Kittycatinus Felinius Scratchplant

Well, Springtime inevitably is a busy time for planting seedlings. One of my seedlings is doing very well, Kittycatinus Felinius Scratchplant, these are notoriously hard to grow from seed and can take months to germinate. I’ve been cultivating one plant and it is almost ready to pot on, hopefully it isn’t too root bound.

Hope everyone else’s gardening adventures are coming along.

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And what big ears it has too :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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They’re not ripe yet.

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Loving the new plant……It’s growing well. Feeding the plant well :grinning_face:

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Rups-- What do you feed this plant to keep it growing?

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I tend to give it a good serving of blood and bone, as is good for any plant. As a concentrated fertiliser I use a gardener’s mix called Dreamies, they go down a treat. I’ve just repotted the Kittycatinus Felinius Scratchplant into a bigger pot, as you can see. This is to allow it to hardy up and be able to grow into a strong and healthy plant.

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@Rups , so that’s where cats and kittens come from. I wonder if you can that from any garden centre?

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She’s looking very happy in her new pot & eying up some mors dreamies I think :grinning_face:

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Generally, garden centres do not grow Kittycatinus Felinius Scratchplant for the simple reason that if they were, they would also need to stock Puppydoginus Caninius Sniffplant, and sometimes these two plants end up chasing each other around the nursery. Here is a Puppydoginus Caninius Sniffplant I planted, from seed, directly into the ground almost four years ago to this day, they tend to like muddy soil conditions and will grow well if planted there.

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Here is a picture of what happens if you overwater a Puppydoginus Caninius. They still thrive, but get a little limp around the edges.

Kitticatinus Felinius on the other hand will not thrive at all well with too much water, as you can see here depicted. Go easy on the water. This one is having trouble with growth. Being bogged down in liquid, it is quite “unhappy” (if one can attribute human feelings to a plant.)

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This is a common mistake many gardeners make but it is all a learning curve.

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@Rups , aw…gutted. Oh, I bet the drenches you when you wash the dog. Mine did many many years ago. Especially my mum. She always dreaded it as it always soaked her after a shampooing.

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@axnr911 , the muddy cat looks like it’s training to go into the military. :slightly_smiling_face:

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JonnyBoy81-You’re right . It really does!

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Only a tabby could do that.

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@axnr911 , during the making of the second Top Gun film, the directors should have used this cat instead of Tom Cruise. Who wouldn’t watch that? A cat version of Top Gun?

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JohnnyBoy 81, I think all of us that have enjoyed this thread of posts would enjoy it! And Rups is right. It should star a tabby for the lead. :grin:

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@axnr911 , cat with assault rifle. It’s an action film I’d watch. Move over Jason Statham. Make the cat speak like Arnold Schwarzenegger, job done.

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