Omg this roth spike...I’m over the moon, just cannot believe I’m getting to see this, it will be the first P. rothschildianum I have ever beheld in person and it’s happening in my window!!!!! Many of you are probably bored with my bragging over this plant, collected in the 50s and tended by loving people in undiluted form ever since. This IS your father’s rothschildianum — your Heavenly Father’s, that is! (If you believe in that sort of thing lol). This morning it had grown I kid you not at least 3 inches in two days. I didn’t know they went this fast! Can’t resist sharing and there will probably be more to come, sorry and thank you in advance, I’m not as cool as some of you and I don’t care, THIS IS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!
The question I have is, should I be concerned that the stem seems to be arching downward? If this is what it would have done on the Bornean mountainside then FINE, I’ll let it be. I’ve never trained a spike in my life and would be reluctant to start with this succulent miracle. But maybe it will start to arch up? I have never witnessed a multifloral’s process and I just don’t know what to expect here. Note the cold, dismal weather outside my window... we are heading for 8” if snow tonight and tomorrow and temps down below 0F; you Celsius people all seem to live in places that just don’t experience such true extremes so let me put it this way: the air hurts your face.
The question I have is, should I be concerned that the stem seems to be arching downward? If this is what it would have done on the Bornean mountainside then FINE, I’ll let it be. I’ve never trained a spike in my life and would be reluctant to start with this succulent miracle. But maybe it will start to arch up? I have never witnessed a multifloral’s process and I just don’t know what to expect here. Note the cold, dismal weather outside my window... we are heading for 8” if snow tonight and tomorrow and temps down below 0F; you Celsius people all seem to live in places that just don’t experience such true extremes so let me put it this way: the air hurts your face.
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