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Never had much luck with pings in soil. So I tried a different approach and it has paid off. Everyone show off your rocks! These guys stay on the front porch year round except when it gets below freezing.
Very neat. I just saw a similar rock on sale with a sickly looking plant on it at a local nursery. I thought about buying it, scraping all the old plant matter off and covering it with pings but I didn't have anyplace to put it. But yours looks great! It looks very natural and the pings have good color.
I dnt remember if u answered in a previous thread about how u got the pings to grow on/in the rock, so sorry if u already answered the question.. But im totally intrigued and find this something i may be able to do as a project with a few of my friends children who are really getting into unusual looking plants. Do u drill holes and stuff them with soil? Or do u do something else? Id really love to know thanks
This rock is volcanic and like pumice. The first one I bought is the one flowering and I used an old drill bit. Made a hole about 2 inches deep and 1 inch wide and filled it with your usual ping soil. The rest of them I used a screw-driver and just burrowed a few holes. I have a larger piece of the same rock that I'm saving for the future. I just cut it using a hack saw because I wanted a flat bottom so the pings wouldn't roll away. All the moisture is from the tray, I never watered on top. The moss just started growing from the media.
Time for a bigger Rock! I'm gonna split some and replant on the larger piece. This is the same pumice stone I cut the original from. I think I will plant some Drosera on the original and see what happens.
It has been awhile, but the plants seem fine. 3 of them are in dormancy. A couple are like succulents and the other is more like a cactus. I removed the pin holding one to the side of the rock, and it didn't fall off!
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