Chelsea, Emily, Ryan, and Anyone else with a cutting

Friends,

So you all should by now be blessed with the gift of a cutting, shining hope onto that little "semilla" of a plant, it waiting to grow into something fantastic, and through your help, make the world a better place. Regardless, you're probably over-worrying about its state and about whether you're giving it too much attention. This should make things simple: The majority of you (friends) have either ficus or olive cuttings, and if you don't have one you soon will. For the Ficus cuttings the majority of those will already have been rooted and place in a soil mix of 1 part perlite and one part peat moss, which is a very good soil type (i think for ficus cuttings). The focus of your ficus will be to keep it alive through watering, sunlight, and fertilization. Watering may be the most difficult matter, as its timing should not be scheduled and entirely depends on the type of day that the plant had, but nothing to fear. Mostly, watering goes buy the feel of the soil, if its moist no problem, and if its dry a little underneath the soil, a little watering may be in need. This is the way it is but otherwise you'll get the hang of it as the middle of texas summer a plant can need watering even three times a day. The Fici should be placed near a sunny window during late autumn, all of winter, and early spring (now). However, when it warms up for good, they can be placed under a shady tree, and like I saw this past summer, may develop a leaf a day. You should not have to worry about fertilization for now because the soil they are in has added fertilizer. For those of you who received a cutting placed in a paper cup of water you directions follow: Place the cutting in a rather sunny area inside for now, and they will not go outside until further into spring. The rooting process is amazing, natures great mystery  unfolds before our eyes. Every week or so, check on the root's development, and after about three weeks roots should have developed and it is ready for planting. I'll get into root development later and olive cuttings as well. Hope this helps!