I love sitting out in our garden, surrounded by our pot plants
and the few plants I’ve managed to grow, contemplating what they need from me
next. Today I had to perform surgery on
a pot which housed my dinosaur plant (a cycad), two succulents, and a
mysterious sprout we noticed last night.
I bought the cycad recently because it’s native to NZ and I hope to grow
it into a magnificent house tree. Upon digging down, I discovered that the
sprout had a huge root!
A similar thing happened to my Meyer lemon tree when I let a little wee sprout live in it's pot for a month as a tiny little being. Spring warmed up and the thing grew into a capsicum tree. This tree overshadowed any possibility of performance from my poor lemon tree which nearly died. It lost all but three of its’ already miniscule leaves. I couldn’t really do anything to help them until we moved properly to Indiana after our visit home so that lemon tree has lost nearly a year of growth! I've separated them out and it’s looking good now though, with 12 quite big leaves and a few more on the way. I’m glad it’s healthy looking before the long months of near dormancy during winter.
A similar thing happened to my Meyer lemon tree when I let a little wee sprout live in it's pot for a month as a tiny little being. Spring warmed up and the thing grew into a capsicum tree. This tree overshadowed any possibility of performance from my poor lemon tree which nearly died. It lost all but three of its’ already miniscule leaves. I couldn’t really do anything to help them until we moved properly to Indiana after our visit home so that lemon tree has lost nearly a year of growth! I've separated them out and it’s looking good now though, with 12 quite big leaves and a few more on the way. I’m glad it’s healthy looking before the long months of near dormancy during winter.
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