#happy plants

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Although it seems early, it’s almost time to start prepping for the garden if you’re growing from seed!! These grow bags are much cheaper than buckets or pots, and if like me the only option you have is container gardening, I recommend these grow bags.

Happy gardening!!

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My succulent loves the summer weather, especially after I try to murder it every winter when I have to actually try to keep it alive.

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check out my new baby 🌿🌿

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12/18/2022

A baking day with old coworkers

A friendly bathroom

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One day I'll manage to portrait them all together.

One day... 😂

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Beheading a Succulent

How to do it successfully and why I did it 🌱

When succulents don't get enough light, they stretch their stems towards the sun to grow closer to the light. When I first brought home my vera higgins, they were deprived of light and stretched a lot. I moved them to my windowsill and their colors started coming back, but I noticed they were still stretching. So, I beheaded them. I'm giving them more light and a fresh start.

Here is a photo of my very etiolated vera higgins. The leaves are very spaced apart and it is leaning. You could leave it like this and simply add more light, but I didn't want to, so I cut it.

To cut the stem, remove a few leaves so you have space to cut it. Make sure to leave a few leaves at the bottom and some at the top.

This is right after the beheading. You can see that the stem is green in the middle, that's an "open wound" for plants. The top will have the same, and planting it in soul directly can lead to rot. So, wait a few days for the wound to callous, then place it in dry dirt in the sun.

In a few weeks, roots will sprout! The head will be very thirsty, so give it a drink. If you give it water without roots, it'll only rot the stem, so make sure the roots are visible.

This is how long my roots were when I watered it. What I did was take it out of the dirt, wet the dirt and let it drain, then placed it back in the now damp dirt. That way I wouldn't have to worry about drowning the plant or getting water on the leaves.

This is the pot I use for my beheaded succulents. You want something small so the dirt can dry out enough. With too much dirt, it'll take longer to dry out. Make sure it has drainage holes and a well draining soil.

Now, for the beheaded bottom. The bottom should be watered as it usually is, since it already has plenty of roots. The bottom leaves may shrivel up and die because it is using its energy to make new growth and might need the support from the lower leaves. This is why it's important to keep a few leaves at the bottom.

This is what the bottom of the succulent looks like a few weeks after being beheaded. It'll never grow the same way again, but it will create pups on the sides of the stem. It looks odd at first, you may notice a small bulb and freak out, but give it time and it will turn into a pup.

That is all I have for this blog, but I will be posting about how to propagate succulents by leaves soon, so consider giving me a follow if you're a plant lover who wants happy plants! 🌿

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Welcome to the Morning Glory patch from our resident guard gnome 😉

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My String of Turtles lookin happy in its faux turtle shell pot

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happy babies

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Point of view: You've royally pissed off the most powerful being on the planet.

(Knives is currently not on the planet but above so it counts)

(please click on the full image! It's DIN A3 and the effect is better in full view, especially Vash's glowing eyes! Little close ups under the cut)

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Bee stamps 🐝