Have you ever had celery in the refrigerator so long to the point where it becomes link and bends from it's own weight? I had one of those recently. The celery itself still looked "good" in the sense it was green. It wasn't rotting or brown or disgusting. Perhaps some might find limp celery gross. I was determined not to just have to toss out the celery and attempt to revive it in a cup of water. I grabbed a mug, filled it with a little bit of water, and plunked the flimsy celery in.
After a few days the celery had plumped up and became firm again. But of course after it had reached a point where it was edible, I wasn't in the mood for celery. I left the celery in the mug for a week or so while adding water. One day I removed the celery to rinse it off a bit under the faucet and surprisingly I observed some roots growing from the bottom of the stalks. Interested, I decided to let the plant grow as opposed to eating it. I eventually moved it to a sunny window from the dark corner I had it in in the kitchen. Before I knew it the plant started turning a deep green compared to the pale green it had been. I continually added water to the mug to keep it alive. Checking it more closely after a few weeks, I noticed the celery was beginning to grow flowers. I thought that was interesting. It is trying to reproduce after spending a month in the refrigerator. The roots were starting to come in too. None were very long but there were a lot more. I decided to keep this experiment going and plant it outside in some dirt. Before I knew it, the plant was blooming. I have to say the flowers are tiny. They are small white specks. I suppose I don't have too much to say about the plant after that. I was hoping it would grow more stalks or leaves but instead it decided to bolt and bloom. And with that I'll conclude this with a photo of the plant.
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