Don't know what happened to my message, but brought this back up just to show how small a plant, Jean Pasco can be, and still have a lot of huge blooms.
This message was edited Sunday, May 5th 4:01 PM
Jean Pasco
Glory
Feb 01, 2002
Gloria,
That is so cute...I just love Jean Pasco...wouldn't a double like that be nice?
We have got to get Hibiscus to start planting in "BIG" pots though. She would go crazy with a big plant full of those blooms.
Now, Shirley, your'e joshing with me, this is all I had room for last year!! It was little when I first put it in the pot!
Gloria, you will love that one in a big pot. Mine bloomed for a long time and was loaded with blooms. I like to put them all in big pots or in the ground. The ground is going to get a lot of them this year. Running out of pots. :-)
Does Jean Pasco have velvety leaves? I have two cuttings sent to me and both were labelled Jean Pasco with a question mark as the person forgot which one was which. It would be nice to know the proper name of at least one of my cuttings before they even get to bloom size within the next year.
Joydie
Joydie1, mine didn't have velvet leaves. It is a strong grower though and does require some room.
Brugie,
I guess those plants will remain a mystery until them bloom then. They have a rounded leaf and the stems and leaves are very velvety. Its the fastest growing plant that I have and so far has not dropped leaves like the others.
Joydie
Joydie
Don't know where you live, but mine are in the basement for winter, most have no leaves, now, but did check some, Sunray has velvet leaves, yellow/white throat. Seems if I remember correctly, Jean Pasco did not. There are two different Ecuador Pink, one with velvet leaves, one with out, so yours' could be a different strain of J. Pasco, don't give up on them until you see them bloom. Got to wait, I guess.
Hope this helped.
Gloria
Gloria,
Thanks for the post. Gee I guess it may well be a Jean Pasco. I have one little cutting that was labelled Jean Pasco and it did not have velvety leaves. Then I got another cutting from a different person and it had velvety leaves. This Equador Pink that you refer to with the velvety leaves, does it have a special name?
Joydie
Ecuador Pink, can see it on Le Bon Jardinier.
Shhhh.....Don't tell her I sent ya.
Gloria
I have a jean Pasco.......and it is growing at a rapid rate.....has bunches of smooth kind of oval leaves....beautiful plant. Considering how fast all my brugs are growing.I think I will have to plant in the ground also, or else I will be pot poor!!!
Hibiscus..The calyx is the green part of the flower that the Corolla or trumpet part of the flower comes out of.The calyx on Jean pasko is the most inflated of all the brugmansias.it is really large and you can usually identify a lot of Jean Pasko seedling crosses by that trait.
Thanks for that valuable tidbit of information Eclipse.
I have a white series of Jean Pasko brugs very large flowers but look just like the golden parent plant, only they are white flowered.Same flaired blooms and swollen calyx.
What did you neme your white ones, like J. Pasco??
Hibiscus I haven't really named them yet..Just white clone'Jean Pasko
Just thought I'd bring this up again to let you see how small the plant can be and still bloom large blooms.
Hibiscus, I must have missed this the first time around. A very nifty plant....
Hey Gloria, what size pot do you have it in this year? Hope you go larger and can get ten times that many blooms at one time.
Hey, you want her to get spoiled? I think I stored her all winter in that same pot, course I have many more started in other pots.
Think about how many cuttings you can get from a big plant too. :-)
Like WOW! Where will I put any more cuttings? Brugs, either?
There's always room for "BRUGS" or jello. I'm giving my big Pasco to our mailman. I just can't get those roots cut back. My sharp shovel won't even touch them. Need a chain saw. So, since I had rooted cuttings, I'm planting one of them instead.