TITLE: Update on plant growth
DATE: 2018-09-24
AUTHOR: John L. Godlee
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While I was away over the summer I had to send my plants away to be 
looked after by friends. Now I'm back in a new house and I'm pretty 
impressed by how much they've grown, so I decided to try and take 
some nice photos.

The Kalanchoe sp. has started growing little plantulitas with roots 
which keep dropping off, they're very cute.

  ![Kalanchoe 
stem](https://johngodlee.xyz/img_full/plants_update/kalanchoe_1.jpg)

  
![Plantlet](https://johngodlee.xyz/img_full/plants_update/kalanchoe_
2.jpg)

y spider plant was savaged slightly by a cat, but they're basically 
immortal. The one I have now is a 4th generation cutting from the 
original spider plant I collected from the Darwin Library at the 
King's Buildings about 6 years ago.

  ![Spider 
plant](https://johngodlee.xyz/img_full/plants_update/spider.jpg)

y bromeliad is also doing well. It's become more chunky and has 
started to develop that nice pale flakey coating on the leaves. 
It's also a descendant of a previous plant, the mother now lives at 
my parents' house and is still producing lots of babies 
periodically.

  
![Bromeliad](https://johngodlee.xyz/img_full/plants_update/bromeliad
.jpg)

Finally, my little succulent, which I propagated from a leaf has 
been growing, but very slowly. It seems to have a problem where it 
gets little white spots on the leaf surface.

  
![Succulent](https://johngodlee.xyz/img_full/plants_update/succulent
.jpg)