Passiflora Incense Repotting Adventure

Around 10:00 AM, R and I went to Home Depot in her vehicle which, being pirates for the day, we dubbed the Rusty Barnacle. After spending enormous amounts of money (well, for grad students, anyway) at Home Depot, Costco, Trader Joe's, and some cafe whose name now eludes me, we eventually found our way back to my shady little housing complex. Thence the main action in our Repotting Adventure commenced.


Passiflora Incense: Repotting setup

We first thoroughly wet the soil of our Passiflora Incense starts in the 3-inch pots they came in. They were already rootbound, but we weren't too worried since most passiflora are hardy little buggers. Then we filled our 10-inch plastic planters with potting soil and some granulated fertilizer (15-30-15).


Passiflora Incense: R weaving twine around bamboo trellis

After making a depression in the potting soil and sticking in some additional granulated fertilizer in the hole, we plopped the roots of each Passiflora Incense plant in, then added more potting soil on and around the base of each plant.


Passiflora Incense: R finishing last twining job

Next, we stuck in bamboo trellises and deeply watered M's and my plant and misted each plants' leaves. We didn't water R's plant since R would drive home and then water the prisoner there.

Yar! Then came time for a test: the test of a skill all good pirates should have, the ability to work with rope; well, in this case it was wussy twine, but you get the picture. R carefully wove twine in a zig-zag pattern around the trellises, and though the salty tar needs to work on knotting, everything came out okay.

Here is a pic of M's plant. It currently reaches just below 5 twine X's down from the top.


Passiflora Incense: M's finished repotting job

R's plant reaches around 7 twine X's down from the top of the bamboo trellis.


Passiflora Incense - R's finished repotting job

My glorious passiflora reaches 4 twine X's down from the top of the bamboo trellis.


Passiflora Incense: My plant's finished repotting job

Now here are the 3 passies before they are cruelly separated, never to see each other again.


Passiflora Incense: The Three Amigos, happy as stoats in their new homes. From left to right, R's, M's, and my plant.

R helped me move the remaining prisoners to the sunny "deck" in front of my cabin. I later tied our rescued Tillandsia ? onto the side of my plant's trellis. Then R sailed off in the Rusty Barnacle. Hopefully R will update me on whether the captive survived the trip.

But my adventure did not end. No, it did not. I spent the next hour cutting a rough window screen for my suite's bathroom, as it appears someone in the housing complex, before I moved in, may have stolen the window screen to fit in their own room's window.


Passiflora Incense: My plant in its semi-permanent home in the sun with Tillandsia ? on the side.

I'd take a picture of my handiwork, but it looks awful. I wasted a lot of packing tape to stick the screen up on the outside wall of the bathroom, and it shows. One of my fellow pirates in the unit saw the work and laughed.

My intent is to shame the scurvy dogs who manage my building into doing the maintence work I requested more than a month ago, which includes installing a window screen in the bathroom window. The reason I consider the matter somewhat urgent is that I just killed 2 mosquitoes last night in the bathroom.