Schlumbergera, Haitora, rabbit foot fern, & Ledebouria socialis are finally repotted.
While I would’ve preferred shallower/smaller clay pots for these particular houseplants, beggars can’t be choosers. At least the weight of the clay pots will make them less top heavy.
Fingers crossed that all the Schlumbergera truncatas in this repotting batch don’t end up aborting their flowerbuds.
Did an entire thread on twitter about repotting many of the houseplants (mainly the cacti/succulents) into larger (and mainly clay) flowerpots. The clay is key as the soil mix they’ve been put in is a bit more moisture retentive than I’d prefer for cacti. My Ferocactus I’m most proud of for their how much bigger they are from when they were little itty bitty seedings ;v; I need to make a knew before/after post for how much the Ferocacti grew. The one Echinopsis lost its rootball to probably rot so hopefully it’ll reroot in its new planter.
So many more houseplants need repotting before winter comes around the corner (Christmas Cacti, Pothos, Clivia, Dracanea to name the majority), its just getting around to the mess.
Today I got the Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) plantlets from the 2015 sowing (the first pic is admittedly not of said Jacks, rather that is of the 2016 sowed Jacks) all into their own individual pots at last. Many of them are still only just waking up from their corms which is fine by me as it’d be a LOT harder to repot them from their super-crowded pot if they were all fully awake and emerged.
With them no longer having to compete with their siblings + with me feeding them some granular fertilizer (eventually. For now I’m not giving them even a lick of fert) they should reach floral maturity much quicker (hoping under 2 years but that might be overly optimistic).
In the next few days the 2016-sown Jacks will be next to repot. We’re definitely gonna be reaching the 200+ mark once we got the 2016 Jacks potted up I’m sure. Thank god the greenhouse got a clean out to make for greatly-needed space!
Photographed May 18th 2018
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