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Nov. 12th, 2014 09:48 amAll but one of my H. papilio x emerald have put up leaves after their fungus and mite treatment -- even the one that I inadvertently sliced almost in half.
The H. papilio x chico that I drenched because of whitefly are also putting out new leaves.
Both H. mandonii are showing good growth.
The H. papilio I fretted over last spring are looking really good. The Telos bulbs each have nine leaves, so I'm hoping they'll store up enough energy to bloom soon. I understand it takes 18 months for a flower scape to begin deep in the bulb and then emerge, and some kinds of insult (such as heat treatments) cause the buds to abort. But hope springs.
The H. 'son of supermarket' Class of 2013 have been looking mighty peaky. I've had a fair amount of leaf yellowing. I'll water sparingly over the winter and if they don't show signs of dying I may re-pot them come spring.
H. classes of 2006 and 2009 and H. 'gervase' are all still in the back house and will need to be treated and re-potted some time in December. Or possibly January. Depends on how crazy the holidays get. Perhaps this year I'll be able to steel myself to select one or two from each class and give the rest away.
I am awash in Hippeastrum. I really should cull some.
All Schlumbergera look disgustingly healthy. The ones on the third-floor windowsill are crowding each other something fierce despite having been pruned last summer. After they've bloomed this year I intend to cut them way back and to root a few cuttings just in case.
Nothing seems to be doing very well under the grow lights this year. I hope I don't lose all my coleus. The begonia I scavenged on our summer vacation looks like it's giving up, bleah. I took extra cuttings of my coleus a week or so ago just in case the ones in the basement continue to pine away.
The H. papilio x chico that I drenched because of whitefly are also putting out new leaves.
Both H. mandonii are showing good growth.
The H. papilio I fretted over last spring are looking really good. The Telos bulbs each have nine leaves, so I'm hoping they'll store up enough energy to bloom soon. I understand it takes 18 months for a flower scape to begin deep in the bulb and then emerge, and some kinds of insult (such as heat treatments) cause the buds to abort. But hope springs.
The H. 'son of supermarket' Class of 2013 have been looking mighty peaky. I've had a fair amount of leaf yellowing. I'll water sparingly over the winter and if they don't show signs of dying I may re-pot them come spring.
H. classes of 2006 and 2009 and H. 'gervase' are all still in the back house and will need to be treated and re-potted some time in December. Or possibly January. Depends on how crazy the holidays get. Perhaps this year I'll be able to steel myself to select one or two from each class and give the rest away.
I am awash in Hippeastrum. I really should cull some.
All Schlumbergera look disgustingly healthy. The ones on the third-floor windowsill are crowding each other something fierce despite having been pruned last summer. After they've bloomed this year I intend to cut them way back and to root a few cuttings just in case.
Nothing seems to be doing very well under the grow lights this year. I hope I don't lose all my coleus. The begonia I scavenged on our summer vacation looks like it's giving up, bleah. I took extra cuttings of my coleus a week or so ago just in case the ones in the basement continue to pine away.
