Sunday, November 16, 2014

Houseplants

My stupid Mandevilla is not doing well indoors.  First it dropped all the flowers and stopped making them, which is fine, then it started losing leaves and not growing any more, and it's looking pretty thin.  Now it has spider mites all over the top, so I think I should just put it out of its misery.

The Hibiscus seems fine.  It's definitely not going to flower, but the leaves still look really good, and I kind of think it's still growing, although it's getting a little spindley.

The Jalapeno looks fine, I guess.  It never looked great, even outside.  The Ginger actually looks fine too, so we'll see how it goes.

I put the grow light on the curtain rod, over the little plant cluster, thinking if I leave that on sometimes it will give them enough light to get by.  The light is still like, 4 or 5 feet away from the plants, so I don't know if it even does any good.  If I could, I would love to grow greens inside this window, with the little bit of sun and the light.  Although, if I want to do that, it would be so much smarter to do it in the laundry room with the light up close.

I put the Clivia in the attic, hoping it will go into whatever dormant period it's supposed to go through, and maybe flower at some point.

I also have two different containers of Paperwhites going.  I don't think these look all that great, they're too tall, the flowers are not that big, but I'm going to try a few more rounds.

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