Namaste to all garden and nature lovers!
When I brought it home about a year ago, I did not know that the name of this plant is so interesting. Just now while writing a post on this, I asked Google Lens, and I came to know that it is known as Bolivian Jew and Turtle vine. The name Bolivian Jew makes sense because it is a native South American plant, but I am not able to connect it with the name Turtle vine, but whatever:
When I brought it home about a year ago, it was a small vine which I planted in a plastic container lying unused. Then it grew and covered the entire container, and now, for some time, when the plastic container started drying and falling apart, I thought, Why not transplant it in a bigger and more sustainable pot?
Although the condition of this plastic container was very bad and it was breaking even if you held it with a little force, but since this vine had grown densely and had completely gripped the soil of the container, it was very easy to take it out of the container, which you can understand by looking at the rectangular shape of the plant that came out.
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Now, to plant it again, I took a round, low-height, wide-mouth terracotta pot from my garden. It was peak monsoon time when it rained every other day, so the soil was quite moist, but this work had to be done, so we spread this rectangular shaped vine jungle a bit and set it in that big round terracotta pot, leaving some extra vines planted in a small plastic pot. It was 29th July!
The two pictures below are from 19th August, in which the first picture is of a small black plastic pot whose vine has beautifully covered the pot in a perfect round shape, and the picture below it is of a big terracotta pot and in that too the vine has covered the entire pot by filling the empty space. Although this vine looks a little messy in this big pot but this is just the beginning.
The photo below is of an afternoon, 35 days after transplanting, when, immediately after the rain, bright sunshine came out, and the raindrops falling on the leaves of this vine started shining
And this is the final result after 45 days of transplanting the Bolivian jew or Turtle vine, whatever you call it. It has spread out completely in both the pots and has grown densely, and I may not have shown its beauty well in the pictures, as I am still a struggling photographer but it looks like a densely grown, perfect curly hairstyle.
Even after seeing it, I got an idea that why not grow it in a head-shaped pot. You must have seen those pots in the market which are like a human head, where on top, in the place of hair, when this vine grows in such a dense form, it will look like a very beautiful curly hairstyle and will also be a good option for gifting purposes.🎁
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