washingtonkurt
Seed
Hello!
3 months ago my wife and I welcomed a granddaughter and I decided on a little experiment for her, so I went to the nursery and bought 4 pots of Schefflera arboricola “Gold Capella” with the intent of creating an over the rock planting for her to have once she turns ito a teenager.
I did not defoliate or cut the tops, I just reduced the amount of leaves – especially the large ones –and trimmed the roots, but not too much. I arranged the plants over a rock and secured everything with copper wire. Then I “buried” the result it in a fitting terracotta pot with the rock fully below the soil level.
It has been about a couple to three weeks now and after the initial shock it seems that one of the 4 plants is not going to make it. Here I am turning to you guys for suggestions and advice:
1) Should I just let this one plant die and wither?
2) Should I cut it off at soil level?
3) Should I cut it off higher up, bend the leftover stem / stalk downwards and hope that this is visually turning into some sort of a leftover root, kind of like deadwood on pines?
4) Should I try to carefully wriggle / pull it out? It is wired and this would probably be a real pain and not good for the other plants and I REALLY would like to avoid this.
I am looking forward to hearing from everybody!
Best regards
Kurt
3 months ago my wife and I welcomed a granddaughter and I decided on a little experiment for her, so I went to the nursery and bought 4 pots of Schefflera arboricola “Gold Capella” with the intent of creating an over the rock planting for her to have once she turns ito a teenager.
I did not defoliate or cut the tops, I just reduced the amount of leaves – especially the large ones –and trimmed the roots, but not too much. I arranged the plants over a rock and secured everything with copper wire. Then I “buried” the result it in a fitting terracotta pot with the rock fully below the soil level.
It has been about a couple to three weeks now and after the initial shock it seems that one of the 4 plants is not going to make it. Here I am turning to you guys for suggestions and advice:
1) Should I just let this one plant die and wither?
2) Should I cut it off at soil level?
3) Should I cut it off higher up, bend the leftover stem / stalk downwards and hope that this is visually turning into some sort of a leftover root, kind of like deadwood on pines?
4) Should I try to carefully wriggle / pull it out? It is wired and this would probably be a real pain and not good for the other plants and I REALLY would like to avoid this.
I am looking forward to hearing from everybody!
Best regards
Kurt
