DukeBoxer
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Guys, I need some help. Today a friend of mine that just bought a lot to build a house was showing it to me and I found 3 small (2 w/ 2 leaves and 1 w/ 1 leaf) Cyp acaules. Here's the problem...He's clearing the lot tomorrow so I asked if I could take them out and find a better place for them. He said it was ok with him so I went and took them out. I dug down deep and I really don't think I broke any roots. They looked pretty healthy but one was stepped on I think, it has a few holes in one leaf and the other is half a leaf. I took back a good amount of the topsoil that was around the plants and also a lot of the pine needles that were on the ground, including top layer ans some of the decomposed ones. As I was coming home I was thinking about planting them in a gravel/perlite mix but then I started to think how people say that roots that grow into a certain soil or substrate will not like other soils or mixes. So I took a plastic pot, put pine needles in the bottom and a layer of the soil on top, then I laid the plants on top of the soil and put more of the soil around the plants and covered them to how they were before and then laid more needles on top.
So my question is, did I do the right thing or should I have put them in something else....OR should I have just left them where they were? It amazes me that these plants are listed as protected but there is never anyone that goes to these new house sites and identifies them and tries to rescue them!
Well any input is welcomed. And if you live near me and would like the plants and think you can take care of them better than I can, let me know, although I would like to keep one and put it in the woods in a spot that I think it will survive. By the way, I am in Guilford, CT
So my question is, did I do the right thing or should I have put them in something else....OR should I have just left them where they were? It amazes me that these plants are listed as protected but there is never anyone that goes to these new house sites and identifies them and tries to rescue them!
Well any input is welcomed. And if you live near me and would like the plants and think you can take care of them better than I can, let me know, although I would like to keep one and put it in the woods in a spot that I think it will survive. By the way, I am in Guilford, CT