Hey houseplant people! Did you know it's a good idea to flush your houseplants with water every now and then? Excess minerals and more importantly salts can build up in your potting soil, so you want to water them thoroughly so that water is running out of the bottom, at least every once in a while.
I was needing to do that for my hanging plants since I hadn't in ages, but was there an easier way than pulling them out of their macrame hangers, which is kind of difficult? Well, if your sink looks like mine, you can hook them onto the cupboard handle above!
excuse my messy kitchen, lol, I'm working on it
This one really needed a good soak also because I had added that pothos vine to the pot to cohabitate recently, and so it's still rooting.
I love my big beautiful Boston Fern
It took THREE soakings using the kitchen sprayer until water finally ran out the bottom for the first one, the Xanadu philodendron+pothos vine, two for the Boston fern, and two for the third pot which is another pothos. So they really needed it! The air here is always dry, but it's worse in winter because the heating dries it out even more. I do run a humidifier and they are in plastic pots!
Soon I'm going to need to repot another one of my hanging plants that doesn't have drainage holes and has been in the same pot for years, but at least these plant friends got a good soak/flushing out.
Update on trying to grow algae on purpose for Macha and Sanglainn to eat: I do seem to have some going in the jar! I'm not sure what kind it is, though. Waiting on advice from a snail group to see if anyone knows. I've had diatoms in the tank before and they don't look like this, but that's what comes up when I search "brown algae." If I search "gold algae" there is apparently such a thing but it seems to not generally grow in aquariums? So we'll see what others think.
Update on growing ferns from the runner cuttings without roots being part of the cutting: it's totally working! There are three fronds now in my little terrarium pot (calling it that because I have a plastic drainage bowl over the top like a lid to keep moisture higher). 馃槂
Thank you for joining me in houseplant forest. 馃槃 What kind of houseplants do you grow?
