u/Expert_Fisherman_494

I'm new to growing anything this year but I heard citronella could be propagated pretty easily so I gave it a shot with the plant I bought from a local hardware store.

I did everything wrong. Didn't top up water often enough, never dumped it to keep it fresh, and in fact, when I discovered the roots they were hardly touching water at all. Somehow it still worked.

Pardon me while I go create a forest of citronella. Those mosquitoes don't stand a CHANCE this year.

It's grown so much and I think I may need a bigger pot if I want him to go crazy on my porch this summer.

This guy even inspired me to start my own from seed! Currently have 6 successful sprouts I hope to grow to maturity.

I decided to garden this year and stopped at a greenhouse last month where I found my first caladium. It was love at first sight. She even had a flower waiting to bloom. First picture is right after the repot, second is today. Then last week my sister and I went to Lowe's for a mother's Day gift and I stumbled upon my second caladium, third picture, and brought her home too. She's working on 3 new leaves as we speak. I'll be spending the rest of my life trying to collect them all like Pokemon. They are my favorites out of all the plants I've collected thus far.

Cross your fingers it tastes good, I haven't tried it yet and it's been pretty warm here 🤞

Update: I ate a salad as soon as I got home from work today, the same day this romaine lettuce was harvested, and it was DELICIOUS!

No bitterness at all and I didn't even mind the softer darker green tops like I usually do when I eat store bought lettuce. Apparently my front porch steps are the perfect spot to grow romaine in a pot and I can't wait to grow many many more. I don't know how far into summer I can get them to grow without going bitter or bolting, but I'm about to find out because I think I'll just keep planting more until they do. Maybe at that point I'll just start growing them inside, because this salad was one of the best salads I've ever had!

I will not be doing the "cut and come again" method for this lettuce. I have other lettuce I might do that with but this one is specifically being grown to harvest all at once. He was planted February 14 but he was probably stunted a little in the seed cell before I transplanted him cause he ran out of room to grow.

I've heard lettuce bolts when days get into the 80s (F) but he's been doing great despite the fact that most days have been that hot for the last month or so. He gets lots of afternoon shade so maybe that's why. Im growing more indoors currently to keep the harvest going. I just don't know if I should go ahead and cut him or if he can go a few more days and hopefully get bigger? What would you do?

I've never owned a single plant before this year and I picked this guy up at Lowe's cause I love how they look.

I'm wondering if he's doing okay? He was more green when I bought him (3rd picture is immediately after purchase, 2nd is after a repot and getting him under a light, 1st pic is today)

Is it okay for him to be less green? Should I ease up on the light? (It's a super intense light I bought to grow veggie starts indoors so it should be equating to full sun conditions I think) He sits about 5-6 inches below it.

I did some research once I got home with him and immediately repotted because he's splitting and they definitely had him in wet, very organic, soil. I gently removed all the old dirt, discovered he has only one root system connecting both Lithops, made sure to mix my cactus and succulent soil with A LOT of perlite and then absolutely did NOT water him. The soil was not 100% dry as it was a new bag, but there's really not much of it in there to begin with and he's in terracotta so I hoped what tiny bit of dampness that was present would dry up quick. All the white on top of the soil is perlite there from my soil mix. I specifically didn't cover him with any top dressings so he wouldn't retain any moisture he doesn't need.

That was about 2 weeks ago. Since then he's been chilling under this light with no further interference from me.

Thank you in advance for the help.