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hartogken10

Creepy roots

9 years ago

Forgot to ask this earlier. On the leaves that I am starting the majority have roots that grow out from the surface and up the side of the pot. Any idea what causes this? They are in a covered tray Medium is primarily peat with perlite with a little compost and lime added I didn't have dolomitic limestone to add to the mix so we added calcium carbonate. Didn't test for ph some of the leaves also have baby plants growing from the leaf itself with roots hanging down to the soil (think banyan tree). I would suspect too high of humidity but I'm still learnng (a lot). Thanks! Ken

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  • 9 years ago

    Well well it sounds interesting at the least! If worse comes to worst we can always make sauerkraut!

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