![]() My trimmings have taken root and have put out extra shoots in the new pot so I got more than I expected. Well everything is growing like wildfire. The good thing is they grow so well I can experiment a lot and not have to worry too much about killing them. Can always give more light but I think newer bulbs with better spectrum might be all they need to be fuller indoors. I should replace the bulbs anyway so maybe that will make a difference. Between my lighting knowledge and your growing knowledge maybe we can get them massive and full without a drop of sunlight. Maybe we can collaborate some info and get an idea of how well they do without any sunlight. I will let you know how they do as it gets colder. I hope they will stay full and grow well through the winter but this rental gets so cold they may not do as well as I would want them to. ![]() Thanks for the advice, I think a deeper pot is definitely in order soon to let them have plenty of water and grow the way they want to. Would be a nice experiment to see how they do and if I can get them to get really close leaf sets.Įventually I hope to finally get a home of my own and let them colonize a section around a big oak tree or similar tree. I may try some in the hanging basket in the window to see how they do. That could explain why it was so hard for me to get them to grow well when I got them because it was cold. I hope not to have any at all but we will see when it starts getting colder. I have had them for a while now and not had any die off, yet. They do grow a lot different indoors for me than what I have heard about them outdoors. You might try putting yours outside for a while each day to see if that helps it's growth pattern too. So pictures of mine won't show a nice compact plant. They are both getting too much shade this year, one because the trees have grown so much in the last couple of years and the other because I moved a piece to an area where the shade was too dense. I have two outside, have been for roughly 5 years, they die back in winter but always show up again in spring. I have seen some that are a dense ground cover with barely a couple of inches between sets of leaves and some in hanging pots on porches that are a little fuller than yours and trailing down and not so dense. How close together the leaves appear on the stem depends on where you have it growing. Pinching back the stems should influence the plant to put out more lower growth and become bushier but that will take more than a few days to see results so don't give up on that process too soon. Most recommend planting it in a hanging basket and hanging in front of an east or south window.or out on a covered porch that faces east for a few hours everyday. I don't grow plants inside so I am not familiar with how an 80 watt grow light bulb compares to real sunlight but everything I have read about growing Wandering Jew indoors says it needs some sunlight every day. You might want to put the plant in a deeper pot tho just to cut back on how much watering you have to do since they like moist soil. The main two reasons plants get long and lanky are too much nitrogen and not enough sunlight.
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