Happy Birthday Seedlings!!!

Well, almost. I'm about 10 days early. But alas, I'm home, so I took some photos.

I repotted all the babies. 6 are in smaller pots and the other 11 are in larger pots. The 6 smaller ones are the ones that have always grown a bit slower. It seems like they're growing VERY slowly. Probably not enough sun nor heat.

I just moved so there are some pros and cons.

First the cons....all my trees won't really see any sunlight. My backyard looks like a forest (not really, just some very very tall trees) and it blocks the sun. So if they see sun, it's for about 30 mins in the late afternoon. Boo! At my last apartment, they had some awesome direct sunlight. I'm afraid of what will happen to them. The 6 small ones are outside, but under my lamp, so they're getting some "sun".

The pros? Well, my apartment is overall warmer. So fingers crossed that I won't have to keep them on a heating mat, because now that they're in their new pots, I don't have enough space. They'll probably go dormant anyways, but I'm hoping not. At least they're outside, in the heat. It's been dang hot this summer. Mostly in the mid-80's all the way up to 100.

And sadly, they'll probably have to come in soon. It's already dropping down to the mid-50's overnight.

Here's some pictures of all of them (even the adult plant) in their new pots.

10 Months: Outdoors

As of July 11, I moved them outside. The weather is predicting to be in the 80's for the rest of the month so I think they'll do great. I really need to transplant them into larger containers, but since I'm moving in early August, I don't want to do it right now.

I thought I found a spot that doesn't get direct sunlight, as I read you're supposed to introduce them to it slowly otherwise they can burn, but I can't seem to find a spot that doesn't get direct sunlight at some point in the day. Ugh.

Also, they don't look so good. They haven't since I haven't been able to put the lid on anymore. I keep watering them, but I wonder if I'm over doing it. I also fertilized them, and it looks like I overdid that. I really need to just leave them alone.

Here they are outside. They look kind of sad.

On the upside, because of this hot weather (that I hate btw), my adult Aztec Gold has been blooming like crazy now that the weather is stable. It tried to bloom in June, but it kept getting too cold.

I'm hoping my babies will survive!!! I've worked so hard to keep them happy and healthy, I'd hate to see them die now.

Catching Up: 10 Weeks to 7 Months

Since I failed to blog the journey, so sad, I'm catching up with photos I've had.

This is from December 15, 2013. Approximately 3 months old.

These photos shows them at about 4 months old and the tallest is about 4.5". As you can see, some are going strong and others are barely making it. Slow, but still growing.

This is from March 27, 2014 - approximately 6 months old. As you can see, I had to start taking some out of the container, they were getting too tall.

April 19 - 7 months old. Going strong and getting big!!