Tea tree | Terrarium

I don’t know what my brother did, but here’s what my once-healthy tea tree looks like now. The roots aren’t drawing the hydroponics solution up any longer.

All four plants exhibited the same symptoms and all died.

 

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On a slightly fun-er note, I made two terrariums. I hope the plants won’t rot and die or something.

Step One

Fill the bottom of the bottle with gravel to facilitate drainage.

Step Two

Add charcoal to help absorb impurities and poison(???).

Step Three

Add a layer of long-fiber sphagnum moss and a green netting over to prevent the potting mix (peat moss, in this case) from settling down too deeply.

Finished Products?

I sure hope they don’t die/rot on me! I’ve left the covers off to regulate the moisture in the jars now. So…

Tea tree

It might be premature to say this, but I think my long-grown tea tree plants are dying/almost dead.

Fucking pissed. Just five days away of being on a trip and leaving clear instructions to my brother, and this happens.

Followed my instructions my ass.

And my dad too.

I hate this bloody house.

New plants

Bought two Cibotium barometz. =) Woolly fern.

Bought some cephalotus also.

New plant, and bay

Kinda coerced my dad to buy that fuzzy cute succulent I always wanted. NO THORNS! =D Still waiting for an ID from any GCSers, but in the meantime, here are some pictures:

It’s known as the starfish plant, Asclepiadaceae stapelia. The flower looks weeeeiiiird:

 

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The bay plant that SJ gave me some time ago has grown quite well. Thank you SJ!

Test of garbage enzyme on mealy bug | White sage

Okay, I found a large mealy bug on my mint plant the other day. So I thought I’d try my diluted garbage enzyme on it. From this single experiment (need to test more to draw solid conclusions), I’ll say that the G.E. does work in killing mealies – I sprayed on it before work, and about eight hours later when I came home to check the mealy’s carcass was just fluffy cotton.

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First batch of white sage didn’t sprout.

Re-heated second batch directly on the aromatherapy burner and re-sowed.

Now let’s see how this batch does.

White sage seeds

10 October – sowed white sage seeds.

Random updates – mints, lemon eu, lemon myrtle, butterwort

This post will be more of a pictorial update on some plants.

Butterwort giving out flower stalks. I’ve cut off two of them and only let one grow. It has a cute purple flower.

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My lemon myrtle now.

And my lemon eucalyptus growing all the way out.

Reeeallly growing out/up.

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My grapefruit mint with runners. Wow.

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My variegated peppermint – wow, “worse.”

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Please DON’T over fertilize your plants…

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Rosemary. I can’t decide if it’s doing well, or not.

Looks okay from afar.

Sorry for the silhouetted pic – some leaves curling up; some curling down.

Everywhere.

Heat germination of seeds – tea tree

Two more just put out tiny sprouts. So it’s eight days and nine days…

Heat germination of seeds – 4th update

Four tea tree seedlings finally germinated today.

Since I did the heating and warming, and sowed the seeds on 25th September, that’s…EIGHT days these took to germinate.

Hm…

24 February to 7 March. That’s about ELEVEN days for my first ever batch of tea tree seeds to sprout.

So, I guess that the heat did help germination by a little bit. It’d take more trials to verify this.

For newtogardening

This is my lemon myrtle in May 2009, I think about half a year after I bought it. When I first bought it, it was about 2/3 of the size now…for $10. Go Kwang Kee okay? =)