your Mid At and Friends indoor gardens 2013

Devon: here is a link to the method I use

http://www.rhododendron.org/articles.htm (everything I have learned has been from here)
Beginners tips for rooting Rhodos: http://www.rhododendron.org/v48n4p201.htm

They have a ton of great articles.

I also don't think that is true. They just need a drink if going through a drought because they don't have the established root system as older Rhodos.

If any MAGers are interested in Rhodos I'm a member of the Mason-Dixon chapter that meets a little bit north of Westminster, MD. DM me if you want more information or you're interested in attending a meeting (I'll make sure I go to that one). Haha.

This message was edited Feb 21, 2013 10:24 AM

I will make sure that both of you get starters. Ric has several of them rooting in the GH and I am going to take a few more cuttings as the plant is hanging to the floor from the stand I have it on so I keep cutting off the new lower leaves.

Time for a new thread...go to

http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1299412/

This message was edited Feb 21, 2013 10:21 AM

Paul--

When you come here--I will give you a cutting to an Azalea that id really different.
It is called "Coromo Shukibu". Got a rooted cutting from someone at work in 2008.

it is not a big shrub yet---so I cannot take a bunch of cuttings off of it--so don't all of you ask...please...
I will see if the man that gave it to me can get me some more---Bummer! i just talked to him yesterday.
He no longer works at HD--but comes in now and then...as a customer.

Please remind me.....G.

Gita- I am familiar with that cultivar it is gorgeous. I would love that. Thank you. Well if you don't see him again perhaps we can root a cutting or two in the summer.

I have an azalea that has linear blooms like kiromo shikibu sp? It is Tinas whorled http://www.pbase.com/azaleasociety/image/36361150 and was a rhodo of the year for the mid-atlantic a few years ago. It is a juvenile too so I can't cut it yet. But in the future..I know Devon has expressed interest. It only grows to a mature height of 2x2 or 3x3, my memory fails me.

Judy,


That's ok. I just wanted to respond to Gita on this thread to finish the conversation. Thxs.

P

Yeah you guys can feel free to trash this with azaleas from here on
:-)

Paul--
The blooms on the one you attached look the same--just a different color. My favorite garden color!
The one I have--the man that gave it to me, said that it likes to spill over a retaining wall.
So--it must be a bit trailing?
I can't say mine has grown a lot in the years I got it. it was NOT a cutting, like I said, but a well rooted small bush.

When would be the best time to take a cutting? Now? After blooming? How should azalea cuttings be rooted?

Thanks, Gita

Thanks, Paul. I pretty much followed that method, but I got a lot of mold. I'm not sure I kept the cutting at the right mix of temperature and light....

Yeah no problem. Hmm. Ok.

Well here are some things that I have been told by the more senior people when doing it:

It's important to ring out as much water as you can from the mix.
You don't need that much hormone, dip it and flick it like a cigarette.
Rhodo cuttings (not azalea) should be lightly scored.
They need good indirect light, too much sun they fry not enough they mold.

Other than that. You and I can discuss it at the next event or DM me and I can try and trouble shoot it.

Azaleas are really easy, Rhodos even the club people have difficulty some years.

Pitcher Plant story, A couple of weeks ago I bought a very nice little pitcher plant for GS JR and posted a few pic of it here. To make a long story shorter. JR wanted to leave the plant at my house instead taking it home but after several visits from Jamie he just couldn't resist taking it home. So after a week the pitcher plant was gone. Boy I missed that plant, I was thinking about looking for another one for me. They had them at DPF when I was there after the Seed Swap but the price was way too much. So yesterday when I was working the local Garden Expo one of the Vendors had them both the small one I originally had and this larger more colorful one. Very smart Vendor had a sign up stating that they eat Stink Bugs. I saw people carrying them out all day long. LOL So here is my new Pitcher Plant.

haha way cool. I hope they do eat stinkbugs!! what an awesome selling point.
Funny how JR got you to buy one plant you didn't plan to buy,now you have 2.

If anybody gets tired of this long thread there is an attempt at continuation- LOL
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1299412/

Maybe the point is moot in this day of everybody having fast net speed.