New Salvia Plant

[MstryShovel]

yes looks like she has perked up nicely,

seamac: IDK if you would be able to do that (spiral stem thing)I tried training the stems a bit and after i removed the trainer, they just straitened back up (it was over a weeks time that the trainer was on) and hardly even looked like they had been trained afterwards. oh well, it would bee cool to see something bamboo-ish where they braid the stems.

[Sea Mac]

I had a plant that grew a branch into a corner of the fence with a support beam and it got deflected downward and wound up growing into a perfect loop. It was an accident but I learned she CAN be trained: It takes an immobile frame and a couple of months.

I hadn't thought about braiding one: I'll bet either "Fluffy" or "Fluffy Sr." would hold still for that ...  they are both multi-branchers ...

  

Please ... don't give him IDEAS!

[mephisto69]

Well, I have had my plant for a little over five weeks now.  Not much has changed since my last entry, although - as you can see from the following pictures - most of the leaves on the top of the plant have darkened and have been removed. 




But as you can see from the pictures, she is growing VERY well at the bottom.





I fertilized her for the first time last week, and she seemed to take it very well.  Now the question is, what do I do now?  She is growing very well at the bottom, but the top of the plant leaves much to be desired.  I am very tempted to basically cut off the top of the plant (not far above the bottom leaves) and try to root it.  I want to wait until the leaves growing on top get a little bigger to help give it a better chance, but I do think it will help the bottom of the plant grow even better.  Any ideas?

[MstryShovel]

wait a bit so you dont shock the plan totoo much but yeah you could almost definately set that stem to root, a couple of times actualy (each node can produce sets of leaves)