Mississippi Squad

[JohnAndSancho]

Bought a new grow bulb. Now I have an extra 5w that'd be great for philodendrons, but nowhere to put it. Oh look, here's an old swing arm floor lamp, I wonder if it bends easily. YEP, it sure did. 

Upgraded from 5w to 35w. I like these Sansi bulbs. They're cheap and have a 5 year warranty. I should be sponsored.

Look at the rootball on this Chamaedorea Elegans. Freebie from Wellspring Gardens. Yeah it's plug sized, but it's nice. Looks better than a lot of big box plants I see. 

Cuban Red, Ensete Marelli, and C. Elegans all potted up. The Cuban was free too but I had to pay for shipping since I didn't spend their $15 minimum. I'll post a YouTube vid later on. 

 

I also bought a power strip with USB and more outlets so I can add heat and a humidifier back there for winter. 

Red Latan has seemed to perk up, but - just to be clear, there's a difference in a grow light 5 feet above you and even part sun. Little sunburned on the oldest leaf that was already browning, but it's less droopy. 

 

I watered everything really good last night when I took the trash out. Just a long deep soak with the mist setting. So of course it rained today. 

 

Oh. And do y'all think I got enough willow or should I go back for more? 😂

 

That'll make lots of willow water and fill plenty of 1g bags. 

 

 

 

[JohnAndSancho]

Well, I dunno what the cutoff for "shorts" is, but I get a lot less views if it's over 3 minutes. Anyway here's some bananas. 

 

[JohnAndSancho]

Ugh. So I cut up the willow branches, and in true John fashion I made sure to get lots of twists and bends and forks and stuff. I put them all in this old auto parts bucket to soak and root. 

 

I cut and broke up tons and tons and tons of little green branches to make willow water to water my seedlings with. I come inside for a minute and go back outside, and this bucket apparently has a crack in the bottom of it, and all the water leaked out. All of the kitty litter pails have holes in them. I can't find another bucket, but guess what I did find? 😂

 

 

Yep! Old Christmas popcorn bucket. Let's see how long this holds water. I'm trying not to use a trash bag for this, but if I got to, I got to. 

 

And I cleaned, by hand, every damn one of these papaya seeds. 

 

I also came across a deal I couldn't say no to. These things are selling like crazy right now, they grow fast, they pup like crazy, and I got 2 12" plants for the price of what one 2" plant sells for, so I kinda had to. Blue java tissue culture bananas. I got 2 of these for $30 shipped. 

 

So knowing my luck, about the time I get pups these will be in Home Depot for $12. Anyway I should have crap tons of various banana pups at the end of next summer regardless. And I should have sellable papayas by January because everyone knows January is tropical plant buying season. 

[JohnAndSancho]

Flood of YouTube links since I seen to have forgotten one from last night and I'm dropping 3 tonight. I am only 2,998,100 views and 476 subscribers away from being able to monetize this channel so that's cool. That's all? Anyway hopefully y'all like these. 

Shop Upgrades and new nanners!

 

Papaya seeds on the mat and what's going on with my sprouts????? 

 

Philodendron/Seed Rack and the kind of empty looking Palm Condo™ with more love for my Mekong Giant. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/-Ngxylnlork?si=jpBFMuYMqHEwIEYI

I'll do the Spider Mite Factory© and maybe the backyard pile tomorrow. Don't judge me on the tall grass.