Beezy813
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I've always had an interest in growing my own flowers. I'm not too sure where to even get started (legitimately). I took a couple seeds I found along the way and popped them into a bottle cap filled with dirt and made them sprout. Once they got to the point where they started leaning over, I went out and bought a small plant pot and replanted them. The leaves withered, but didn't die. I assume that was from the shock of being moved because they went back to being perky after about 3-4 days. Now while they were in the cap and the small pot, I just had it in the window where my kitchen sink is and it got sun light during the day, as much as the day offered and other than the kitchen light coming on and off occasionally, hats pretty much it. There was wind coming in, blowing the little plants and I noticed the stem was getting a little stronger. I had 3 plants total, I noticed two of them had little hairs starting to grow and 1 had little pollen sacks on it.
(After researching I found that it was a male plant and if kept too close to the others it would pollinate them and the buds that were growing would then develop seeds and I don't want that. please correct me if I'm wrong).
The plants eventually got too tall for my kitchen window, like 6 inches or so, and almost too big for the small pot they were in, so I got another pot and replanted them all (not knowing at the time about the plant differences (male/female) I put them in my back yard and just let them be. My dogs were rough housing back there and one of them knocked the pot over and stepped on the male plant it was in half so I tried to salvage it but after finding out about the plant differences I cut my losses and trashed it. The other two were strong as ever from the breeze and sun light but then I noticed that they stopped growing tall and just started flowering. So now the plants are about a foot tall with small buds on them. They look nice and smell good but I know they aren't growing like they should. I'll post a couple pics of how they look. I guess my question is:
1. Should I just leave them be for now? Or is there a way I can get it to grow taller in the stage it's in now?
I don't have any fancy lighting or anything, only sunlight in the back yard. Can I get good results this way?
I DO plan on doing things the right way, I kind of just winged this as they grew..
Cheers!
(After researching I found that it was a male plant and if kept too close to the others it would pollinate them and the buds that were growing would then develop seeds and I don't want that. please correct me if I'm wrong).
The plants eventually got too tall for my kitchen window, like 6 inches or so, and almost too big for the small pot they were in, so I got another pot and replanted them all (not knowing at the time about the plant differences (male/female) I put them in my back yard and just let them be. My dogs were rough housing back there and one of them knocked the pot over and stepped on the male plant it was in half so I tried to salvage it but after finding out about the plant differences I cut my losses and trashed it. The other two were strong as ever from the breeze and sun light but then I noticed that they stopped growing tall and just started flowering. So now the plants are about a foot tall with small buds on them. They look nice and smell good but I know they aren't growing like they should. I'll post a couple pics of how they look. I guess my question is:
1. Should I just leave them be for now? Or is there a way I can get it to grow taller in the stage it's in now?
I don't have any fancy lighting or anything, only sunlight in the back yard. Can I get good results this way?
I DO plan on doing things the right way, I kind of just winged this as they grew..
Cheers!
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