Plant Update

You may remember back in July I posted that I have decided to try to grow some houseplants. I already had a snake plant and a Thanksgiving cactus that I've had for a long time. 

The snake plant was way overgrown with the roots coming up above the soil and the plant going every which way. 

I cut all the roots apart and replanted it and it looked much better. 

 Here it is today. 

I looked on Google to see why the leaves aren't growing straight up and most of the websites said it's getting uneven light. It's by a window so I have to keep turning the plant every few days. Hopefully it straightens out. I may have to stake it. It's doing well though because there is new growth coming in. I just have to be careful not to water it too much. 

The next plant is this polka dot plant. 

It was nice and healthy when I got it. 

Then it started to get these long stems growing and they were getting flowers on them. This seems to me to be a particularly fussy plant! Supposedly it gets these long stems when it's not getting enough light, but if I put it directly in the window (still indirect sunlight) it wilts within a day or so. I cut all of the long stems off and put it back on the plant stand. It needs a lot of watering though. 

Here it is today. 

Not as healthy as it was when I first got it but I'm working on it! 

Then there is this star plant. 

It hasn't changed much since I got it. I think I was overwatering it because the outside leaves seemed to be rotting on the bottom. I cut them off and cut back on my watering. Also I moved a lot of the stones out of the pot. 

Here it is now. 

Then there is this crispy wave fern. 

And here it is today. 

I don't know about this one. No matter how much I water or don't water, move it to different types of light it just doesn't seem to be doing anything. I'll keep trying but may just give up on this one! 

The one plant I was worried about not being able to grow was the African Violet. Here is what it looked like when I got it. 

And here is what it looks like now!  

It's doing the best of all the plants! It's the easiest to care for in my opinion. I just keep water in the tray underneath it and it takes what it needs! 

I took a cutting from an Eternity plant and a hunk of a peace lily from the plants at work so I'm going to try to see if they will grow. 

In other news. I finally got my hair cut back to pre-pandemic days. 

 It's a little more work than just pulling it back into a clip but I like it. 

That's it for me for now. See you the next time and thanks for stopping by!