Comment on My Pink Dragon has gotten so big!
cybervseas@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Nice. What’s your care regimen like? Colors look great, especially against that tomato-colored wall.
Comment on My Pink Dragon has gotten so big!
cybervseas@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Nice. What’s your care regimen like? Colors look great, especially against that tomato-colored wall.
Polkira@piefed.ca 1 week ago
Lol the wall is actually more dusky in person (like a muddy rust), my camera makes it look bright orange so I look like a crazy person.
Care regime lately has just been to water when dry (so like every 7-14 days) and fertilize rarely (mostly because I forget). It actually doesn't live where it is in the picture but hangs out right in my east facing sliding door so it gets lots of morning light. I keep it and most of my plants in a chunky mix (1 part orchid bark, 1 part perlite, 1 part potting soil), otherwise they take forever to dry out with the humidity here.
It probably would be a lot bigger if I hadn't swapped everything to semi hydro last year to try and be rid of fungus gnats (a strategy which actually did work, but I'm a laxy plant parent so they didn't really thrive in that). It lived in water for quite a while re-rooting so it was just a sad and dying leaf a couple months ago. It's made a huge comeback this summer, with another leaf on the way.