New pink plant for my pink plant themed #IkeaCabinetIndoorGreenhouse. The illustrious Philodendron Erubescens "Pink Princess" from my favourite women owned/black owned nursery!
Along with my two other friends, I'm hosting a West Seattle Pop-Up Plant Sale on the Sunday (5/26) of Memorial Day Weekend! Stop by from 10am-2pm to snag indoor and outdoor plants. Lots of parking, near transit, and around the corner from the West Seattle Farmer's Market.
Meanwhile, indoors, one of my #ChristmasCactus#houseplants has its last bloom (for this round). They bloom multiple times/year. I propagate a lot of them too.
I have now got some plants in my house. I want to know the best times to water them as well as a general knowledge on what is the best temp/light, what to look for in terms of unhealthiness etc.
I don't mind an app, but I don't want subscription!
My best thing would perhaps be a wiki/youtube videos on what to do to maintain my plants.
I don't mind if app has an one off payment of £ - ££.
Just divided my parlour palm. It was about 10 years old and I've pruned a lot of the root too! Hope they all survive. #gardening#plants#HousePlants@plants
Not only did the peace lily produce seeds: the seeds germinated, and now I have a number of ever so small peace lily seedlings.
On March 2nd I sowed some seeds on a wet paper towel in a petri dish that sat in the windowsill.
On March 29th some of the seeds seemed to have germinated (see first photo — can you spot the tiny roots?) and the germinated seeds were transferred to small pots that were kept in a “greenhouse” made from a plastic bag to avoid dehydration.
The second photo was taken today (April 20th) and shows a couple of seedlings that have developed their first leaf. Match for scale.
This is a project that has called for patience:
The period from pollination to seeds took 4-5 months. Then it took roughly 1 month for the seeds to germinate, and 3 weeks later the seedlings have just a tiny leaf each. Things can still go wrong, but I'm pretty confident that I will end up having several mature peace lilly plants grown from seeds.
Meanwhile, I have cross-pollinated two peace lily plants. One was the plant I've had for 10+ years. The other was a “miniature” plant I bought last summer, that was meant to sit on the very narrow windowsill in my bathroom. I was naive enough to hope that some gardener had developed a miniature cultivar of the peace lily, but I was fooled: the plant was just a baby plant of something that has now grown into a mature peace lily plant. Latipac be damned!
Now I hope that the two plants are unrelated, and not just perpetuated clones, so that the cross-pollination introduces some genetic variability. Perhaps I am wiser at the end of 2024.