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So yesterday I told you guys how my lil plantlets kept coming out of the soil.Well today i checked on some of them and they were out of the soil again! AND THEY WERE DRY!!! and some of them had withered leaves so i changed them to a bigger container, and made sure they were in the soil snugly. I then made sure they were watered well. Do you think they have a chance of surviving? They still look mostly green. I hope so!

Thanks

Lucy

the soil alway's needs to be moist

If your plants are really stubborn and keep popping out of the soil, you can push a toothpick or bamboo skewer into the soil and diagonally across the top of the plant (not through the plant!) to hold it down - after about two weeks the leaves will have adjusted and will no longer want to push the plant up, then you can remove the sticks. Your plants should recover - I had a royal red that the birds pulled out and dropped on the hot cement outside, I guess it was there all afternoon and it didn't look too good when I found it. I put it in water to suck up some moisture overnight and repotted it the next day. I put the pot in a bucket with water about 3/4 of the way up the pot and put a sheet of glass over the top to increase humidity until it recovered. It survived, and divided this season.
Good luck

thanks for all the help!
i love my cute lil plantlets. i have 10 jaws hybrids 2 red piranhas and a vigorous. i cant wait till they get really big! but that will be a long time.