Nopalxochia and hippeastrum update
May. 14th, 2012 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardAbout a week ago I mentioned that I thought the Nopalxochia phyllanthoides cutting was on its last legs and that it would be a race between rooting/new growth and the collapse of the original cutting.
Not so! A week or so ago, the cutting was shriveled and wrinkly. Today, although the parts that had browned up are still browned up, the center of it is all plump and healthy-looking and maybe even photosynthesizing! I think it may have taken up water through the new roots and may be making its new plant under the surface of the vermiculite.
Also, I definitely have nine hippeastrum seedlings. One or two of them have put up the first leaflets in addition to their sprouty roots, woo hoo.
Not so! A week or so ago, the cutting was shriveled and wrinkly. Today, although the parts that had browned up are still browned up, the center of it is all plump and healthy-looking and maybe even photosynthesizing! I think it may have taken up water through the new roots and may be making its new plant under the surface of the vermiculite.
Also, I definitely have nine hippeastrum seedlings. One or two of them have put up the first leaflets in addition to their sprouty roots, woo hoo.
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Date: 2012-05-14 09:22 pm (UTC):)
It sounds promising!
Yay for 9 babies!
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Date: 2012-05-15 04:37 am (UTC)