One of my two Clivias is blooming! And--it has a second bud comming
on one of the other clusters. Pretty!
The other one will bloom later--last year--it bloomed early summer outside.
G.
Indoor gardens Jan 2014 Mid Atlantic
Beautiful ! I love that orange.
Is that yellow?
No, Paul--it is just a new bud coming out--still a bit pale...
It is the same plant that is in bloom....
Love seeing you pop in here every 3 weeks or so---but at least I can
see that you are paying attention to all these Posts... :o)
I would freak out if it WAS yellow!!
G.
Wow Gita, that's gorgeous!! Would be really cool if you did get a yellow bloom on there too, that would be really pretty!
Beautiful, Gita!
Beautiful flowers, Gita.
Do you keep them outside during the summer?
Karen---
Yes! They are outside all summer and fall--same as ALL my houseplants.
They sit in, pretty much, total shade on the makeshift table right in front of the big
Burning Bushes behind that big, round table under my patio.
Where you turn the corner to walk unto my patio--they would be immediately on your left.
Look behind the trash can on the left--you can see a splash of orange,
This is in June last year--and the other Clivia is blooming.
Pic. #2--a close-up of the "other" Clivia.
This one is a different variety--as it has rounded leaf-tips.
The blooms are much more intense orange and it blooms way later (June).
It is the one the Customer-man (at HD) gave me a couple years ago.
I did not realize at that time that this one was different from all the others
I had-one of which is the one now blooming in my LR.
On these--the leaves are pointed.
In the 1st picture--you can also see where my "Piilu" Clematis lives...
in a pot on the inside of the patio pole. Not much sun--but it seems happy there.
Paul--Are your Clivias starting to bloom now???
Gita
My Clivias are not blooming yet. The one at my house has a big offshoot from last year. I was planning on repotting it this year since the offshoot has already been claimed by my brother and SIL. I only have eyes and a hand on two of them. Perhaps they needed to rest longer.
Paul--
Just remember--they do better when root-bound.
Perhaps, dividing them may set them back--as far as blooming goes.
Just FYI---Gita
That is exactly what I was thinking about why it hasn't bloomed this year. Obviously with the off shoot it has a considerable amount of space in the pot to grow. I'll split it and put one in a smaller pot for blooming and keep the other in the larger pot for propagation.
spider mites reaching critical mass- full on attack on citrus and elephant ear.
Oh dear, Sally! I would do a dunk in mild soapy water. Then mist very often with water. I'm sure you know they don't like humidity. Why not just cut the leaves of the elephant ear? shouldn't it be pretty much dormant by now anyway?
Citrus is tough to get rid of SM. Might need to break out the big guns.
Yes typwc I agree.
I took the Meyer(?) lemon outside and drenched it top to toe with Indoor Pharm organic soap spray with rosemary oil (?) also sprayed the top soil after removing loose leaves that had fallen. Then I found a clear bag and made a greenhouse on the pot. Now it will sit in the cooler basement and hopefully not have enough mites left to get out of the bag and do damage to a few other things there that seem OK so far.
Yes I agree cut off the 2-3 leaves of the elephant ear that are being literally sucked dry from the edges. Surprisingly they are new leaves since fall. They had actually grown larger inside, in response I guess to the light stand with ~14 hr light .
ah those tropicals they just don't quit or go in to 'dormancy' guess that's why they are tropicals!
Seriously, my pots of bananas and EEs stowed on my unheated porch all do keep growing to some extent, even though I don't water and pots were in various stages of dryness when stowed. They will suck moisture from leaves left on which is why I leave a few leaves instead of cutting them all off and just leaving 3-6 inches of 'stalk' : if stored too wet, growth of leaves continues, if tuber too dry, all leaves dry out first. Gives me a good margin of error between moldy/rotted and dried out/dead without havining to examine tuber by tuber several times while stored.
Haven't looked at porch to see what if any effect deep prolonged cols might have on what is in there. Not sure how my Dragon Wing and Angel Wing Begonias will fare...and I'm not ready to 'know' yet!
I have a problem with my Brug cuttings....
Oh, they have grown...lots of leaves, etc....BUT..noticed today that too many
of the brug cuttings are dropping full-sized, green leaves...Hmmmmmmmmmmm????
Flashback to last summer when I had all these issues with my Brugs. Remember?
The leaves would yellow and drop---The Dr. Seuss had weird curling leaves....
AND--the pink NOID one in the pot by my patio pole had crippled top growth--
every stem ended up with a blunt tip.
I would spray with Neem--and it would subside for a week or so, then start again.
I was talking to a customer at HD about this--and he said I should spray them
all with "Forbid". Yeah??? NOT available to the home gardener....
So--this gentleman brought me a very small bottle with a pipette in the cap and said
I should;d spray it with that. Gave me VERY strict description (pages) of this
product. Like--ONE drop per gallon of water......
SO--today--I took all my Brugs down to the laundry room and sprayed them all down.
Seems only the pink NOID'd had the stem tip problems--but one of the Dr. Seuss
was also showing signs of it. The leaves on all looked mottled--like with Spider Mites.
After a while of pondering this situation--I decided to cut ALL their growth back
to stems near the original cutting top.
YUP! That's what i did....All their growths were too sprawled anyway.
Here is my concern---Bummer! That even in taking 5" stem cuttings last fall,
this affliction was carried over to them.
Most of the Dr. Seuss's were OK--but I cut every one of them back as well.
We will see...we will see.....any comments?????
Gita
I dunno, but mottled leaves that drop suddenly does sound like spider mites.
My small Dr Seuss- I pulled up the pot and let it dry and now I am afraid all the stems seem totally dried and dead. Not like the Maya which are dried but greenish.
Sally--
Are the stems dried all the way down? or--just the top parts?
I always cut my brugs back before I bring them in. So--maybe, if you did not,
it is just the tops of the stems that are drying up? Depends on how big it was.
Also--when I dig my Brug up--I put a plastic bag around the exposed toots and the pot.
By spring--you can cut it back as far as you want--BUT--try to stay above the first "Y",
which may be way down on the trunk where it first split.
I should have enough Dr. Seuss cuttings ti share--IF they all get over this funk.
On the Maya--mine in the basement (dormant) is doing good. It has leaves at the top
of each stem--so it is alive. It will grow come summer--I am sure.
Re Maya cuttings I took--I almost have none...I say "almost--as there is ONE, poor little one
that is struggling to live. It has 2 tiny leaves on it--and that is that...
If this one makes it--it will be donner's....keeping my fingers crossed....
Any of you that have aa healthy Maya brug --please take a couple cuttings early this spring
to share--in case mine gives up the ghost. Donner really wants one.
Here is my poor, struggling-to-live Maya cutting. And the small mama in the Shop.
G.
So I noticed yesterday while watering my Fiddleleaf Fig tree that it has brown edges on last years' leaves and some of older leaves from last summer's growth.
I got this plant about a year ago, it's a baby still. I believe it has only seen 2 growing seasons (last year was at my house on my covered porch). It did great out there but I don't think it's loving life so much inside. It gets really good, bright, indirect light. This is my first FLF but not my first Ficus (I also have an indestructible Rubber Plant).
The leaves on my plant look like the one in the picture on this blog:
http://theinspiredroom.net/2013/05/23/plant-sos-fiddleleaf-fig/
People suggested that the plant on the blog was being overwatered. Now I'm definitely not an overwaterer, If anything I'm an underwaterer. Does not watering enough make leaves do this? I haven't fertilized the plant at all since summer. Maybe it needs a little shot of something? Don't want to fertilize it if it's sick from something else.
Any ideas?
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Karen--
I think what your FLF needs is regular misting to provide some humidity.
You can take it to your sing and shower it down. Look out for Spider Mites as well...
They love hot and dry conditions...
It did well on your porch because Baltimore has plenty of humidity.
Ficus needs some humidity indoors.
The only other thing may be too much dry heat, which can dry out the edges of plants.
Is it sitting near a heat vent?
BTW---the Blog link did not open....as you did not "space" between the link and your text.
I learned that the hard way....
You can edit your Post and click "space" after the words...."this blog>"
I just had an issue with all my Brug cuttings--they get too much heat as my light
stand sits right above a heat vent below it. Works good for seedlings--but not plants..
They also had the same issue as I had last summer with my brugs...I sprayed them all
and cut all the leaves off to start over...
See the "Indoor gardening Thread"...
G.
Gita, You are right on all accounts:
1. Plant probably does need more humidity. I might even relocate it to the bathroom. Let's see how my husband reacts to that! hehehehe I bet he's gonna love it.
2. Yes, it's right by the heat vent! :/
3. Fixed the blog link.
Sorry you are still having issues with your brugs. I know they are very special to you. I wish I knew what the problem is.
I have a big Maya so I will be sure and try to get one going for donner.
That was brave of you to cut those leaves off Gita!
typwc, I think AL tapla has described symptoms of low humidity as also being due to root problems, that were due to salt buildup. Now that does not sound like your situation. If your soil is well draining, maybe it needs to be thoroughly soaked? In underwatering, maybe it has become completely bone dry in some parts.
Sally---well, yes! Sometimes one just has to grin and bear it and chop away...
I did not like the sprawled way they grew out anyway.
Maybe now they will be a bit more compact....
All I really need for next summer is ONE good Dr. Seuss Brug.
I was not going to root any of my pink NOID--but....you know....I couldn't resist...:o(
See how sprawled they are? This is from last November...They grew so fast!
G.
Gita and Sally, thank you for trying to grow a Maya for me :-). I LOVE their variegated leaves.
Gita, this website has some information on brug problems http://www.trumpetflowers.com/plant-pathology/brugmansia-leaf-problems-and-solutions.htm. Does any of them look like the one with yours?
My brug cuttings are kept in the apartment this year. So far they are bug free, probably because I am on the 11th floor :o). However, I only noticed in the past week or so that many leaves are getting spots. They are not completely brown in color and are not always on the leaf tips. Leaves with this problem fall off well before the spots progress to the entire leaves.
This problem looks a bit like the 2nd photo on the website above. I will bring back some fungicide with me next week and see if that might help.
The cuttings are healthy otherwise. One of them even has a flower bud :o).
looks great donner! should smell heavenly , I think fungus is a good guess for yours. I have spots on one of my orchids and saw that it needs good air circulation to prevent fungus.
I agree with sally---
mine did not have anything like that--mine really, really looked like
Spider Mite damage...Could not see any though--even with a magnifying glass..
However--this would not cause the stunted tip growths.
I had this last summer on my Pink brug. See pics....
Will check out your link--karen... Thanks--G.
edited to say--
since this is occurring again mostly on the pink Brug cuttings-
and being that i don't really want to grow them again (left mama out to freeze),
maybe i should just get rid of the pink cuttings. DAH!!!
makes sense!!!---that will open up room for a new Brug--should one come my way.
This message was edited Feb 7, 2014 3:05 PM
Karen--
Tried to open your link--and this is the message I got...
WHAT does the second paragraph mean???????
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The requested URL /plant-pathology/brugmansia-leaf-problems-and-solutions.htm. was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
The pink Brug seemed to be most prone to spider mites of the three I have grown, also...nice scent and pretty but I can't give the level of care it needed to thrive here. High maintenance!
Gita, just need to remove the period at the end of the URL:
www.trumpetflowers.com/plant-pathology/brugmansia-leaf-problems-and-solutions.htm
Hope it works this time.
Karen---
The info in that link is PRICELESS......Wish I had it all in a book/pamphlet to refer to.
I DID Bookmark it....Was considering printing it out too...in COLOR!
Now I know that the leaf-curling I had on my Dr. Seuss last summer was BROADMITES.
Invisible, nasty, nasty things!!!
Thank God I have a little bit of "Forbid" a kind customer at work gave me last year.
A little bottle (2oz) with a pipette attached to the lid, as you only use one drop.
It is a very thick, milky product.
I will also try to totally re-pot my ONE little brug (Maya) and start with fresh soil.
The Maya is what last year had the leaf yellowing and dropping issues.
Still not sure what that was???? I thought I saw Whitefly on the leaves....
Thank you so much! Gita
It was Donner (Sally) who provided the link. I can't take credit for that. :)
OK! Thank you donner!!!
Wanted to show you what my bigger (6"pot) satin Mocha looks like...
man! This plant is getting kind of massive with little leaves up and down the stems.
I have to say--no matter what--this one is a robust grower and survivor.
Even the small one under my lights is healthy and towering over all the other Coleus..
My next "must do" is to cut back and re-root all the tips of the miserably
root-bound, leggy Coleus in their tight cell packs...They need water every day!!
Two other plants that always need watering are the Cobra Plant and the big Braz. Plume.
MAN!! can that suck up a lot of water--and always feels dry.
I imagine, being a woody plant--it does need watering often.
Maybe I should cut it back??? I can't see it growing and blooming lush the way it is.
Just looks....yukky! Pic. #3
Some of my streptocarpus blooming recently...
DS-Beloved
DS-Horus
DS-Valkyrie
TsF-Sochi-Chernye Nochi (named after the area where the winter games are being held right now)
Watermelon Wine
Zlata
Halequin Lace
Jules
Red Dawn (yes, it changes color over time)
Spiritual Corridor
Bora
DS-Gotika
Rondul's Kazia
Drako
Midnight Thunder
All hail our Queen of the Streptocarpus, Va Wild Rose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sooooooo beautful.....
My two are resting at the moment
WOW, look at those gorgeous blooms!
Aawww... thanks!
Sally, I'm no queen!
Just after so many years of working on them, I finally have a method that works well for me and my home.
Karen
Woweee WOW those are gorgeous VA!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, sorry, have to agree with Sally -
Queen Of The Streptocarpus!! < =D
Beautiful streps! Wow!
Mine are doing ok, but very few are blooming. I am not doing a good job providing light for them this year :o(.