Zaorr's Grow log

[JD1stTimer]

Order in the next twenty minutes and get the second pinching ABSOLUTELY FREE!

[Sea Mac]

Thanx Mac

This stuff is amazing.

Today is the first day I had to water her in a time frame of three day's. I never had sally drooping on me yet. Her roots is also showing through the draining holes. I got myself some chunky orchid mix for a chunky mix and bigger pots. I think I'll repot her next week.

Did you look at my Tutorials yet?
http://sageseeds.info/tutorials/index.php
there's a section on soils too.

[zaorr]

Pinching Sally? Wouldn't that be a little degrading? Hehehehe!!

I have been thinking about it, I want to generate enough plants before spring this this year (September for me) to flower by next fall.At this rate it looks like I will have some anyway. The plant is forming side shoots at every node thus far. Maybe I will pinch it a little later to give them some size for cuttings.

Leaves,... Ordering leaves I think is a better option at this point of time. Later casualties should provide. Hehehe!

[Arcygenical]

I pinch every third node. I would never let Salvia grow without pinching... She really responds amazingly to it. In 3 months I was able to take 27 cuttings from a single plant, by pinching it right from clone!

[zaorr]

Time for an update.

Here is my two girls as they were this Saturday



Their leaves are turning out to be beautiful. There is this gorgeous suede shimmer I tried to catch in the sunlight but didn't quite succeed. Quite mesmerizing.


Here is the mamma's stem:



NEXT DAY REPOTTING TIME. Whoohoo!!!

Mixed the soil according to the advice I gathered here, half orchid mix half peatless compost and about a 7'th fine perlite.


Filled the bottom of the pot with some crushed lava rock (foundry ash ) to keep the stuff from falling out of the holes or water collecting down there.


Nice healthy rootball.


And TADA!! A nice teenage mutant ninja sally pot. Cowabunga!! 


And now we wait.........

[JD1stTimer]

WOW, that's beautiful!  And I can see the shimmer you're talking about.  That stem is THICK! I didn't realize it would look like that.

I'm curious, is the foundry ash something you buy at a hardware store or did you take it directly from the foundry leavings?  I would expect there to be heavy metals and other toxins, arsenic and such.  It's something you might want to look into if you haven't already since sally is usually cultivated with the intent of human consumption.

[zaorr]

They usually sell the "lava rock" chunks in pet stores here by us. It is safe to use as aquatic features.

You also get a finely crushed version they usually sell at nurseries but those are usually sold out.

I think they are just balls of burnt up anthracite. That would make them rich in sulfur and other minerals.

Foundry used ash might have poisonous deposits you are talking about if they were used for brass smelting.

[JD1stTimer]

Oh, sweet. I guess it's about the same as what we get in the BBQ section of our stores.  We use them some for landscaping but not too much anymore because they cut kids up pretty bad when they trip and fall in it.  So I see it mostly in gas grills as an insulator/radiator.

[zaorr]

Yes, it sounds like you have the stuff.

They are airy and full of nooks and crannies, air pockets etc, It makes them a excellent potting soil conditioner.

It has gained sudden popularity around here a few years ago. You only really see them in aquatic stores for lightweight display features(Excellent for marine tanks), as they wont break the glass when they fall over etc...

The ones you get in nurseries here is always out of stock, someone usaully comes along and buys the whole lot and that is the end of it. Man I hate that.

[zaorr]

I was looking around for a good global scale object that can be included in pictures that needs it. I thaugt, PENCILS!! But I can't find one. I guess a bic pen is a good substitute, I don't know. I guess bic is big globally what do you think?



Big girls, you are beutifull!! 

[JD1stTimer]

That's ALMOST a pencil.   I don't think I've seen one of those pens before.  Our bics are normally either clear hard plastic or white flexible plastic.  I bet they're the same size though.

[MstryShovel]

looks awesome man, I love that sheen-shimmer myself my plants got one thats out of control and i just stand there amazed and look at it

[Sea Mac]

Nice healthy happy plants!

Good Job!

[zaorr]

Thanx Mac

Glad to see you're still kicking. I heard you were out of action for a while.

btw. The plant is growing rapidly after the repot, she was getting very pale yellow on the new growth even after some fertilizing, now after a second fertilizing and some quano the plant seems to be greening again. Didn't stop it from growing though. I am just a little concerned, when they are teeny they bruise so easy over a little nitrogen, now she doesn't seem to get enough.

Could be the new pot that took a while to get the nitrifying bacteria going again.

I pinched her with a nail clipper so I'll be expectin some strong side growth soon. The next generation will be flower sporters I promise.

[zaorr]

Hi

I need to update the progress on my little one.

This is the smaller sally in my growlog. She is tied up in a mychorrizal relationship. I have inoculated her roots with the product when I potted her.

She has never received soil feeding but I have messed her up with a foliar spray once. That was when I decided to leave her alone. She is doing much better than I have expected and for some funny reason she stay's green.

I feel I have to state that she has been potted using half river sand and half coco choir.

No cupping or curling due to humidity changes like my bigger plant. Studying her leaf edges closely is an adventure that doesn't seem to exist with my bigger plant. I think the box did not lie with its claims that the mico's feed, strengthen, and protect its host plant.

I was skeptical about the compatibility of salvia in a partnership and judging from the net and its entire collection of articles on the subject it didn’t seem like sally would be good. I was glad they were wrong and that I still tried it. She is clearly an excellent candidate.