Mrkva's first attempt

[Mrkva]

Strain:  unknown
Lighting:  natural (southern window, mostly indirect sunlight, 10hrs/day)
Grow Media/Soil Mix:  mulch:sand:perlite 2:2:1 (before 3.2. 09 without perlite)
Fertilizer:  none
Temperature Range:  20-25 degrees Celsius
Humidity:  around 50%
Started From:  Clone
Start Date:  end of January, 2009

Other Details/Images:
2nd February, 2009 (A week or so after arrival)


4rd February, 2009
- Moved avay from direct sunlight
- Two bottom leaves cutted off
- Added perlite to the soil
- Removed from humidity tent

[Sea Mac]

Welcome!

That looks OK now that you've taken it out of the direct sun.

[Mrkva]

Thanks for welcome!
I was on holiday, so in my room, there was a low temperature (I guess it droped at about 15C) and also I've used a "towel in the water tank" as watering method. Unfortunately, it seems it somehow damaged stem.
Leaves looks fine.

But the stem get brown a lot more:

Actually, I don't know if this is stem rot, because it isn't drippy or wet, but hard and dry, Can somebody help me, please? I think the best way'll be to carefully watch it and if it gets worse, take emergency cuttings. What do you think?
Thanks for any help.

[Hero4Evz]

What you have is the natural process of the stem hardening in order to help it better support the upper part of the plant. Similar to a tree's bark. As long as it stays firm your fine.

[Mrkva]

I've thought so. Thanks for confirmation.

[drift]

I came in here expecting to see some sally in poor condition, but yours look fine, Mrkva. They'll recover nicely, good luck with that.

[Peaches]

Nice Sallies,

 get that bigger pot ready, those roots grow fast.

[Mrkva]

Today picture - she is growing faster than I expected.

But I have two questions:
What about pinching? Do you think, it's the time to do it?
And secondary... What about making clones from leaves? Anyone tried doing this?

[Hero4Evz]

Leaves don't work for cloning. People on here have done it. It appears that salvia needs part of a stem to produce roots from (not the same as the thick vein of the leaf).

[Arcygenical]

Time to pinch

[Mrkva]

Sorry for later update - I just wanted to wait how the pinching will be successful - and here are the results:

The whole plant - nothing much to see, however


Detail on the top - it seems that two branches each with two small leaves are growing. So I guess it was successful. Thanks!

[Mrkva]

And after another month, I think she is growing pretty fine (on the side, there is 30cm ruler, to compare dimensions). But I really wish some side branches, to made cuttings

[drift]

And after another month, I think she is growing pretty fine (on the side, there is 30cm ruler, to compare dimensions). But I really wish some side branches, to made cuttings

How big is that pot? Your plant looks root bound to me and would probably explode with growth given a new container.

[Mrkva]

0.7l... Well, but bigger pot won't hurt anything, right?
UPDATE: Yes, you were correct... Inside the pot, there was almost nothing but roots. Now, she sits in nice 2.5l pot - and I've also made some changes in the soil composition:
- again 2:2:5 sand:perlite:mulch
- I've added some pine bark on the top of the pot, because we have an alkalic water in our region.
- also, the entire pot is covered by keramzit/hydraton (I don't know with what name it's sold in the US, it's just expanded clay), to keep moisture in.

[retro_killa]

And after another month, I think she is growing pretty fine (on the side, there is 30cm ruler, to compare dimensions). But I really wish some side branches, to made cuttings

It is time to re-pot your plant this will make the growth process a bit faster best of luck also look into buy clay pots they work wonders trust me or better yet look at my grow log to see what I am talking about