Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Spring repotting after basement dormancy, 0 by andycdn

andycdn wrote:
The brugs I started last year from seed (February 2006) almost got to bloom by fall. My biggest one had 22 buds on it, which all dropped before opening when I had to bring it indoors to escape a hard frost. Another actually did bloom, a single flower.

I put most of them (6) in the basement and let them go dormant. Leaves dropped; they got a little pale light from a north facing window and i watered them lightly every other week or so. They started sprouting in March, and I brought them upstairs to my sunsplashed kitchen, where they started to grow leaves (indoor leaves, mind).

In May I repotted them and began hardening them off to outdoor conditions. Here are some of them, in bigger pots, ready to be farmed out around the place. I put moisture crystals in the soil mix as insurance -- last year they dried out fast, and I hope this year there will be lots of new growth and BLOOM!