Texas Gardening: Looky what I've got!, 1 by kenboy

kenboy wrote:
If you step it up to a larger pot, I would not trim the roots or foliage. If you want to divide it, you will be doing some root damage so you will need to cut the foliage back to about 18 in. I would dust with sulphur and do not keep too wet. Gingers reproduce through the rhizomes and every piece with roots is another plant. If you divide soon, by Spring you will have several plants that have a good head start for the year and you should gets lots of blooms.

I do not know why more people don't grow more Gingers in this part of the country, we have perfect conditions. Maggi started her nursery the first week of June 08. Before she opened it she posted fliers in the little towns around us. On the fliers, she mentioned that we had Gingers. Someone called and said " I see on your fliers that you have Gingers". He said that a professor at UT Tyler where he worked, suggested growing Gingers because of their beauty and ease of growing. He said he had been to almost every nursery in the Longview, Tyler area and now had four different Gingers. He asked how many Gingers we had and I said around thirty, he said I'll be right there. When he came over he said you'll are a very small nursery, where are the Gingers, so I showed him around the place. Another time I went to a very large nursery in Tyler and asked the lady at the checkout if they had any Gingers. She replied that they had both types, but that one really was not a true Gingers. I informed her that there is over 1,300 Gingers, then she said yes but they won't grow here. So much misinformation.