Downsizing

For my last pot of wandering Jew, I decided I wouldn't trim the stems and just let it keep growing as long as possible.  It grew quite long and pretty dense to the point that weekly watering was not enough to keep all the limbs nourished.  It started to dry out from the top and underside out.  Finally, at least half of it dried up and I decided to downsize it like crazy.  Observe:

Dense and long - I flipped the long ends up and over the pot.

Here it is as I start to shake out the leaves (with camera flash).

Not in terrible shape, but too dried out.

I clipped about 20 or so tips to root and repot.

I had to replenish this vase 2 times as the new roots sucked up all the water!

Ready to pot!

A new strategy I am using is to place cut-offs of leftover mosaic tile samples in the bottom of pots instead of stones.  I get the samples for free from work and they would otherwise be thrown out.  I like this better than stones, as the stone tend to mix in with the soil and it's hard to reuse them without spending a lot of time and water cleaning them.  The tiles come out and with a quick rinse (or not) are ready for reuse.