Tropicals & Tender Perennials: december 21, 2005: b. sanguinea, yellow, 0 by Kell

Kell wrote:
Sangs suddenly are in all the nurseries here, these yellow ones too. 5 gallon ones with beautiful leaves. There must be a new grower in town. Though one nursery had phoma all over their sangs. It was when we went shopping with Sue and Patricia. It was a shock to see it.

How to do what, Jeanette? Send pollen? I just snip the anthers out and put in a small glassine bag, label it and put in envelope to mail. The faster the better. In the past I would just use wax paper and fold into a little envelope. The pollen is easy to wipe off the sides with a small brush. You get it all.

Yes, Annapet is not too far from me, we are separated by a bridge (San Rafael). I would say 1 hour away at the most. She is North of San Francisco and I am East. We both must take a bridge to get into the city, but a different one (me the Bay Bridge, Annapet the Golden Gate). And to get to each other, we must take yet another bridge (the San Rafael) . We are like a triangle with San Francisco being one of the points.

Actually sangs just love it here, Jeanette. I had a huge sang growing for years and years. It was a sight. This is sang country for I do not get too hot in the summer, stays in the 70s and always cool nights year round in the 50s summer and 40s winter.

My trouble is that sangs are very virus prone and once I started growing brugs in mass quantity, all my sangs caught ugly viruses. The leaves mottled. I also had bought 2 sangs from Kartuz and it was soon after they all came down with the mottled leaves. People still grow them like that for it only shows at certain times of the year, but I hated the look so I got rid of them. It was a sad day when I cut down my sang tree. This was the trunk. It was huge and so old. It also took up way too much space. I would cut it way down every year and it grew back so much bigger.