I've never taken care of plants before. I mean, besides watering.
But I've noticed that the plants in my house are having issues:
* One plant is just growing too large and I need to re-pot it. I figure that should be easy: I buy a pot (actually, two, because I think the two upshoots are two separate plants, but I don't know how entangled the roots are) and some soil. Currently, I have the plant resting on a ledge, otherwise, I think the part outside the pot weighs much more than the roots and the whole plant would topple itself out of the pot.
* Also, it'd never occurred to me that maybe I need to change soil occasionally, or at least add some fertilizer to add more nutrients to the soil. So I have some plants which are dying, and I suspect that replacing the soil will help. One is a cactus, and the top segments are sprouting little roots -- so I'm thinking I might break a segment off and try to replant it. (The first plant that I mentioned also is sprouting little roots from segments above the soil.)
* And I have forced-heat in my apartment, so it gets *really* dry, so I worry that I haven't been watering my plants enough. Also, I need to find a good table to put them on near the window, to get sun. Right now, I have a few chairs sitting by the window, since I don't have a good piece of furniture to place them on.
* I have one of those plants that ... what to do you call it ... that just keeps growing longer and longer, and people like to make cutting and give them away -- tear-shaped green/white leaves, one every 2 inches along a green vine. Anyway, due to abuse, mine is now one long (well a foot or two?) vine with *one* remaining leaf at the end -- the other leaves along the way have died and fallen off. But the base, in the soil, has started a fresh offshoot, so I'm hopeful there. I think the pot it's in should be OK, if I just re-soil it and make sure to water enough. (But the poor cactus is all droopy :( I'm afraid it can't be saved.)
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But I've noticed that the plants in my house are having issues:
* One plant is just growing too large and I need to re-pot it. I figure that should be easy: I buy a pot (actually, two, because I think the two upshoots are two separate plants, but I don't know how entangled the roots are) and some soil. Currently, I have the plant resting on a ledge, otherwise, I think the part outside the pot weighs much more than the roots and the whole plant would topple itself out of the pot.
* Also, it'd never occurred to me that maybe I need to change soil occasionally, or at least add some fertilizer to add more nutrients to the soil. So I have some plants which are dying, and I suspect that replacing the soil will help. One is a cactus, and the top segments are sprouting little roots -- so I'm thinking I might break a segment off and try to replant it. (The first plant that I mentioned also is sprouting little roots from segments above the soil.)
* And I have forced-heat in my apartment, so it gets *really* dry, so I worry that I haven't been watering my plants enough. Also, I need to find a good table to put them on near the window, to get sun. Right now, I have a few chairs sitting by the window, since I don't have a good piece of furniture to place them on.
* I have one of those plants that ... what to do you call it ... that just keeps growing longer and longer, and people like to make cutting and give them away -- tear-shaped green/white leaves, one every 2 inches along a green vine. Anyway, due to abuse, mine is now one long (well a foot or two?) vine with *one* remaining leaf at the end -- the other leaves along the way have died and fallen off. But the base, in the soil, has started a fresh offshoot, so I'm hopeful there. I think the pot it's in should be OK, if I just re-soil it and make sure to water enough. (But the poor cactus is all droopy :( I'm afraid it can't be saved.)