Ayo Ginger

This is the first time this plant has bloomed. Last year it was a little bitty thing.

I like that Roz.

This ginger is not very tall, only about 3 or 4 feet tall. Am I supposed to cut off the stalk when the bloom dies? Seems I read that somewhere.

Yes, cut the stalk after the flower dies.

beautiful Roz. I just got one too

I got mine last year at the N.O. plant show. They will have another sale in about a month. Very inexpensive plants.

I would put the cut stalk in a bucket of water and grow some babies from it..

ely

Doggone, I threw it away. Nearly killed me to cut it off too. I did not even think about trying to root it. I have another bloom now, so I will try to root the next one. There sure is a lot I don't know about gingers. I guess I just assumed that you had to grow them from the rhizome thing.

Roz some hedychiums make baby bulbs on the sold flower spike after blooming.Like alpinnias, I have dark orange red flowered Greenii it sets pups on the flower stems.

I think that jt tells me he pushes his over in a bucket and roots them that way.... I guess he puts a brick on top of them....

ely

so cutting them makes the other ones purg to be bigger... I think I am getting this..

I swallowed a bug while I was vacuming out the car and I think that it has improved my thinking....

I wish I new what bug it was....

ely

That's what happens when you vacuum out your car; that is why I never ever do that.

It sure does look like my Greenii is trying to make a baby right off the top of her head, well, the top of the bloom. I am not cutting it back, just watching it. I guess it the stalk could fall over, it would be like that walking iris. There is so much to learn about gingers, and I sure am enjoying learning. To all be called gingers, there sure is lots of difference in them, more so than colocasia, alocasia and xanthosoma. So which one is the most delicate, the alpinia, or the costa, or does it depend on which particular plant?

Very pretty Roz. I never knew that the cut stalk put in water would make babies. What a good thing to know.

I only like hedy's crucumas and costus... but my costus don't go into the ground untill after I see if janets Live......LOL then there bucket bound for the rest of there life.... LOL

Brugnanny I didn't know that either untill one day I did it and it takes about a month to see the babies on it but it will happen. a frinend of mine also told me you can chop them up like costus and stick them in the ground and keep them wet ..

ely

You can chop costus up?