Polka Dot Plant

Home Depot

January 2022

23: Has been growing well without issue at lot. Easy maintenance. Soil is covered in pebbles.

February

3: Deep watering with half outdoor dose all purpose fertilizer. Went to emergency care mode today. Plants that were find yesterday, today looks wilted. Soil was dry, probably that was the main problem. But also noticed is bright green color in the tip of a leave. Sign of too much sun? It has been put closer to the window more than usual recently.
4: Plants are leggy, did pinching, only the top sets.
x: Pinching some more.
12: Pinching come more to 6 cm height. Heart breaking because removing growing buds from previous pinching. But they were really leggy still. Hopefullt not too much shock and kill the plants.
13: Moved back to south window to allow more sunlight since it was just pruned so heavily.
18: newly emerging leaves from the pruning site are visible.

March

21: Flower buds appearing! Unfortunately they need to be removed. Not only they inhibit the leaves growth, and we are in the middle of pruning for bushier plant process, but also according to the references, the plant will go to dormant stage or even died out after flowering is finished.
25: Watered thoroughly in preparation of 10 days holiday.

April

3: Back from holiday, looking thriving. 2 pruple flowers in bloom. Removed. Tops pinched.
21: After a month or so actively removing the flowers, finally the plant gave up trying to grow flower. Young leave buds start poking out everywhere.

May

June

Early: Major pruning of scraggly branch. They are propagated in water.
7: From all cuttings, 3 best are chosen. 1 have 1 mm root knubs.
20: All 3 cuttings have about 5 cm roots. Thriving and strongly hold the soil into a ball. The mother plants are moved into a bigger container and the 3 babies are planted there too.

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