Critter told me not long ago that problems didn't seem so bad if you'd eat a worm a day. Well, break out the worms 'cause a tray just fell off the shelf full of partly, the beautiful little mins critter sent me and part of my Lyndon Lyon leaves that were just showing ears. Some of the mins I had potted into mini terra cotta pots,all but a few broke. The names were written on the sides so now I don't know who's who. Most of the LL were out of their pots so ditto on who's who.
I got them all up and back into fresh pots and gathered as many leaves that I felt were still usable and struck them all in a big community pot since I can't tell one from the other.
I had spent some time earlier this am grooming,preening and admiring all my plants and apparently I did not get the tray firmly back on the shelf. The trays are twice as long as the shelf is wide so I have to set them long-ways to get as many as I can on there but if I watch what I'm doing(apparently wasn't this am),making sure to have the heaviest end to the rear of the shelf,it works. This shelf is the one I can get leaves and babies closest to light. I gotta get my big bench in before I have some more trays bailing off that shelf which would be close to a 6 ft.drop.
Pity Party anyone? I'll bring the worms.
P
Worm eating day!
My heart goes out to you! It almost made me cry reading it : (
Hugs,Nancy
Oh no - I am so sorry! You deserve a major pity party.
Sharon
I don't think worms would even do it. Uuuuuuuuuh!
A nightmare for all of us, P. My heart goes out to you. Good luck with your new babies.
So sorry
Appreciate everyones kind words. If this was the first time it's happened I wouldn't feel so foolish. Oh well,,,"life gives you lemons...make lemonade" Break some av's,pot up the leaves and make some babies".
P
Oh that is a bit of bad luck. Sorry, but you seem to be taking it in stride- if it was me I'd be too busy crying to talk about it.
That is awful. I have droped a few but never a tray full. That is enough to make you cry a river.
I am so sorry because I know it has to feel really bad.
I know exactly how you feel. Wish I could help you.
How sad, BigRed! But, um...WORMS??? I hope they're the gummy variety!! ; )
Good luck getting it all sorted out and cleaned up! What a bum deal!
Cj
Yes, I'm trying to remember... I'm thinking it was either Mark Twain or Ogden Nash who said, "Eat a worm first thing in the morning, and then nothing worse can happen to you for the rest of the day."
I'd rather have eaten a real, live red wiggler than to have that tray of spilled pots to deal with... I'm sorry! I know how I feel if I manage to knock one pot off the end of the shelf... I did drop a whole tray of tomato seedlings once. :-( At least you know that the lost-tag AVs were either ones I sent or ones from your L. Lyon order... so when they bloom, we should be able to ID them!
Sorry to hear it, bigred. What a rotten bit of luck...
Pity Party, yes but, ICK! No Worms!
Been There .... Done That ! ( Not the worm eating!! )
I've Never dropped a whole tray of AV's, but have dropped singles, as well as multiples of other plants over the years! Not much we can do when stuff happens, just brush it off, and try again! I'm such a clutz that if I cried every time I dropped plants, my eyes would be permanently red! LOL. It makes me so mad when I just finish re-potting a bunch of stuff and precede to dump it all over the deck, and then have to start all over again ... and I REALLY hate it when I've just cleaned my deck area and then drop plants ... and have to sweep up the dirt and wash down the deck all over again! That happens to me a lot!,
Anyhow ....Bigred, I sure hope your little "babies" are okay, AV's are a lot more fragile than my houseplants. Regular ole' plants are more forgiving. Keep us posted, okay? And, I will say a wee little prayer that those wee li'l babies of yours will be okay.
Lin
Last Memorial Day, we traveled up to Pittsburgh to see my family. My brother just moved to a new house, and their raised back of their sunny kitchen counter is a prime spot for plants, so I was bringing some to share. I had a lovely AV in bloom, all potted up for my sister-in-law, as well as some smaller AVs and other plants. DH wasn't paying attention when he packed things in the car, and a big pot full of dirt crashed over and dumped half its load of potting mix right on the box of AVs! The begonia in the pot was toast, couldn't even salvage a cutting from it... and the big AV lost nearly all its leaves on one side. The little ones were in better shape, so I gave them a bath and brought them along to their new home... but the big one went back to "Jill's AV Spa" to recouperate... Remarkably, it had regained its symmetry and started blooming again by Labor Day! Now it has a central "show off" spot on the back of the counter. :-)
The leaves do break off easily, but the plants are more resiliant than you'd think!
Back in the 80's when I was raising av's for wholesale and retail,this room(computer/plant room now) had way more light benches in it than now for winter growing babies and starting leaves. My kids were still living at home and had just gotten a couple of kitten. There wasn't a door on this room so I put up one of those expandable baby gates to keep the kittens out. I had 6-8 trays of leaves(probably 24 pots to a tray) I had struck about a week before on a bottom bench,went to town, came back and those darn kittens had climbed the gate and romped thru every last tray of those leaves. I did cry that day and to this day will not own a cat.
Critter,
when you first told me that..earlier this year,the same blasted thiing had happened and has happened before w/ tomato seedlings. Just when will I learn? I'm diffenantly getting that big bench back in this weekend while hub's is home and he can get young man across the street to help him carry it in.
P
Oh bigred: Don't blame the poor little kitties .. that's what they do .... kittens are very playful! I have 4 adult cats and have to watch them around my MANY plants .... they like to taste test! Which is a big NO NO since some plants are poisonous to animals! I have my AV's and other plants in a my 5 East facing windowsills and of course, the cats would want to be in those particular windows! My plants win out on that one! There are other windows in this house as well as a huge screen enclosure the cats can spend time in!
Lin
Lin,
I've got 4 boston terrors(not a type-o)that give me plenty of headaches and they wouldn't be too happy with kitties unless they were served up on toast points...LOL
P