Prayer Plant Progress

I thought maybe you'd like to see how the prayer plant cuttings I took in January were getting along.  It feels like it's been a very long winter, though the sky today is blue and there's that presence in the air, that feeling of life pushing back from the darker places where it sometimes hides; perhaps spring really is here at last, as I stupidly decided it already was five weeks ago, when it was not.  Patience is not an easy virtue to master.  Here, as in so many other places, we have a lot to learn from plants.

Here's a node from one of the January cuttings.  Those two pale yellow nobs you can see where the stems meet the knee are the beginnings of roots.  Patient as I said I wasn't, I already rooted a similar looking node in some soil in my bedroom last week.  I wondered if I should have waited longer for the roots to develop more but it occurred to me, stupid again, the roots want to be underground.  That's where they do their work.  So I planted it, and it seems to have been the right thing to do.  Already the leaves are lifting.  So I planted the node pictured above, too.  Now I have this:

Prayer plants leaves are beautiful and strange, like no other plant I've grown before.  I would like to fill my home with such things.  I took another cutting from the parent plant today, and jarred it up with some others.  My prayer plant factory.  Laboratory.  Nursery.

This is the parent:

These are the children:

Also pictured here, some of my potatoes, chitting away in the rising sun.  Plants, edible and inedible.  Yes.



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