This plant has been considered to be weed for as long as I've been alive, but it is treasured by many and even cultivated. The video the time lapse which was taken from early morning until the sun went down over a 12 hour period. After the disaster occurred, I set up a time lapse camera in order to capture the plant's reaction to having been potted upside down. It was likely to die, but if it did not, I wanted to see if the leaves would turn back upward and how long it would take for that to happen. The plan was to do this over several days but the camera died on the second day. It is short, but sweet to watch.
Despite that glitch in my plan, I was very surprised to find out that it had moved in a positive direction. Better yet, that had survived at all. I have not planted anything on the top side of this pot as I did in my last post, but I'm sure I will find something suitable to mix roots with this guy.
Here is the back story - How it happened.
Last week, I made a post about a special kind of plant that smells funky. You might remember that one. It was was transplanted into a ceramic pot large enough for it to grow to full size. Many plants wilt and whether when transplanted. The spill was within a week and that likelihood grows if you keep pulling the roots out of the dirt.
Here's one of the pictures of that plant that I did not use on my last post, so it's still original.
I mentioned the word disaster in the title, so let me get to that part of the story. I was cleaning the terrace, high up on a ladder above the plants, taking down some old vines that grew during the summer and were clearly dead now. When I stepped down from the ladder, my heel hit the edge of that very same ceramic pot, containing a pot plant, and knocked it over. The dirt spilled all over the floor and the plant hit the floor. So here I am, looking at the plant that I had worked so hard to transplant without disturbing the roots and now the roots were actually bare. One project now turns into another more urgent one.
I was forced to stop what I was doing, and try to fix this situation and save the plant. I decided to try an idea I had in my head, which was to plant it upside down and then put another plant top side. I did not take any pictures of that process which I regretted later. Yes this is the first plant to be subjected to the silly space saver idea. If this weed had not survived, you would have never seen my most recent post on how to do it.
I was not sure if the plant would live or die, so this is a perfect opportunity to try this new idea that I had because, you know, the plant might die anyway. Now, my goal is not to make this plant into a tree, but rather, into a Bush that grows downward and turns its sleeves upward toward the sun, hopefully making it more bushy rather than tree like.
I had not taken pictures of the rescue, thus prompting the potato plant down/radishes up post.
Some say that many things are discovered by accident. This was mine. It only existed in my idea box in my head until I nearly killed one of the new plants I had just received. It looks like it may survive but it is still an experiment.
Today is the first rain since replanting it and I will be checked how the water drains up the the stem, rather than down.
Until, next time. I am anxious to post some of my new carnivorous plants which are in desperate need of new, larger pots.
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oh no, has this every happened to you?
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