I made a lot of posts featuring something planted upside down over the last year. Today, I thought I would update you on a few of those experiments.
Here's one.
But you say, "This one is planted normally."
Well...
Both of these lovely root baring plants grow in a similar fashion, and I can rarely the difference between the two while they're growing. This pot, has one ginger marked on the outside. So I know the plant nearest that word is a ginger plant.
There is a mix ginger and turmeric. It started out growing from the bottom where the leaves were first seen, and I had planned to plant something else up top. But the plant had a different idea in mind and now she grows from both ends.
Look at the size of the stalks on these things and it's only the beginning of Summerk.
Here's the planter that I had harvested last year, it was turmeric and ginger and I assume it will be bit mixed again this year. This pot is going crazy.
Peppers
The one worth mentioning is the upside down chili peppers do have trouble finding the Sun but they are growing we will have to see if peppers pop up on their stems.
It has very thick and dark green leaves but these plants have trouble finding the sun.
They attempt to sprout and then do a U turn into the bottom of the pot.
Drosera "Red"
Another of my upside down plants to be conceptualized, and I think it was one of the first, is this red drosera.
It has pitcher plants growing up top which are doing well. Those would not do well upside down. But this Drosera has kept its flowers and has been abundantly producing leaves since I planted it about a year ago. It eats tons of bugs, and seems to be thriving. Look at the trains of flowers - which will render seeds when I pick them.
Flower stalks don't always make it to the outside, I just gave this one a little help finding the place where it can go up in order to find the bees.
I give it a little help when needed.
If this plant were growing up top, I would have to top up the moss, otherwise it would fall to one side or the other. But, because this one is hanging, I cannot add moss and it will never fall. Since it is already hanging, I'm going to let it take its course and see what happens. Repotting it is not an option at this point. I would have to cut the pot away from it and there would be no way to get it into a new pot while also letting it keep it upside down orientation.
I'm not going to mess with it. I can't really look up what to do with an upside down planted drosera using AI or even Google because I'm not sure if anyone has ever done this before. But it's healthy and we will see! The same goes for the ginger plant..
That is it for today. I cannot get in at InLeo, so am posting from Hive. I hope you are all having a wonderful start to 2026!
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