal to plant life! People, NEVER USE IT!!!!Seconding this warning - I lost two beloved plants to coconut compost.
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