Propagation: Plant Propagation the Basics Sept 2017 , 0 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
gosh Kitt, you hafta take care of yourself! I use a big blue tub with handles filled with water, soap, and a tad of tea tree oil. Big pots that have to come in get soaked three times by pouring, and then sprayed with a sprayer. smaller ones sit in the tub immersed, all the leaves and twigs and stuff floats up and I scoop those out, I wash under and around the bottom and edges of the pots. everythng gets sprayed again in the garage with forbid and pyrethins ( 99%) ( used for bathing dogs) . Forbid is a very expensive miticide, and have to use it in the garage so the spray doesn\'t get into the turtles or fish.
Keith I hope that explains a little better. Big pots I can\'t lift get soaked with a pitcher of the soapy water mixture and then sprayed outside, and then the final spray in the garage. I am lucky to have a huge window in that garage, cuz everything still gets lots of light. they stay in there for three days. My Mom in Law ( 88) sprays all her stuff with raid home and garden which does not damage plants. its about 6 bucks a can. I\'d go thru ten cans if I did that method! Glad you all have butterflys, I still do too, hummers left Monday tho, since I haven\'t seen one since.
Alice, I\'d love to try turks cap, I\'ll trade ya with what ever you want of mine. I have a lot that can stand the weather there. We still have not brought in the big big stuff yet, it got up to 88 today.
Duranta ( golden dew drops) is in and blooming away, she was the first to go down, hubby thought she was stressing a couple weeks ago from the cold. She is huge.
Kings Mantle is really blooming heavy, too. especially since she came in. Brought in the Century plant, she takes up almost the whole space in the back of the basement.I have lots of spaces open for all the plants yet to come in, and shelves and shelves of seeds to go thru. Poodle hibiscus has been blooming since she came in. I have the idea basement. It\'s ugly, but usable. 11 steps down and has controlled climate and also enough lights on timers to mimic the sun going east to west.