tahir_phoenix
12th January 2009, 10:00 AM
Recently - back in October - ok quite a while ago - I was given a cutting from one of my elderly customers whose garden I regularly maintain. The plant is called the Fatsia Japonica - sometimes referred to as the Castor Oil Plant. The original mother plant she took the cutting from is well over 2 metres tall and a beautiful plant - quite exotic looking with its huge leaves and a perfect addition to any palm collectors (like me)!
Anyway I did what she told me to and planted it into a large pot of well drained compost and waited - but nothing happened. In fact the cutting started to droop and looked almost dead within a month. As I was too busy with work at the time i left it until mid November when I repotted it into a smaller pot and moved it indoors.
Within two weeks the only leaves left on the cutting turned black and dropped off, but the centre of the plant started to swell up :)
And now I have a couple of new leaves coming out so inshallah its well on the way to becoming a great addition to my palms and well worth getting cuttings or starting from seed!
http://www.letsgogardening.co.uk/PD/FatsiaJaponica.htm
The first two pics are not mine and off the web!
Anyway I did what she told me to and planted it into a large pot of well drained compost and waited - but nothing happened. In fact the cutting started to droop and looked almost dead within a month. As I was too busy with work at the time i left it until mid November when I repotted it into a smaller pot and moved it indoors.
Within two weeks the only leaves left on the cutting turned black and dropped off, but the centre of the plant started to swell up :)
And now I have a couple of new leaves coming out so inshallah its well on the way to becoming a great addition to my palms and well worth getting cuttings or starting from seed!
http://www.letsgogardening.co.uk/PD/FatsiaJaponica.htm
The first two pics are not mine and off the web!