Golden Pothos
Tropical Garden # 74
these popped up in this ginger pot, and it has been in the pond shallow end, but was afraid it was drowning the ginger, can anyone tell me what these are called? I wonder how they got there, maybe roots traveled with the ginger or someone sent them to me and I can't remember?
This message was edited Jun 8, 2010 7:12 PM
txbigleaves, I have a golden pothos that I'm hoping will climb up a tree but it completely dies back in winter so it starts from ground zero ea season. how do you protect yours? doesn't look like it dies back like mine
Good Afternoon!
prita....what is the gorgeous hanging basket in your post #7862244 on June 5????
It is just beautiful......but all your plants are!!
Thanks.
TexasBelle
Vossner.
The ONLY reason that i'am able to have and to keep tropicals is that i have two greenhouses. I found the pothos in the dumbster behind the homedepot. It was in a 2inch pot half dead.It started to grow and grow. For 25 cents i will tell you and only you the secret of getting big leaves on it. ONLY joking!!!!!!!! When it starts growing up a tree or pole it will start to grow big leaves, then cut it off below the the top with the leaves and root it. Then at the end of the next summer do the same,then you have giant leaves on your Pothos. Mine is planted in a 20gal. pot. I put in the grnhouse in winter. I'am start to do a green and white marble queen pothos this way.
Jerry, Ps the picture is not a pothos.
My golden pothos is out by the tree.. last year it grew huge leaves. I moved the pink pothos out front to the oney suckle hedge on the southeast corner of the house. This is the first year I have ever seen blooms on caladiums. They just keep coming.
joeswife, what do you do with your tropicals in winter?
I keep them in my basement which is 1900 sq feet of empty space for the most part.. the plastic on the right is to keep the heater vent from blowing directly on the plants. I move them in around the end of september when it is the same temp outside as it is inside at night.
for rita..This is the big stick of Hibiscus you sent. It has rained 2.2 inches in the past hour with 60 miles an hour winds.. there was a small break so I went out and found I lost my bloom off of the brug elizabeth dang it..
wow. You are a PRO :). Thank you very much for showing me the picture(picture says 1000 words). When they are in the basement, do you let them hibernate or treat them with periodic water/food? Also do you pretreat them for insect prevention before taking them inside?
I use bayer 3 in one, have lights set up to turn on for 12 to 14 hours as the sun moves East to West, spray with Kens Mix, feritilize, enjoy them, some times some want to rest, so I cut them back and have fun rooting cuttings and experimenting with seeds, I just love to Garden and in the winter it helps my sanity. It is hard getting them up and down the stairs tho, but fortunately at 58, I am still really healthy.Thanks to GordonHawks suggestion, I started using mesquitoe pellets in the watering can when the fungus gnats came around down there.. drove me nutz, but you have to remember bugs are everywhere outside, so goes to say they will follow the plants inside one way or another.
My new Japanese Painted fern... from a Raise My Baby Swap.. is a prenniel so she won't be coming inside.. and.. I am not a professional LOL.. my first true tropicals are Hibiscus and Lantanas, ( besides the house plants) I just couldn't bear to have them freeze and die here.
thank you. thank you. and thank you for all of your suggestions.
when you say--mosquito pellets--do you mean that fungus stuff that comes as donuts that we use in ponds?
just wondering if you ever use neem oil for prevention of stuff before you bring them in. It is organic and safe.
anyhow, if you want anything from this side of USA, please LMK. I will try to find the things for you. You are so passionate about gardening and I love to see passion in people.
usha
I am from southern India.
I use neem oil all year round in the soil.. I add it to the Kens Mix.. there is a thread On that mix on the brug forum..
one more picture.. this is alabama yellow dahlia small mounding. It popped up in my hibiscus pot as soon as I moved it outside. It is growing up on a pedestal and draping down the hib pot. I just can seem to get the courage to dig it out, since there are three more bloom arms up and budded.
your plants in AZ are lovely.. I miss living in the warmer year round climates..
jeeze Debra,
your basement is bigger than my house !
txbigleaves: I see. your pothos is potted and you just sit the pot by the tree. For some reason I assumed you had planted it inground by the tree, in which case I was wondering how it would survive your winter. A friend gave me a cutting of her pothos, which had huge leaves. It rooted and I planted it to climb up a tree, but the leaves went back to their normal houseplant size.
Maybe I should plant a rooted cutting in a slightly shadier location, like the one I saw in Mumbai.
This message was edited Jun 9, 2010 9:37 AM
Once Pothos is drastically disturbed, such as made into a cutting, the leaves become small until the plant recovers. That's been my experience. The biggest leaves I get (close to a metre long) mainly form higher up in trees. Runners that hang down from high up in trees also have small leaves, staying small while they run across the ground.
In the photo you can see them right up the palms and also in the tree behind, about 15 to 20 metres up.
that's divine, tropic. what is the ave. low temp in your neck of the woods?
In this photo you can see runners hanging down. They can grow across large distances while looking for new trees to climb. Mine are mainly in shade.
pssst...what are your winters like?
(I was just looking it all up.)
We're in winter now. This year I've got myself a weather station so at the end of the year I'll have a better idea of what the temp range is. The nearest official weather station with that data, Middle Point, is a bit colder than here.
Average minimum temperature for the 3 winter months for Middle Point:
June 16.1C (61.0F)
July 14.9C (59.0F)
August 16.8C (62.2F)
thanks tropic. that is warmer than my zone9a, in the Texas Gulf Coast. No wonder your pothos is so outstanding and no wonder your pics are nothing short of spectacular.
Thanks Vossner. Living in this climate was a deliberate choice. I'm a woose when it comes to cold weather.
clerodendrum musical notes opened in the eve
Just to give you an idea, this morning's minimum at Middle Point was 14.9C (58.8F), at my place it was 18.9C (66.0F).
Our Acacias are flowering wildly now. The landscape is liberally splashed with various shades of yellow.
Acacia mimula
Acacia dimidiata
A NOID Acacia (will have to research it a bit more).
Not an Acacia although the flowers look a little similar. But a NOID that's also flowering now.
Caladium's in bloom. I leave mine in the ground year round, and sometimes we get something a bit different from what we planted.....
Turkey Bush, Calytrix exstipulata, seems to like disturbed gravelly soil. So it rapidly occupies roadsides putting on a massive display this time of year.
Grevillea dryandri is just about finished with its flowering.
Another of my many NOIDs, a common but rather unusually shaped flower.
Livistona humilis, the inflorescences grow well beyond the crown. These flower massively at the start of the wet season, and then sporadically for the rest of the year. They put on quite a display in the bush.
One of our Bladderworts, but don't know which one. Wet season they're under water in streams. Dry season when the water drops they come out flowering en masse.
Hibiscus meraukensis is still flowering but probably only for a few more weeks.
Cochlospermum fraseri, Kapok Bush, loses its leaves at the end of the wet season and flowers during the dry season. End of the dry season it develops large kapok filled seed pods and the leaves grow back. It's a large spindly shrub or small tree.
An Ipomoea sp. with Green Tree Ant (Oecophylla smaragdina) going for a stroll
I think this is Pachynema complanatum (or junceum), a small spindly shrub.
A Cleome species, but don't know which one.
Another small NOID.
No shortage of NOIDs.
