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| I went to the post office today to find out how priority mail works so I can mail out some leaves. I and the mail lady were talking about how her Grandmother started leaves. She put them in a empty egg shell that still had the skin on the inside with a little dirt and started them that way She also said that her Grandmother would only take leaves from a nonblooming plant. anyone else ever here about these methods ? |
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| 1. It will work. Probably will stink a bit. 2. The leaves from a non-blooming plant will root. The leaves from a blooming plant will root too. I would say that this lady developed some methods that worked for her - she probably used dirt from the garden and didn't have access to modern fertilizers with microlelements - so her approach was good in her conditions and didn't do any harm. With more intense methods - when we keep the plants under the lights, use wicks, soilless mix, constant fertilizing - they bloom all the time - so waiting for them to stop blooming and use egg shells for the fertilizer that comes from the residual organic matter on the insides of the shells seems a bit too much. I. |
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