purelyscientific
Rising Star
Day 1
6/1/13
I received 2 psychotria alba leaves in the mail this morning. They were packaged well. They had no signs of damage other than a slight browning of the tip on one of them. The other one was flawless. The vendor wrapped them in a moist thin paper towel of sorts. So far I am satisfied with my purchase.
After looking at ringworms leaf cutting tek and asking a couple questions I decided to use a mix of sand and cactus soil, as per his instructions.
I mixed coarse western sand with cactus/succulent soil by eye. I did not use any ratios. I would have prefered to use pine bark based soil but I didn't have any on hand.
Ring told me to 'put in a good bit' of sand so that's what I did. If I had to guess, I would say I made a ratio of 5-1 soil to sand. I then layered a square bucket with 1-2 inches of the substrate and thoroughly watered it. It held the water and did not drain well despite having drilled 4 holes in the bottom prior to layering. I should have added more sand. It does not matter much, all that means is that I will have to water it less than I would have if I added more sand.
I then put in a very thin layer of my soil/sand mix- just enough to soak up the water and laid my leaves in bottom side down. I covered both of them up to their 'necks'(leaving about an inch of the tip exposed) with about a half inch to an inch of my soil mix.
I was using a mini seed greenhouse to start my other seeds for my garden. Unfortunately there is no top to my bucket. So since I am no longer using the top on the greenhouse because it started to get moldy due to excess humidity, I decided to cut it to fit the top of my bucket. This worked quite well actually and I am happy with how everything is set up.
6/1/13
I received 2 psychotria alba leaves in the mail this morning. They were packaged well. They had no signs of damage other than a slight browning of the tip on one of them. The other one was flawless. The vendor wrapped them in a moist thin paper towel of sorts. So far I am satisfied with my purchase.
After looking at ringworms leaf cutting tek and asking a couple questions I decided to use a mix of sand and cactus soil, as per his instructions.
I mixed coarse western sand with cactus/succulent soil by eye. I did not use any ratios. I would have prefered to use pine bark based soil but I didn't have any on hand.
Ring told me to 'put in a good bit' of sand so that's what I did. If I had to guess, I would say I made a ratio of 5-1 soil to sand. I then layered a square bucket with 1-2 inches of the substrate and thoroughly watered it. It held the water and did not drain well despite having drilled 4 holes in the bottom prior to layering. I should have added more sand. It does not matter much, all that means is that I will have to water it less than I would have if I added more sand.
I then put in a very thin layer of my soil/sand mix- just enough to soak up the water and laid my leaves in bottom side down. I covered both of them up to their 'necks'(leaving about an inch of the tip exposed) with about a half inch to an inch of my soil mix.
I was using a mini seed greenhouse to start my other seeds for my garden. Unfortunately there is no top to my bucket. So since I am no longer using the top on the greenhouse because it started to get moldy due to excess humidity, I decided to cut it to fit the top of my bucket. This worked quite well actually and I am happy with how everything is set up.
