Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Advice Please, and a BIG Question, 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
I am sure you will be successful, Erick if you push them! Also if they are from cuttings above the Y, they will bloom much much faster!

I find if I keep potting them up to the bigger size pot as soon as they can be, they love it. I go 16 oz cup to 1 gallon can to 5 gallon can to 15 gallon usually in 1 season for the brugs I am really pushing. Then the next year I put them in 25 gallon can and then from then on out I repot every spring after I root prune.

I recently read on here where some people pot even their little ones in a 25 gallon pot right off. Sure would save on work. LOL. My problem is room. I need to see them bloom before I waste that much room on them.

You can even get a 1 gallon plant to bloom but you have to water a lot and really push the fertilizer. The plant usually looks sad too.

I foliar feed my brugs in addition to soil fertilizing and they seem to love it. I use MG to foliar feed. MG should really make your leaves nice and green. But I also use seaweed, VF-11, and things like that via foliar application. I also have found that Messenger brings them to bloom much faster than if left on their own.

I am sure they will be stars in your Minnesota garden, Erick! I use a few in my courtyard to be my WOW factor!