Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Before and after, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Butch--thanks for chiming in. You always know so much!

--The plant never died--it stayed alive all winter in my Shop. It even kept many leaves on it.

--NO new shoots from the ground at all.

--I have looked--and do not see a graft union.

--I pruned it back so it can re-grow from the old stems and bloom.
--I pruned each stem back, selectively, to about 12" or more above the soil level.
Like I would prune any other plant to rejuvenate it in the spring. Nothing near the soil was touched.

I did put it in fresh soil anda bit bigger pot--and top-dressed it a little bit.
Did not root-prune it as this was ONLY it's second year (at least in MY possession.)

Beats me! No one is answering me on the Hibiscus Forum. Shame on you!!!

1--This is from October last year. I kept it under this light as it kept blooming.

2--This is taken on Dec. 28. Last bloom it had indoors.
I think this may be when i took it down to the Shop, where it dropped a bunch
of leaves--but kept some. I can notice that the leaces have lost their "puffyness"
and look almost flat.

3--This is how I pruned it back in mid-April of this year. Nothing wrong with this--right?
But--you can see a leaf growing at the base in the "new" shape. Slow metamorphosis...

--And--we are back to June--last month--and here it is re-growing.

A mystery! Gita