Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Links to some good products for your plumies, 0 by GordonHawk

GordonHawk wrote:
Clare.. well thanks.. I've been about here for years.. albeit in a limited manner... but posting pictures and such... I'm here getting my plumeria fix as it were ... as I'm locked out of all of my Yahoo groups... due to regestering with Flickr... the great free photo posting.. photo site recently taken over by Yahoo..I registered the other day using my Yahoo name and password.. and since then have been locked out of the groups I've been visiting for 5 years.. and can't get it back.. and have gotten no help from them as to what to do or why it happened.. they have alot of plumeria photos there ... some 4000 or so as I remember ...
Rj.. and back on topic almost... I love and use Lava also... it's not as much for drainage.. as there are lots of things that will help out there.. like the 145* F roof temps I grow my plumerias on... but the lava has paramagnetic properties that few other addatives have.. this paramagnetic aspect is what it is that causes the better uptake of nutrients you mentioned with lava.. I get my lava in a producet..also from the fine folks a Spray - n - Grow .. expencive but a little goes a long way.. and it isn't discipated with age ..
http://www.spray-n-growgardening.com/?key=VOL7&html=full&dat...
the link is both lines above... Paramagnetic forces are little understood... but are real... and is an energy system/field around the earth... here's a few paramagnetic links... the second is a wonderful book discussed in the first article
http://www.dirtdoctor.com/view_question.php?id=127
now for Philip Callahans wonderful Paramagnetism book
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-3917...
I saw Plumerias growing in only lava rock... chunks thrown out of the volcano in Nicaragua... and doing real well... dispite areal high acid air poluition and execive amounts of CO2 and sulpheric acids... the plumerias grow as the last plants up the side of the volcano where no other tree or plant might survive.. and are growing in softball sized lava hunks... and in an area where there are great excessive temperatures of the root zone... from the open lave pit in the volcanos crator below.... and the heat of growing in a black rock medium in the hot clime of Nicaragua...
well more a bit later there .. and if I'm really pressured..ha ha ha..... just a hint perhaps... I'll send out pictures from last years plumeria aganst the Manhatten skyline... or pictures of them blooming now inside.. looking out the window at it .. now that it's spring and 25*F outside... Gordon