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Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Tan on June 17, 2009, 15:15:12 PM
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For anyone who has brought the catnip plant kit..... How is your plant coming along?
First time for me growing my own lol so just wondering if i am doing it right :shify:
Had mine in a glass, now seeds have grown about 3 inches and i think it's time to separate the "bits" and plant in small individual pots but how's best to do this to not harm the plants?
Can't you tell i'm not very green fingered!! :-:
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I never bothered thinning out when i last hatched baby niplets, they never got big enough for overcrowding to be a problem :evillaugh: ;)
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Mine never get big enough to be thinned out, they either cat sat on, chewed to bits or slobbered all over :rofl:
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Here's me catnip plant so far lol with added grass growing in it as well ! :-:
Whatche reckon - Is it time to pot in invidual pots?
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I'd put it in a big pot and let it do it's thing - catnip's pretty crazy once it gets going. Is that the catnip used in the "Meeoow" sardine toys? If so, I'll have to get a plant!
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Thanks hun will dig out a bigger pot for it. ;D
It's the Canadian strong catnip we do which is close to Yeowww stuff. Yeowww don't do the plants ................yet :evillaugh: :evillaugh:
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Awww - Yeooowww need to do a plant too! I'd definitely get one of those.
This is our catnip plant(the one with the blue flowers); don't know how we'll move it if we leave this house!
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Blimey! that's a size I've bought loads of plants in the past and planted them and the ferals just squashed them to death :innocent: they love it!! :naughty:
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Coo thats huge ;D Bet the bees like that :)
Have you tried to dry out the buds from it? It's meant to be the most strongest part of the plant?
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Have you tried to dry out the buds from it? It's meant to be the most strongest part of the plant?
:shify: ....Oh the catnip! :naughty: :rofl:
I didnt know it looked like that, very pretty! :Luv:
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Have you tried to dry out the buds from it? It's meant to be the most strongest part of the plant?
:shify: ....Oh the catnip! :naughty: :rofl:
Spoilsport! Haven't really tried drying it out with any real determination. Cropped it a year or so ago (supposedly to make it a more manageable size :-:) but haven't used the dried stuff in anything yet.
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Theres different types of plant, some more tasty than others
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There definitely are - I have the monster in the picture and some lemon catnip in a tub. (Which looks like nettles and is nowhere near as pretty.)
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Sticking my neck out here, but the Catnip Nepeta is actually Nepeta Canaris (which suggest dogs to me, but what do I know??) butter all is the answer to that one! :evillaugh: If you want to thin out to replant, you can be awfully posh and buy an aluminium dibber, or you can be a slob like me and use an ice lolly stick. Just gently tease the roots apart, as long as you get the main tap roots intact it'll be fine. Then re-pot. They should take in decent compost as long as the cats don't get there first. :rofl:
You also get the pleasure of eating the ice lolly! :Luv:
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The blue flowering plant is a catnip nepeta and my cats LOVE it! ;) It might be part of the reason our garden is so popular....
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Sticking my neck out here, but the Catnip Nepeta is actually Nepeta Canaris (which suggest dogs to me, but what do I know??) butter all is the answer to that one! :evillaugh: If you want to thin out to replant, you can be awfully posh and buy an aluminium dibber, or you can be a slob like me and use an ice lolly stick. Just gently tease the roots apart, as long as you get the main tap roots intact it'll be fine. Then re-pot. They should take in decent compost as long as the cats don't get there first. :rofl:
You also get the pleasure of eating the ice lolly! :Luv:
Remembering to eat the lolly first :rofl:
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Awww - Yeooowww need to do a plant too! I'd definitely get one of those.
This is our catnip plant(the one with the blue flowers); don't know how we'll move it if we leave this house!
OMG how did you manged to get your catnip to grow so well. I buy at least two cat nip plants every year and as soon as they go in the garden my lot (Zephyr in particular) attack it and within two or three days the entire plant has been nibbled down to the soil! :rofl: :rofl: Between my lot and the other local kitties I can't keep catnip!