...An Indoor Gardener Finds Relatively Inexpensive Curly-Leafed Starter Plants on the Internet.
Saturday night (November 4th), I ordered a lot of three Bonnie (curly) spider plant pups/starters off of eBay (from a seller that had 100% positive feedback and over 1200 eBay interactions -- I was a bit impressed). Monday evening (November 6th), I received my package of starters, inside which were not the three Bonnies I'd ordered.
The eBay seller had sent seven! Over double!
I'd briefly wondered if I'd accidentally ordered two lots from him, double-checked, and found that it wasn't so. I spent ten dollars, and thought that was a fine price for the plants and then the first-class shipping (given the prices I'd seen on other Bonnies). On another, somewhat related note, the plants also arrived days earlier than expected. I'd followed the mailing progress, since that's half the fun of having a tracking number, and the estimate started at "November 10th," fell to "November 8th," and then was recieved on November 6th. God bless the US postal service for the swift FL-to-NY mailing!
I haven't done much more then put the starters in water to grow some root before planting, but I'm more than thrilled to have the spideys to play with, this November. I'm equally thrilled to have oodles of other variegations of spiderplant pups around me!
I got around to planting an unvariegated spiderplant pup, also on the 6th. I had previously planted one, but planted him a bit too deep and watched sadly as he faded away to nothing, too late for me to fix my mistake (which ultimately lead to all the leaves getting water-damaged below the soil line). I've learned from that mistake. This pup, whom I have named Cyrano, has been planted at what I hope is a proper depth. Given the success I've had with my vittatum starters and my never-ending supply of variegatum pups, I feel relatively certain that Cyrano will do well. But, if not, I have around half a dozen other unvariegated pups developing some rootage in water, and another half-dozen(ish) pups almost ready to come off the "father" plant (his name is Steven, he cost me thirteen dollars -- which is three dollars more than I usually allot my weekly plant spending).
If I actually went around and counted my spiderplants, I think I'd come up with a number ballparked around... 50 in dirt, 20 or so in water, right now. Around 10 adults and 40 juveniles.
Signing Off . . . |
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