Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Terrarium begonias, anyone?, 1 by hcmcdole

hcmcdole wrote:
I don't think we have to worry about cool summers here - drought a lot of years, flooding once in a while, but cool - no. PM starts in late Sep usually. 'Lynda Dawn' was the first to get it last year and it was just a couple of weeks that it was completely covered with it and leaves started falling off. I think that did it in. The funny thing (if you call it funny) is that Lynda was on the porch under a roof so PM does not need rain to spread.

Why would you pinch the buds off your tuberous begonias? To increase size? Are these flower buds or foliage? I gave up on tuberous but I might pick some up for annual color once in a while. The ones in CA have super huge blossoms - 7 inches and larger.

Anyone hear of or own B. 'Big'? It is a wax on steroids when it comes to bloom size. Here is one I bought recently. The blooms are supposed to be 3 inches across but so far it looks like 2.5" maybe. The lens cap is 67mm (about 2.6 inches) for comparison.