Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Holiday Cacti general Discussionpart #4. , 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Linda---

If you are not in a hurry--I plan to divide my Climbing Onion before i will put it outside.
Not sure--but I think there are now 3 "onions" in the pot. It is very crowded...
I will be glad to share one with you.....since you are one of "US"....
Wonder how big of a "bulb/onion" Logees is selling? Then--there is the shipping too.

Can you tell me how your grandmother treated this "onion"? Did she give it a dormancy period?
Watering? Dividing? Do you remember any of that???

From my experience with mine--when I bring it in and put it on my tiny laundry windowsill, I do not
pay any attention to it until I take it outside. I may dribble a bit of water on it once or twice, but that is it.
It is during this winter dormancy that it grows these amazing fronds....By now they are obliterating the window.
Almost makes me wonder if it is from somewhere South of the equator--where the seasons are backward?????
PF would have that info----I will have to look.....
I also think (??) the bulbs split during the winter dormancy here.

I take ALL my plants outside for the growing season--except my African Violets. Minding all their light requirements....
Usually, by mid to late summer, the fronds start yellowing out. You can just pull them off the plant..
I keep it under my high patio roof on a high plant stand (see picture above) and it gets just filtered light.

If you want--I can also send you--or anyone--some Pregnant onions. Have a nice new crop growing....
I started with those marble-sized "babies" and by now they are all the size of purple plums (the prune type).

Gotta go to my laundry room and take a picture now.....ALL just for YOU!

Again--I know this will digress from the Thread's topic--but I have to follow up with Linda's questions.
SO! Shoot me!.......

Here is the small window both of these "Onion" plants live on.
The green is ALL the fronds from the Climbing Onion--sitting on top of the smaller pots of "Newbie? Pregnant Onions.
You could call it an "Organic Curtain".............:o) They are all growing out of the bigger, white pot.