How did the coffee plant pruning turn out? Exceedingly well!
This was the plant right after cutting the trunk:
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The coffee plant right after cutting the trunk. |
And this is the plant after one month:
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The plant almost exactly one month later. |
OK, so the camera and the light are both better in the second picture. But it's still fair to say cutting that trunk has done the plant a world of good. There's lots of new, dense growth and little to no leaf browning.
That last may be in part because I'm more restrictive with watering; a Reddit post suggested a common cause was overwatering. I now wait until it seems dried out, then way for one more day before I completely drench the pot. It certainly seems to work.
The cuttings didn't fare nearly as well:
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Yeah, that didn't work. |
No idea what went wrong. I still want a second plant so I may try again in spring. Will need to first look up a better way to do it — this time I just dipped the cuttings in growth hormone then pushed them into the soil. I also tried putting one in water first, but it never formed roots either. Anybody know how to take proper cuttings, let me know.
