Thank you Lin, I’m really happy that I was able to save it. I don’t know why it started doing bad, but at least for now I think it will be fine. All the top leaves are new growth. I’m also looking forward for it to bloom, but I guess it’s going to take a long time (lol)
Semi Hydro Hoyas
I rooted up some imperialis in SH, too, Lourdes... BANG! They rooted so quickly!!! Great photos illustrating your success!.
Thank you Carol, I thought I had nothing to loose since the plant was doing so bad. Now I'm very pleased with the results. I hope that it continues to do well.
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Congrats Lourdes...looks amazing!
Gabi
Thank you Gabi, it's growing a lot!
Lourdes and Mark - how are you two getting the nice little uniform holes in your containers? I've been burning holes in mine - works fine, but looks crappy! Great plants by the way!
Carol- I don't think the net pots would allow for good moisture retention. Although I found intructions on how to make a semihydro rooting chamber or something....using the net pots, a storage container and an aquarium bubbler! May be a winter project for me! How did you root your imperalis in it? Different container?
I just love this semi-hydroponics stuff!
Kelly
OH...different container. I like to use shallow containers for rooting a number of plants together....like the trays from the bottom of big pots...drill holes in them sometimes. Then I can lay the cuttings in the semihydro at a 45 deg. angle...they seem to like that.
Thank you Kelly, as for your question; this particular pot I bought like that, however for others that I've made, I have two ways either I use an old kitchen thermometer that was not longer working, heat up with a candle and make the holes. Some look crappy too (lol) Or I use a drill and works fine too. =)
Kelly. I heat up the tip of a phillips head screwdriver in the burner of my gas stove and then push it through. Like a hot knife and butter.
After reading this thread, I'm determined to try a few of these this weekend. My only question is what happens when the roots find their way into the resevoir? Do they continue to grow in the water?
Doug
Yes Doug, they do! I have collections of small pots all growing together in large bulb pots hanging in the greenhouse. In order to get the height of the small pots up, I fill the bulbpan with perlite to be a sort of artificial floor....and of course the perlite stays moist....and when I pull the small pots out, the roots have all grown into the perlite!!! Will try to take a photo today....
Carol
Thanks, Carol.
This time I learned my lesson; I'm going to start very slowly with trying this method out rather than moving too quickly and losing the roots on most of my collection like my debacle this spring with Tapla's mix.
Doug
Doug, how did the re-rooting pan out?
Mark,
The re-rooting worked out really well. I only ended up losing a couple of plants when all was said and done. It did however set me back quite a lot of time, not to mention the aggravation involved. Some plants are doing better since the incident, and others are doing worse so I guess it worked out as a kind of a wash in the long-run.
Doug