Salvia is sleepy or bored or something

[Hedon]

Hey folks what's happening

My Salvia doesn't seem very happy. Her leaves seem kind of thin and tissue papery. She's a bit lighter in color and her leaves are droopy. It seems worse right after I water her. It's funny because I let her soil dry out pretty well before I water her. I have a humidifier on too. I know the room has good humidity. I suppose I could give her a shot of earth juice.  I did that with the mother plant early this fall though and it just about killed her. I leached her soil at least five times and eventually ended up repotting her. Only now is she starting to make some healthy growth.

I will say one thing that I think is helping my plants tough out winter indoors is soluable silicon. I thought it might be a hype at first but I really do feel that it's helping them resist stress quite well. I use about 3 ml per liter of water with a few drops of miricle grow (I know I shouldn't but they love it) and apply it as a foliar feed every day. I guess I could be misting too much but my tomatos really dig it. I try and make them all happy but they come from different niches, it's hard to please them all.

Anyways I guess I should go or I could go on all day.

Peace

Hedon

[Anonymous]

I'd answer, if I could.  Every time I think I have it figured out, I have a plant go to hell on me-  I can't quite find the right combination of care and neglect to make this plant glow- but I'm still trying.

-tb

[Bongo]

I have discovered for me personally there is one secret to it.
That is to use a small pot, and water throughly then wait till the plant starts to wilt, feel the weight of the pot and remember it so you can water it just before it starts to wilt.
Also, hold off repotting untill the thing crawls out of its current pot.
I wait till the root ball is extreemly thick then I will repot one in a 6 inch pot to an 8 inch pot. After that you can plant it in any size container and it is happy. //http://www.spiritplants.org/phpbb/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-14

[strider]

Bongo , this is something I have just started to experiment with . Kinda was thinking about how some plants need to be root bound before they flower... Maybe ??

 

[Bongo]

Yo, Strider.
Not sure about flowering requirements there.
Toostoned probably knows much more about that situation.
But, I have previously had lots of problems trying to repot plants into larger pots than their life support system can handle.
This is strange because I am sure most people are like me and read on the web that you should pot your Salvia Divinorum in the largest pot you have space for. This is in my experience utter rubbish and will kill more plants than it saves. Also the general consensus that repotting your plant sets it back in terms of growth is also a fallacy. True it may set it back if the pot is too big but, if you start with a 6 inch pot and make sure the roots come out of the bottom before moving it an 8 inch pot and let it seriously outgrow that pot, you will have no problems potting it into a much larger pot from that stage.