What is up guys it's Sam Green's life off today. We are gonna go over my oxalus or oxalus. I have three plants currently growing and that's because my purple oxalus, oxalus, triangularis, ended up being exactly how the green one is right now and I've already repotted the green one once and it came back like triple the size and now I think it's done. It needs like a resting period so I'm gonna go ahead and show you how I go ahead and do that. If you found this video helpful go ahead and give it a thumbs up. So as you could see it just it looks tired. I mean it's kind of like this is what it looks like when sleeping they drip down versus being flat and awake and I mean some of them are okay but some of them like this discoloration almost kind of looks like powdery mildew but there's nothing there to wipe off. It's like in the leaf so I feel like it's losing chlorophyll and that it's just not strong enough that one actually might be so we leave that one but a lot of these I'm just gonna go ahead and take my scissors and I'm gonna cut right at this way level. There is actually a flower coming up in there so we'll leave the strongest leaves closest to that alone. These ones that are stretching towards the light are a little bit better. This used to be right on top of my kitchen shelf but like it shouldn't look like that at all and it's not because it's dry because it does have water two and a half inches down still wet so just like my purple one did this to me as well. Anything with a bulb kind of needs to go to sleep for like a short dormancy period so I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna cut the really spent ones down. This way it allows the leaves to give a little bit more energy to the rest of the plant like this should all be really nice and purple and it's just not. Let's give this guy a haircut. Okay so this is obviously from the dollar store and it's cute and adorable and we won't cut that and electrocute ourselves so let's move that out of the way just to be sure. Okay perfect. No. Taking a pair of clean scissors and instead of pulling these you know right from the base bat can actually stress the bulb a little bit more than needed and make it harder for it to generate the next time around or you'll just dislodge it in the dirt so that's why I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna cut as many as I can and it's really laggy it's like awful. I guess where I had it obviously was not getting enough sunlight so we're gonna keep it right where it is until it starts to come up and that is gone so I'll put these aside and we'll see how many I cut. A good rule of thumb is to make sure that you do not cut back and leave less than a third of the foliage otherwise it'll be too hard for it to pass its genetic material. Right now I'm taking the weakest ones see that one just kind of came out on its own I didn't have to cut that but that's because it's so spent. Technically you can let the plant go this far it'll push all of its energy back into the bulb to make sure that it does regenerate but I guess I don't have enough patience or I just want to make sure that the energy that the plant is pushing out pushes it to what is currently healthy otherwise I feel like I chance bugs a little bit more some of my house plants I'm noticing do have a little bit of soil net so I'll probably do a video on how I handle that so this is how much we cut off. Not too bad very very long very laggy and unfortunately they will not go in water well so it's not like they'd even look nice as a bouquet or something. So I think that's as much as I'm going to take off of it today that I'm saying today because as new ones grow in they'll stay shorter than some of these super super laggy pieces that I can't even get in the shot let's see right here and then eventually I'll clip this off as more of the plant fills in so the goal this next sprouting season or whatever is to get them to grow less laggy and a little bit stronger and not have to look for as much light so like I said I will have it here and if anything I made downsize the pot depending how the next round comes up so make sure you subscribe I will definitely post a couple of follow-up videos of projects I've been working on and filming and showing you guys and I will see you in the next one goodbye