Avocadocumentary--Part 8
Dec. 30th, 2006 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ruA couple of days ago, I had an Avobaby-related nightmare--I dreamt that somebody had cut off all of Avobaby's leaves, leaving nothing but a bare stick in a pot. It was very sad, and I'm glad it was only a dream. No beheading of Avobaby allowed! ;_;
Anyway, things have been pretty quiet on the Avobaby front, so only one picture this time around. So instead, I took a snapshot of my other plant project, whom I have affectionately named Potatobob. Also, cookies!
Avobaby hasn't been doing much vertical or horizontal growing, but I have noticed that that apical bud is starting to look pretty juicy, so I think a growth spurt is soon upon us. Yay! You can't see it too well in this picture, but when I look really close at it, I can see the beginnings of what I think are some new leaves. Stay tuned for more on this budding development! (/badpun)
And now, I introduce Potatobob. Internets? This is Potatobob. Potatobob? Internets. I suspect you'll be seeing more of each other in the near future. I'm thinking what I may do is if nothing too much is going on with Avobaby, I'll do a Potatobob update. Potatobob is a leftover from my work in the systematics class, having been a former display both of a storage root and a member of the Solanaceae family. It was sprouting in that lovely way potatoes do when they are left alone too long at the end of the semester, so I decided to rescue it and take it home.
Before planting it, I went looking around the web to see what I could learn about growing potatoes from...potatoes. From what I could tell, potato plants have a tendency to get *huge*, and with limited space, I was beginning to despair that maybe I wouldn't be able to plant it. But then, salvation! I found a site that discussed the concept of turning a potato into a bonsai display, which would solve the hugemongous-plant problem. And thus Potatobob was born! It's been growing for a good couple of months now, and I think has just begun to really take off. The top part has expanded quite a bit, and it's been putting up a lot of underground shoots. According to the site, though, one of the things you're supposed to do is clip off shoots that are coming up from underneath, because they grow way too fast to control well. So, I've been doing a bit of shoot-maintenance, which makes me feel a little guilty. I take comfort, though, in that Potatobob seems to get a little burst of energy in growing the crown shoot when I clip them. So, we'll see how Potatobob does in the coming weeks. <3 <3 <3 It'll likely involve my adventures in the ancient art of making big plants little and not-killing-plants-through-pruning.
And finally, cookies! These were some of the products of Wednesday's cooking adventure. That cookie in the lower left hand corner is an example of the sushi cookies we made--fashioned to look like a california roll. <3 <3 <3
On a different, sadder note, I discovered today that my ornamental sweet potato has an awful, awful case of spider mites. I'm inclined to think that it may be terminal, because it's looking pretty bad, and treating it would be very difficult, particularly since there are plants on the windowsill (including Avobaby) over the treatment area--i.e., the sink, and I don't want them to catch them as well. It's currently sitting in the garage right now as I debate whether or not it would be worth it to undertake the challenge of treating it. The other thing that bothers me is that it had been sitting in a group of other plants, so I'm concerned that the others might have caught them. I've spread the ones that were closest to it out, and I'm gonna have to watch them for several days to see if they develop signs of infestation as well. I should really pay more attention to that voice in the back of my head that looks at a plant and goes, "Hm. It may just be me, but that plant doesn't look right."
But in the meantime, *sadface*.
Anyway, things have been pretty quiet on the Avobaby front, so only one picture this time around. So instead, I took a snapshot of my other plant project, whom I have affectionately named Potatobob. Also, cookies!
Avobaby hasn't been doing much vertical or horizontal growing, but I have noticed that that apical bud is starting to look pretty juicy, so I think a growth spurt is soon upon us. Yay! You can't see it too well in this picture, but when I look really close at it, I can see the beginnings of what I think are some new leaves. Stay tuned for more on this budding development! (/badpun)
And now, I introduce Potatobob. Internets? This is Potatobob. Potatobob? Internets. I suspect you'll be seeing more of each other in the near future. I'm thinking what I may do is if nothing too much is going on with Avobaby, I'll do a Potatobob update. Potatobob is a leftover from my work in the systematics class, having been a former display both of a storage root and a member of the Solanaceae family. It was sprouting in that lovely way potatoes do when they are left alone too long at the end of the semester, so I decided to rescue it and take it home.
Before planting it, I went looking around the web to see what I could learn about growing potatoes from...potatoes. From what I could tell, potato plants have a tendency to get *huge*, and with limited space, I was beginning to despair that maybe I wouldn't be able to plant it. But then, salvation! I found a site that discussed the concept of turning a potato into a bonsai display, which would solve the hugemongous-plant problem. And thus Potatobob was born! It's been growing for a good couple of months now, and I think has just begun to really take off. The top part has expanded quite a bit, and it's been putting up a lot of underground shoots. According to the site, though, one of the things you're supposed to do is clip off shoots that are coming up from underneath, because they grow way too fast to control well. So, I've been doing a bit of shoot-maintenance, which makes me feel a little guilty. I take comfort, though, in that Potatobob seems to get a little burst of energy in growing the crown shoot when I clip them. So, we'll see how Potatobob does in the coming weeks. <3 <3 <3 It'll likely involve my adventures in the ancient art of making big plants little and not-killing-plants-through-pruning.
And finally, cookies! These were some of the products of Wednesday's cooking adventure. That cookie in the lower left hand corner is an example of the sushi cookies we made--fashioned to look like a california roll. <3 <3 <3
On a different, sadder note, I discovered today that my ornamental sweet potato has an awful, awful case of spider mites. I'm inclined to think that it may be terminal, because it's looking pretty bad, and treating it would be very difficult, particularly since there are plants on the windowsill (including Avobaby) over the treatment area--i.e., the sink, and I don't want them to catch them as well. It's currently sitting in the garage right now as I debate whether or not it would be worth it to undertake the challenge of treating it. The other thing that bothers me is that it had been sitting in a group of other plants, so I'm concerned that the others might have caught them. I've spread the ones that were closest to it out, and I'm gonna have to watch them for several days to see if they develop signs of infestation as well. I should really pay more attention to that voice in the back of my head that looks at a plant and goes, "Hm. It may just be me, but that plant doesn't look right."
But in the meantime, *sadface*.