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I got a SHITTY plant from Patch Plants

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This was my 6th or 7th order from Patch Plants. I used to receive good quality of plants from patch so I kept using Patch.

On one of the past orders, I got ZZ plant (Zanzibar Gem), Calathea Orbifolia (Prayer Plant) and Phlebodium aureum(blue star fern). The ZZ plant was okay but the Prayer Plant had the worst quality out of all previous orders. (Swiss cheese plant is the worst one now though) Phlebodium aureum and Calathea Orbifolia had brown-ish leaves and there were weird marks on leaves. Also they looked vulnerable.

I thought that was a one-off lapse in quality so I bought another plant from Patch, expecting a nice quality of plant as before.

This is what I received from Patch. I couldn’t believe what I got. It’s Swiss cheese plant (Monstera adansonii) and it’s broken and withered. Also one leaf had torn. I don’t understand why they gave me this shitty looking plant. I’m trying to save this plant but I don’t think I can. It’s too vulnerable.

I sent this picture to Patch and they said a replacement plant was going to be delivered. They delivered a DIFFERENT plant to a DIFFERENT HOUSE. They never delivered to a different house before. It wasn’t even to my next door neighbours or my neighbourhood. So I couldn’t even pick it up. So in the end, they refunded money.

I’m not going to use Patch again.

Growing cacti from seeds

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I wanted to have cacti but I couldn’t find any good quality ones at reasonable prices. So I bought cactus seeds from ebay. It was really cheap and I can see the whole growth process of cacti. Actually I’m not sure whether I can germinate these seeds but I gave it a go.

I bought paper pots and potting mix soil for the cacti seeds.

I bought Neobuxbaumia Tetetzo (15seeds £1.24), Echinocereus Viereckii (15seeds £1.50), Browningia/Azureocereus hertlingianus (15seeds £1.50) and I also bought 20 Bird of Paradise seeds.

These are the Bird of Paradise seeds. I thought they were fake seeds when I saw them for the first time because of the bright orange coloured hair on the seeds.

These small seeds are cacti seeds!

I put soil in the pots and made name tags with dates on it. I seeded all of them on the 26th of April.

I watered and put the seeds in the soil. I also covered the pots with clingfilm to keep them moisturised.

I’m writing this post on the 15th of may and I’m still waiting for them to germinate. The Bird of Paradise seeds are said to take 8 weeks to grow sprouts and cactus takes a few weeks.

Plants update

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It’s been a month since I wrote the last post so I’m going to do an update on my plants !

I recently got more plants and they are moonstones pachyphytum, variegated rubber plant, corn plant (it was a my birthday present!) and a lot of seeds.

However there is a bad news that my Norfolk pine died. I did everything I could do, such as, using plant light, repotting, changing soil but it died.

I will upload everything one by one.

Rotting Fishbone Cactus

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My fishbone cactus is growing new sprouts but also rotting at the same time. I knew I needed to cut off the rotten stems but I didn’t know why this was happening. So I asked about this problem through a houseplant website.

A person said that if the cactus is experiencing cold temperature, they start to rot. Also water penetrating an open wound on the plant can cause rotting.

I put the fishbone cactus on a windowsill during the winter with the window open. I think that’s probably why it’s experiencing rotting. So my plant is stressed from the cold.

To save the rotten cactus, I cut all the rotten stems and took the plant out form the old soil and repot it with new soil.

It was growing one-sided so I also changed the positions to look even.