restart

My little pilea has been um, looking awful. All the stems full of dead dried-up leaves to the last few inches. So I cut the good ends off to restart in water jars, and cut back, threw away all the rest of the stems. Probably going to start in a new pot again. Not sure if it was pests, or just dried out because I hadn't watered often enough.

There's lots of cuttings. Maybe I will restart two pots.

The smallest were two short for even those tiny jars, I should have just tossed 'em, but had this little string-of-hearts cutting too, so I put together in a medicine dosing cup.

That pot still looks very sparse, even though this is the second time I've taken cuttings to root and multiple. (It started as just one piece).

houseplant growth

My solid-green spider plant has two new runners, the white flowers already starting to fade as the baby leaves grow on the end of the shoots- 

They're like tiny white stars.

Young monstera leaf unfolded!

The wandering 'dude' bolivian (haha) is looking better- and it even grew enough that I took cuttings.

I was surprised when I first read that this plant is closely related to the trandescantia zebrina- but realized when I took the cuttings yeah, it's the same in minature. The stems feel the same, the leaves have the same type of structure, only so very much smaller. So little, that I put the cuttings in a empty fish food can.

My peace lily and heartleaf philodendron have been in this new spot for a while- moved up off the floor by a window, to living on a table by the window. It was enough increase in light to make a difference- they both have new leaves growing.

Angelwing begonia still doesn't seem to get quite enough light- it retains the ladderlike upright growth habit, even though I've pinched it twice. There's the two younger angelwings below it.

I was thinking of cutting it in half, and rooting the top to double its mass- but then found this!

It's growing a new shoot at the base. I'm tickled pink.

Not pictured: pilea also has more new leaves, it seems happy now. And upstairs, my lipstick plant has a new shoot! it's the first I've seen that one grow in a long time. Looking forward to its flowers this summer.

repotted

I put all my plants from that local seller in new pots- some slightly larger as they've grown a bit- with new and better soil. Glad I did, and probably should have done so sooner. Only the ficus had a good root system. The others it was so minimal they literally fell off the top of the soil onto my hand when upended. I don't know what the soil mix was- it seemed to have a lot of perlite and coir yet felt heavy and held the water too much. Regardless, I hope they do better now. They've been repotted two days and I am seeing a new leaf shoot on the monstera and the calathea, so maybe!