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If you have google wave and want to participate in this wave, send a request to info@mysalvia.net .

It took some time for me to get to it, but I finally found some time to make a more creative design for the site as opposed to the picture of the tubed cutting that was there before. The Salvia plant used for the design, has been modeled usingBlender. The textures have been created using the Gimp and I used pictures of leafs I took from my own plants as a reference. I love the idea of sharing and Open Source, both blender and the Gimp are Open Source applications.

I have some other ideas to make it visually more attractive so stay tuned.

With two valid excuses, becoming a dad again two days after last post and getting married a few days ago, I want to apologize for the long overdue update to this Salvia Divinorum growing blog. The plants are doing wonderful and I’ve made some picture to show it and give some detailed information.

Remember this beauty from last blog entry, this was a Salvia cutting that just decided to drop of it’s ‘mother’  by having it’s connection (stem) with her, rot away.

Salvia divinorum rootless cutting

Here’s a picture of today, about seven weeks after the previous picture, she is developing very well!

Salvia Divinorum cutting nicely developing into a mature Salvia Divinorum plant

Three weeks ago I also decided to take some cuttings from various plants that had abundant new growth and branches. I took a total of six Salvia cuttings from these plants and put them directly into small plastic pots which I filled with normal potting soil prior. I made sure the stems of the cuttings had no leafs for the bottom two inches and I made holes in the soil before gently putting the stems in.

Here’s a picture of those cuttings (and two motherplants in the background).

Six Salvia Divinorum cuttings

11 day old Salvia Divinorum cutting

Remember this plant from about three months ago:

Having taken some cuttings from her three weeks ago, I gave her a new big pot and decided to put her on the shelf at my Office window and see if she would be ok. After a week she seems to have acclimatized very nicely and is doing well. Here are some new pictures:

Healthy Salvia Divinorum plant

Another one:

Healthy Salvia Divinorum plant sideshot

Very soon I am going to experiment with different techniques to propagate Salvia Divinorum in the most efficient matter. I may even put some cuttings up for sale here for people interested.

The many-branched plant developed something that looked like stemrot and I was already making peace with loosing this plant. About six months ago, I lost a Salvia plant that had been with me for over two years,  due to stemrot. Once it started (150cm tall plant with leafes up to 40cm!!), it turned out impossible to stop.

Back to the now… I decided to try to remove the plant with the stemrot, remove the rotted stem from the main plant and pray for her survival. After removing all the stemrot, I was left with the many-branched plant (which looked and still looks amazingly healthy four days after removing the rot), and a small cluster of leafes without a stem. On impulse, I decided not to throw away this cluster but to put her in a cup with wet soil.

It’s been three days since this operation and I just took a picture of the cluster which seemd to die the first few hours after removing the stem, but now seems to be healthy and not suffering from the lack of stem and roots. She may even grow new roots and grow into a fully developed plant.

There’s nothing under ground, the entire plant is above ground sitting in a high humidity environment (a closed terrarium with some saving bulbs for lighting).

The plants are looking good but I couldn’t help noticing the leafes where becoming a little too lightish green. I suspected it’s time to add some nutrients to their water and so I did.

I still have some startup liquid organic plantfood aimed at Cannabis plants. Since all my room plants seem to thrive on cannabis ferts, I decided to go ahead and give it to my Salvia plants as well. I dissolved 3ML of it in a liter of water (about 1/2 of what the label suggested, better safe then sorry), mixed it well and watered the two fastest growing plants. One of them is showed in the picture attached to this post.

Btw these last pictures have been taken with my new G1 phone. I still have to get used to it and I may switch back to the Minolta soon

It’s been some time. From six plants, we went to four. One of the plants that was cut in two, did not survive. It developed stemrot and could not be saved.

The other plants are looking very healthy. Here’s a pic of the many-branched one:

The last cutting I took, is doing quite nice as well. I am trying to get her used to living room conditions to make her ready to go outside on the balcony for the summer months to get a boost.

Remember the fourth plant? I had a good look at her and noticed long non developed roots going down to the soil. Having a closer look, I discovered a number of fully developed roots, actually the top of the plant looked very viable to be on her own.

Notice the many small hairs, I decided to cut the plant just below those roots, remove all leafes except for the top four.

Here’s the result, plant number five:

Well what can I say, happy growth. Here’s some pictures

Taking out the plants for venting and noticed one of the plants had a broken branch. This branch was developing healthy growth because it was in a high humidy environment but it could not survive since it did not touch the ground to grow roots.

Ofcourse I took it out and put it in a seperate pot

Just some pics today (noticable: 8 main branches):