I’m curious & never heard of this - I can always google (oh wait, that sort of doesn’t work well anymore) but - why did you try this, if you wouldn’t mind telling a bit more about it?
Depends on where you are putting these, and where the light source is. If they are going to be alongside a south facing window or you plan to use grow lights, you could get some higher light plants like succulents, and herbs but that also is a pretty deep pot and succulent and cacti don’t have large root wads, so they could get overwatered easily.
I would say for bright indirect light a combination of heart leaf philodendron varieties like brasil, neon, micans look great cascading down the wall, scindapsis (also called satin pothos but isn’t has a lovely texture). Also pothos others mentioned but I like the form of the others better. Not sure how high above the tv these would be but they would have to be pruned back or they would cover the tv, also up higher on the wall generally you have less light unless you have skylights or floor to ceiling windows. Spider plants wouldn’t get super long but would drape over, you could also look at tradescantia varieties they can tolerate a little lower light.
You would buy these as plants not typically seeds. You can find pretty grown out plants at big box stores but even better check out your local nursery or plant shop.
Herbs are easy and useful in the kitchen. Thymes, Rosemary, maybe Lavender are pretty forgiving and easy to grow from seeds Oh and nasturtiums, super easy to grow, beautiful flowers which you can use in salads (the are a bit spicy like cress) and they give you tons of new seeds at the end of the season, which you can plant the following year. Other than that just have fun and try stuff.
In my experience, you can also just cut them and put the cut end in a vase with water. It will grow roots, but they don't like going back in the dirt after living in pure water. Just another option
I wanted to avoid water propping it because of the tough transition back to soil (and because it would be quite a long cutting, I was worried it might drop leaves). That's why I wanted to try air layering :)
My gardening is I just shove any interesting seeds I get into some soils and see what's up. So far I've grown so many apples (but not many get past sapling stage..), pomegranates, passionfruit, peppers (accidentally killed over winter because I planted end of autumn. Thought that would happen but still), tomatoes, avocados. Mostly germinated on my windowsill in the UK, other than avocados which are weird.
Other options are cacti. Just cut a piece off and plant it and it'll probably grow, that's been my experience. Some inside and some in a greenhouse. Some are very picky but most are easy to grow and care for. Plus they often have beautiful but short-lived flowers, which makes then even more special when they're in bloom (sometimes the flower literally lasts one night and you feel so lucky to see it)
How big does it get ? That looks a bit like a baby plant, which is a more difficult to ID.
Some plants are leggy like that, but sometimes it's a lack of light. Does it grows toward the window ?
They tend to grow upward but in corkscrews. Not necessarily toward light. Yeah this and the other three are what I was able to salvage from the original that was maybe almost a foot or 14 inches long! It crept right out of the pot and I had to support it on another plant pot.
I don't have an ID for it I'm afraid, but I think it might be partially how the plant grows, and partially too much water. See the other comment on the thread: get a different soil that dries faster, make sure to have holes at the bottom of the pot, water less.
Got it. Winter + forced air heat opens up the possibility of a whole home humidifier but since you can't go that route a evaporative humidifier or two is the way to go.
It's very hard to kill a golden pothos. Just cut it up and throw it in dirt, or throw it in a bowl of water for a week or a year, it really doesn't care. The plants don't die
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