Today I am repotting several plants: the Amazon lily, the midnight lady, and the millionaire.
It is a lily with dark green leaves. I don't know its local name, but its scientific name is Eucharis amazonica.
It is not very demanding in terms of substrate; although most of the nutrients have already been consumed, it has multiplied and replicated four more bulbs.
I proceed to remove all the old substrate, which is already compacted, and replace it with new substrate to which I add river soil, a little dry stick, rice husks, and some coconut fiber, with integrated humus.
My aim is for the plant to have aerated roots. When I start to stimulate flowering with my homemade liquid fertilizers, it will not only replicate but also bloom again this year.
Its flowers start from the flower stalk, producing three to seven flower buds. This time it produced five flowers, a beautiful crown in the center, with five white petals around it. The first ones are born and then die. We keep the seeds that remain after pruning the flowers, and then the seeds continue to grow and thicken at the end. They have a good prognosis; it is a very docile plant.
It returns to a shady spot under my semi-shade mesh roof to continue its evolution.
Another plant I will rescue is my midnight lady, whose scientific name is Epiphyllum oxipetalum. It belongs to the cactus family, although it has no thorns, meaning it is more of a succulent than a cactus.
Its popular name in my country, Venezuela, comes from the fact that it blooms at night and falls off during the day to die.
As the flower opens during the night, at dawn, the flower deteriorates and loses its rigidity, allowing the weight of the dead flower to drop in the morning.
It is a flower very similar to the Pitahaya flower. The difference is in the branches, which are not thorny. They have flattened leaves, and in the center, they have a thickened innervation that allows them to remain upright.
It is a plant that attracts a lot of pests. The mother plant I had before this one died because I couldn't get rid of the pests. I hope that now I can defend it from pests with my household pesticide spray.
The millionaire, as this plant is commonly called, has a scientific name I do not know. Like many others who have been called millionaires, this plant sold very well when there was a boom in the superstition that it attracted money to businesses and homes. Then it gave way to another millionaire, and this plant lost the market it had before in my plant nursery.
It is a plant with small green leaves dotted with white spots all over its surface. It grows very close to the ground, one leaf next to another, and its proliferation is very striking due to its lushness.
Now that all my plants have been transplanted, they will be put aside to wait for them to adapt to the substrate, which will be very quick. Then they will return to their usual semi-shade.
That's all for now in my garden.
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