Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Dancing Girl, 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
Jackie,

Show us a picture of Phantom. Sounds like a good grower.

That room is a big utility room in the basement without any windows - just a lot of shop lights.

As for the "fuzz" on the pots, this is not residue or build up from fertilizer or calcium deposits. It is some kind of fungus that also can spread on the top of the soil if it stays wet. It doesn't appear harmful, just ugly. As for clay it has lots of bad points and some good points. It's cheap and it breathes are it's good points. It's heavy which can be good and bad - good for not blowing over as easily as plastic, bad for moving about. Deposits, moss, and algae are a personal thing. I don't mind the moss or even some deposits but the algae is something else. The one thing I really hate is how easily it breaks. I've dropped a few pots this year and I hate it when it shatters. What I really hate is when you pick a pot up by the collar and it snaps off. I've had two pots do that to me this year. Is it the quality of the pots lately?

Here is a picture of some of the "fuzz". The pot in the middle (Palomar Prince) is the worst case. The one to the right of it (Fuscomaculata) has some as well plus some deposits around the collar. The one to the left (Mary Bucholtz) may just be deposits.