Offer what you have too much of, ask for what you want.
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A clubhouse for people with one windowsill and too many pots. Ask, show, and swap cuttings by post.
Offer what you have too much of, ask for what you want.
Yellow, brown, spotted or crawling. Bring a photo.
One shelf, one photo, no tidying up first.
Questions that feel too small for the other boards.
Offer what you have too much of. 412 topics, 18 of them from today.
| Topic | State | Replies | Hearts | Last word |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rooting a cutting in water, start to finish | Pinned | 48 | 131 | Kofi, 12 min |
| Three spider plant babies looking for a home | 2 left | 14 | 22 | Jun, 1 hour |
| Wanted: any pink-veined nerve plant | Wanted | 3 | 5 | Dana, 2 hours |
| Pothos by the metre, free to whoever asks | Open | 27 | 64 | Ilse, 5 hours |
| Jade plant leaves, posted in a matchbox | All gone | 19 | 40 | Tamar, yesterday |
| How do you post a cutting in winter? | Question | 11 | 17 | Rafael, yesterday |
Nearly every swap on this board starts with a stem in a glass. This is the whole method, with the two places where it goes wrong.
A node is the small bump where a leaf meets the stem. Roots come from there and from nowhere else. Label the glass with the name and the day, like pothos 04-03, because in three weeks you will not remember.
When the roots are as long as your thumb. Longer roots sulk in soil. If the stem goes soft instead, read what to do with mush or ask in a topic of your own.
Posting a cutting Winter swaps Which plants root in water Rooting in moss Back to the board
Mine has sat in the glass for five weeks and has one root the length of a grain of rice. The window faces north. Is that the reason, or is it the water?
It is the window. Move the glass to the brightest sill you have, out of direct sun, and change the water twice a week. North light roots a pothos in two months, east light in three weeks.
One plant, one question or one offer. A photo gets you an answer twice as fast.