cutting the new growth question

Not sure what it is that you posted. Redirected by who? To where???

Glad you got to see the images on Yahoooooo.......WoooooHooooo!....:o)

my pregnant onion had tons of pups but my climbing onion has only dropped one pup since I've owned it & that never amounted to a plant......

Depsi--

It has been several years now that I divided my Climbing Onion because someone was begging
me for one. She said she had been looking for one for 3 years.

Mine had just "split" ans I dug it up and sent her one of them.

It has been ONLY since last year--that it split again. I now seem to have 3 "onions" growing in the pot.
I do not want to divide them again--as I have seen pictures of these growing, literally, in a pile
on top of each other. I might give them a bigger pot, though.

SO! It is VERY slow going with the Climbing Onion. At least here. Maybe in CA or FL, where they
can be outside year round, they grow bigger and faster and lusher.....

As I have said--mine sits dormant, and almost totally dry all winter--from end of Oct. to end of April.
It IS during this time that it grows these insanely long fronds that go all over the place.

They will still be there most of the summer (outside) but will start to yellow and die by end of summer.

I am not saying I know all there is to know about this plant. I can only share what has, or has not, worked for me.

Gita

Thanks Gita, I always know you will have my answer! I love the silly guy & I get a blue ribbon on it every year at the County Fair here so that makes me proud as can be.....now it seems everyone in town wants one....and Logee's doesn't carry them anymore but I did find a number on line for someone who sells them....thanks for the response.....

So how is the progress of your bathtub Epi going Depsi.

Do you have any updates ?

It is now residing in the guest bedroom which is unheated.....in a east facing window, don't know what to do with it to be honest, it's just so huge and ungainly.....like a lanky, awkward teenager going every which way at once.....any suggestions?

My Dragon Fruit has done a similar thing.
If you would like to read all about it ?
Here's a link; http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1244422/
I am going to cut it down.

Depsi, This is not a good houseplant, It can be kept alive indoors for the winter, but should be outside , in better light for the summer. Mine has climbed over a 10' block wall twice, but it has also been radically cut back twice. They are pretty tough...will take temps into the 40s for short periods, but need good light. I have neighbors that grow them in full Ca. sun. They look terrible but they bloom like crazy. Don't feed until spring growth starts, and let it get almost dry between waterings, as with most epiphytes. Over feeding will produce excessive growth, but no blooms.
If you move it outside in filtered sun for the summer, you should see blooms...if you are up at night.

Now that is puzzling cause I don't overfeed...I'm really careful about that 'cause I understand how it works against the plant....I use the same one for this plant that I use for my hoya's....I really have nowhere to put it outside since we have deer everywhere here...maybe in the area where we feed the birds....I'll figure something to do with it....the guest room has worked out this winter because it isn't heated....before I hung it inside our insulated shop in an east facing window but now there is a lean-to on that wall so no light....I had to put one of my huge hoya's in the compost two years ago 'cause I just had no where to put it and no one in our group wanted it 'cause they are dealing with their own big plants...when I lived in Sacramento I grew everything outside on the covered patio, not now, we have lots of snow....in fact, snowed today....the picture is of earlier this winter....

Brrrr! I don't know if the deer would find it tastey, but it will obviousely be a while before you can put anything outside.

We have that area in the front to feed the birds....there is fencing around it, then in the back we have a chain link fence so we can have our two little dogs protected + have raised garden bed back there too....below on the lowest bench of our property we have a fenced orchard with 5 new beds to be planted this year....Or I should say I hope to get planted....my husband just had emergency triple bypass open heart surgery 2/15 so we are sorta in easy mode....I've been planting seeds today to get some starts going inside here.....surprising how much there is to do all the time....trying to finish a tshirt quilt too....

That is the coolest picture!!! we have some pics of a yearling moose that hangs around a Ranger's Station up here.....he licks all the plastic off the caretakers vehicle to get at the salt....Thanks for sharing that!!!