On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
So this post is about cabbage hehe.
Sometime a couple of weeks ago, I read about regrowing food from kitchen scraps from someone (forgive me I forgot to save your page so I can't reference you, random blogger). One of the tips I read about was to just put the leftover cabbage in a shallow container with water, and that's it! So I thought - hmm, seems pretty easy, let's try it! So I did. 😺
Here I share some pictures I took while documenting the growth of this "leftover cabbage." This is a typical cabbage bought from the local King Soopers grocery store. It was stored inside a fridge for a couple of days before I chopped up the parts I needed. Then, I put the cabbage inside a plastic container and added some water.
2/23, Day 1, "planted" inside the container with just water in the evening. Initially I left it on the top shelf of a three-shelves kitchen cart by a window for a couple of hours. However, the same evening I saw Lulu jumped on the same shelf and was sniffing it so I quickly moved it to the middle of the three-shelves cart. She can't get on the second shelf.
3/7, the "purple pointy" bulb turned green. I had a feeling that thing was going to become a leaf and yep, it did in the next two days! Also, first day to see some white roots!
3/11, the tiny baby leaf seems a bit bigger than before (bottom left). Roots (bottom right) going well. Also, it occurred to me the cabbage was sucking up water at a faster speed than before. The heater has been on in the house at a consistent rate (set for 67 degrees) so it's not any large flucturates of the humidity inside the house. The plant just was sucking up more water so I started not only changing water during the day but also adding a bit more water by about 6 or 7pm. I add water to just a bit over the roots. I also took out some mushy leaves (old leaves) from the bottom.
The cabbage was left on the middle shelf until about 10 days later. While it was on that middle shelf, it didn't get any direct sunlight. I also changed water everyday, usually just before noon. This arrangement lasted until I noticed a tiny purple pointy "thing" on one corner on top of the cabbage. I didn't know what the purple pointy thing was. I just knew it was some sign of growth. Too bad I didn't snap a picture of it! The day I noticed the purple pointy thing was the same day I moved the container to a lower table that receives about 2-3 hours of sunlight in the afternoon.
3/7, the "purple pointy" bulb turned green. I had a feeling that thing was going to become a leaf and yep, it did in the next two days! Also, first day to see some white roots!
3/9, I noticed a tiny baby leaf bulb (I call those tiny tiny leaves bulbs because of their shape)!! Roots look like a venus flytrap's mouth? LOL
3/11, the tiny baby leaf seems a bit bigger than before (bottom left). Roots (bottom right) going well. Also, it occurred to me the cabbage was sucking up water at a faster speed than before. The heater has been on in the house at a consistent rate (set for 67 degrees) so it's not any large flucturates of the humidity inside the house. The plant just was sucking up more water so I started not only changing water during the day but also adding a bit more water by about 6 or 7pm. I add water to just a bit over the roots. I also took out some mushy leaves (old leaves) from the bottom.
3/13 Below you can see the roots are really expanding and the tiny cabbage leaf is thriving.
3/14, the cabbage continues to suck up more water than before. The current arrangement is still change water daily during the day and add a bit more water at night.
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The picture below was taken today (3/15) at around noon.
The cabbage leaves look kinda cute!
I'm thinking to give it a permanant home in a planter this weekend.
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