A plant seen everywhere by the roadside, Dad grew it into an old stump in a year, won't sell it even for 2000

Something seen everywhere by the roadside, played with by Dad for a year until it became an "old stump", he won't sell it even for 2000.

Nowadays stump bonsai make many stump lovers willing to spend heavily to buy them, which has also made the stump market boom. This momentum is getting stronger and stronger, leaving more and more stump lovers able only to look and admire. Because stump prices nowadays are quite expensive, for ordinary people it is still a bit difficult.

But liking something is a big motivation in itself, and it cannot stop your pace in caring for stumps. The key is to see how you think about it? People with ideas are never lonely when it comes to the things they like. Dad is just such a person. In the past he would still buy some stumps at the market to make bonsai, but because stump prices on the market are now relatively expensive, and added to his own income, he has to support the expenses of the whole family, so after weighing it up, he has greatly cut back on buying stumps.

But recently, this kind of old stump that Dad cares for also has great potential, one could say it is eye-catching. This thing is very common where we are; it is the purslane we cut to feed pigs when we were little, and now it has turned into a delicious wild vegetable on people's dining tables. But Dad never eats it; instead he uses it to make bonsai. More than a year has passed, and now it has become an old stump, and someone even offered 2000 yuan for one pot and he still did not sell it.

Being able to grow such an old stump also benefits from his many years of practical experience in growing stumps, all of which he applied to this. Purslane is also called jade plant, and the specific care method is: cut 8 to 12 cm long branches from roadside purslane, make the cut at a 45-degree slant, and at the same time, in order to reduce water evaporation, just leave a small number of leaves. Then put it in a cool, ventilated place, and after the wound has completely dried, it can be cuttings.

For caring for an old stump of jade plant like this, we choose to mix leaf mold, coarse sand and garden soil in a 2:2:1 ratio, and before cuttings just keep the soil slightly moist. After cuttings, do not water it for a week, letting it pass through the slow seedling period; in about 20 days it will grow new roots, and in one month it can be moved to a pot. When the jade plant grows to a certain height, it can be pruned and shaped, and this way it can quickly be turned into a good-looking old stump.

Isn't this method simple? When you have free time you can also try it yourself; the price of one or two thousand per pot is still quite tempting!