A significant update! Got up early this morning, so even after plenty of lazy time, I had a lot left on my hands to get a little work done. If you've seen the '
Living Death Bonchi,' you know where I got the idea for this.
My wife relented on letting me use the little tomb decoration I bought specifically for this, so hooray! This first one is really an experiment, so I'm starting it in a small... planter? Pot? Thing? What do you call these, anyway?
Regardless, I stuck that in some soil. I figure it should have more than enough room for the roots to grow down around it like this; I don't want them to stray too far anyway.
I washed off one of my hawk's claw kids for this. Here it is coming out of the coir.
It cleaned up reasonably well, though the roots weren't nearly as interested in working with me as I'd hoped. Oh well. It might still work out; I think the placement should be decent.
After that I packed it in with soil and wrapped it. Always practice safe bonchi.
So that's done. Saturated it pretty well, and from now on it'll get bottom watered only to encourage the roots. In probably a month or two, if it's still doing well, I'll think about starting to pull down the soil.
After that I pulled a few things out of the Kratky bottles they were in. The Zapotec jalapeno has officially been retired; it just did not want to grow, and the sponge it was in wasn't going to transplant happily into a reasonably-sized container. RIP.
The caribe, though, looks pretty good and might be OK in its new home. Its sponge is poking up comically since it was just a bit too tall to fit in there comfortably; we'll see if those things inhibit growth or whether this will actually work. The giant white habanero next to it... not... exactly... giant. Turns out it barely got past the radicle stage, but it doesn't seem to be dead, so I'll give it some time in coir and see if it improves. Now that I'm looking at the picture, I can't even find it. It's there, though, I promise.
And the current state of the tent. Gave the plants up top some breathing room now that the entire bottom is open for business.
Seems they play for reals in the LOTRS.
