Well, my plants took a beating after a 60 mph wind broke my growth rack mini greenhouse. My greenhouse has four racks that stack on top of each other and a vinyl cover. I had it anchored to the ground with four stakes and some rope. This prevented it from sailing across the yard, but the wind caused it to break between second and third racks. So everything on the top two racks fell about 3 feet to the ground. As they fell they dump tons of water and dirt onto the plants beneath them. I had eight mature sarrs and a flowering sensitive plant on the top racks. On the bottom two racks i had a ping, three sundews, a purp, 11 Vfts and about 12 grab bag sarrs. Most of these were okay and were still sitting on the racks. However my three pots of vfts were somehow dumped and i was only able to find 6 of them. So my total loss right now is 5 vfts.
After the nasty looking storm passed i went out to fix up my plants. Most of the mature sarrs looked pretty good. Most had fallen out of their pots but the root ball and pitchers looked good. I think they're going to make it but i doubt they'll do much more growing this season. The sensitive plant has seen better days but i think it will pull through too. The vfts looked ok but i'm not sure they'll make it. Many are missing roots. I repotted everything the best i could, and then i sprayed them off with some ro water that had superthrive in it. I also soaked the soil down. Currently the plants are sitting in the barn. I hope our crazy cats leave them alone. Most of the plants don't have water trays since these blew throughout the yard. My dad helped me track down quite a few but i'm still missing some. I'll look for them in the morning. Does anyone have any suggestions about what i can do for my plants that fell? Thanks.
-buckeye
After the nasty looking storm passed i went out to fix up my plants. Most of the mature sarrs looked pretty good. Most had fallen out of their pots but the root ball and pitchers looked good. I think they're going to make it but i doubt they'll do much more growing this season. The sensitive plant has seen better days but i think it will pull through too. The vfts looked ok but i'm not sure they'll make it. Many are missing roots. I repotted everything the best i could, and then i sprayed them off with some ro water that had superthrive in it. I also soaked the soil down. Currently the plants are sitting in the barn. I hope our crazy cats leave them alone. Most of the plants don't have water trays since these blew throughout the yard. My dad helped me track down quite a few but i'm still missing some. I'll look for them in the morning. Does anyone have any suggestions about what i can do for my plants that fell? Thanks.
-buckeye