I was just thinking about you when I was watering some plants. Here is Not Pink Favorite. Thank you for sending me a start of it. One of my favorite shots from two years ago. Sending big ((( hugs ))) your way.
Paging Gloria- Hibiscus......
Oh Kristi -- what a yummy looking brug! Love that color, and its a beautiful shot!
I'm here Kristi. That is one beautiful brug. You gave me my start, so glad I had it to give back . We'll enjoy it together!
Ditto on what Gretchen said!!
Great Shot, Kristi !!!! It makes the long wait for spring just a tiny bit easier :)
Thanks for sharing it with all of us.
Beautiful Kristi and Gloria!!!!!! Very pretty and a super photo, love the angle!!!
Whew! that is a good looker!
HI Gloria! I've missed you Thanks ladies. I do love this photo! This plant performed so good that season. The color was something else. Gloria was so sweet to send me a start after I killed mine.
Howdy Root. Where have you been hiding? It's nice to see you too.
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Hi yourself, dear friend.........
Yikes! Is that a SPIDER on last pic? Did I send that?
Ok, Gloria, I want one of these. lol
Is it fragrant?
Me, too, Alice. Isn't it a beauty.
I loved this one when I had it. Lost mine too ... I did send out cuttings, but not sure if anyone still has it. Can't wait to see more photos this summer Kristi & Gloria.
Just beautiful!....thank you for sharing the pics....such a happy, elegant flower!
Jackie
I like the 'elegance' most of all (o:
Alice
It's a spider Gloria. I love taking pictures of bugs. LOL Waterloo- I bought this plant from the same gal you did. I only had it one season and I didn't bring it in on time. Here is a day picture with bees. If I remember correctly it only opened up at night for me.
** as soon as mine gets big again I'll be happy to send some cuttings out **
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Wow Kristi. Kell, eat your heart out, if that isn't a big red, don't know what is!
Alice, thought you were getting that one from somebody else? Cutting is yours' if you want it, will send with the other rooted brug, whenever spring arrives.
Deb, always wanted one of yours with the long leaves. Do not know where any of the "real" Pink Favorites are, or even if they are in US? This one is good enough for me.
beautiful Kristi. Love the pic
LOL Gloria! I think I will save my heart for now. I had this one and it just would not get dark. It looked like a frosty! I was so sad!! These pics are just so great.
Gloria, what is the "real" Pink Favorite?? I think I have PF, but I bet it's not "real", ya think???
Kell- it was the fish poop water and water plants :) I just know it. That year I had such beautiful colors on all of my brugs. Last year they didn't have the color like the year before.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh how pretty!
Kristi, you can really take great picture's, it captured the color wonderfully!!!! Isn't that the reddest brug seen yet? I've seen some posted but not this dark, WOW!
I'm no expert by far, but maybe this one likes the cooler weather instead of the heat perhaps??? eh??? That's beautiful Kristi, put me on the list , Stunning!
Julie
Julie the color isn't as red/orange as the night I took the pictures- I wish it was. During the day it stayed closed but you could see the pretty dark pink color. I'm telling you, it was a great seaons for growing brugs that year.
Kell and some others: Is it possible you got a different Pink Favorite? I do think we in the north get deeper colors because of the cooler weather. This is why we evaluate our seedlings, to see color, if bothered by insects, good blooming, etc., in various parts of the country.
Loved your pics Kristi!
Kristi, I wish someone bottled and sold fish poop!!! I need it. Maybe I need a new best friend that has fish. LOL! Maybe I can find one.
Gloria, do you mean you get darker colors because of WARMER temps? I think I get lighter pinks because of my cooler temps. LOL! Who knows!! But I do not get any humidity like you all do and my temps in the summer are ususally in the 70s.
No, it was that one Gloria, the pics of it were incredible and then it frostied in my yard over 2 years. As I recall, I think Shirley might have had the same problem.
Woe was me!!
I got my cutting from Kristi and it did just as Kell said. Another Frosty bloom for me. I never had anything near dark on it and mine grew and bloomed more like an insignis than anything. I know we discussed this a couple of years ago. I was envious then and I'm still envious. Very pretty blooms Kristi.
Fish poop Ladies, Fish poop! :) Start digging and put in a little pond. Or better yet get some whiskey barrels and put some small fish in them. Dip out the water and water your very special plants. Kell & Shirley, mine never did get the frosty look. I know Waterloo had a deep pink color too. Odd isn't it?
Oh well....there will be another that will make us just as happy, I'm sure. Thanks Kristi...with all of my trees here, I don't want to deal with a fish pond. I'd be cleaning it out every day. LOL!
I had sent cuttings to Kell & Shirley too. I know Shirley said it was light when it flowered for her and Kell's was hidden behind many other ones. Susie, I believe got a cutting also. The other cuttings went south and have not heard how they did. I know mine had some really great color to it ... it was so pretty! Wonder what it would have done had I used fish poop?
Maybe it was you I got it from but you guys got it from the same source. It sure didn't do well for me, no matter where it came from. That part I do remember. It had lots of blooms, but nothing dark and they didn't open well either, kind of like Kristi's one picture. I sure had high hopes for that one too.
I have a goldfish tank, and they are reputed to be very dirty little fish, hmmmmmmm, do you think that would work?? LOL
Jackie
I have a fountain - would it work if I put some goldfish in it and use the water on the plants???
Sherry,,,we're too much! Jackie
the lurker speaks ....
If you're keeping fish in any kind of container then you need to be doing regular water changes. Siphon water into a 5gal bucket or milk jugs or whatever, but DON'T throw it away. Use that with or without extra fertilizer at least on your houseplants and seedlings and they will love you for it. So will the fish because you'll be more regular with the partial water changes.
Many times Goldfish are labeled as dirty fish because they do produce alot of amonia. In an established tank, bowl, fish pond, container or whatever, there are 2 types of bacteria that get establish on everything and break the amonia down to nitrites and the nitrites down to nitrates which are not toxic to fish unless in really high concentrations. Those nitrates and any detritus you siphon out of the gravel are liquid gold for your plants.
Another benefit is that the water having cycled means the chlorine has evaporated and if you use charcoal in your filters, other undesirables are removed as well. You're getting closer to rainwater (which is good) plus the natural fertilizer.
Hahaha, Jackie, we are on the same track too - the bowl of my fountain is black, so I'm gonna see if it works!!! But, I'm not positive why fish water would be any better than fish fertilizer, which I already have. I'll have to buy goldfish and food if I do it in the fountain...
fish fertilizer is made from fish (take one huge blender and throw in the fish)
fish water is made 'by' fish containing their waste broken down by the biological filter that gets established.
8ft, this has both good and bad inplications for me.
My dh has the responsibility of water changes, water quality testing etc. For the most part, he's pretty regular with everything, although there was an incident just before christmas where Darth Maul, a shebunkin goldfish, was literally on death's door due to poor water quality, but I digress.
If I mention to Marco the use of the "poop water" for plants, part of me is afraid that I will have to take over the cleaning process, including that festive contraption, the syphon. I feign ignorance, which heretofore, has gotten me out of the "dirty work."
However, in the interest of growing top-quality plants, I wouldn't be entirely adverse to learning, or at least taking over the bucket after the water change. Better that it goes on the plants than down the drain. Gives me something to really think about here.
Thanks very much!!
Jackie
PS, Darth Maul made a miraculous recovery on Chritmas Eve, it was really something, like a Frank Capra movie.
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Either way, I got it!!! lol Thanks, 8ft, now I understand it too...
Hellobebe- you are too funny. Your post had me laughing! Hi 8ftbed thanks for the info.
Jackie - when DH is gone, stick a piece of hose in the tank and siphon off a few gallons then casually remind him he needs to top of the tank. You know it's so dry in the winter you have more evaporation... or something.
If you've got some of your brugs near a door this summer (and your aquarium isn't in the basement) just get a long hose - stick it in your tank and close the lid so it doesn't slide out - then walk the end of the hose out the door and start the suction. Let it drain on to your brugs or whatever is close!!
You are so sneaky 8ftbed, just my kind of person! LOL
Well, California started putting something in the water that kills fish a few years ago. So It would be a lot of extra work doing it here. I think you have to let it sit at least 24 hours before you use it. I could be lying here. At any rate, sadly I can't even take care of myself much less some fish.
Maybe Candy will start a fish poo business!! LOL
This was my Pink Favorite Not! It never got darker. I remember it was the year I thought I had some real Euro winners and they all bloomed Frosty! LOL
