I got this one for the first time as well..so have no clue about producing seeds...
Clerodendrum incisum-Musical Note Plant
It rooted very easily for me.
This was so charming when I first saw it, made me want one really bad. I found one today at WM for $10.....about 2' tall in a 3gal pot. You never know what you'll find there!! According to the tag it will only take down to 30 so I'll pot it and take it to a friend's greenhouse to winter.
How did you treat the cuttings? Just in a pot or did you keep them in a misting chamber. I need to prune mine but want to start the cuttings. Hard wood or soft?
The one I bought, that bloomed (had buds when i bought it a few weeks ago, has been in a pot w/ morning sun, afternoon shade and all this rain- anyway noticed earlier in the week during a break from the rain, that it has new buds on it so I am happy.
It handles full sun just fine--mine has been in full sun for about a month. Softwood cuttings in germinating mix root really easy--all clerondendrums root really easy. And its a repeat bloomer.
Mine is blooming again!
I just potted about 12 cuttings - it is one of the most popular requests from the garden
Great news...I have some long branches to cut off and I want to put them all over!!!! Thanks.
That's what I did-- especially during this very rainy week here
Is it true that this is one of the 'not so eager' clerodendruns?...that it doesn't go bananas sending runners out and invading?
Might very well be in more tropical climates---ask the person in the Phillipines with it on PlantFiles.
Clerondendrums, at least the ones I know, are all vigorous growers but clerondendrum ugandense is not invasive and hasn't moved from its original position for me in the ground in the 8 years I've owned it. So they are not all invasive. But some of them definitely are.
The only one I have seen with the runners is the Clerodendrum bungei, and yes..I have noticed that 5 feet from where I planted one, another plant appeared...but the others, so far are not so invasive...
I had the Clerodendrun trichotemum (sp?) in Seattle and while it was the envy of the neighbourhood...it started out being very invasive. Constant pulling up of tiny trees slowed it down.
The C. indica and the C. quadrioculare here are rampantly invasive...but they are so lovely....and the dirt is so thin on the lava...doesn't take much to pull them up!!!
Heck...brugmansias could be considered invasive!!! except you DO have to cut the branch off to lay it on the ground...it roots and never misses a beat!!!!
I wish my C quadrioculare was invasive, although I have noticed some rampant growth here. I saw my friends in full bloom when I was in Kauai in March..wow..wow...it was spectacular, and about 8 feet tall.
Ha--- that's the truth about brugmansias. As I have just whacked down my brug forrest, they were all too close together, and not picking up after myself like a good gardner- they are growing everywhere. The ones I have picked up and neatly placed in the mulch bin, are growing..There is a whole tree that grew in the mulch bin. I don't mind though, I keep giving them away to novice gardneres who think they are the ticket. Right now, they have slid on my list as a pestilence attractant. Next year I thin I will be doing some preventive therapy, although here, it's difficult to avoid all the pests.
the one in the ground is blooming again. It also grew about 1 foot, the other section over the last tropical rainy week.
great pic RJ--I just thought the flower on this would be bigger...you really have to point it out to people.
Yes, they are alot smaller. I mean as big as the ugandense gets, the flowers don't get bigger. Although the stocks on the ugandense after the rain, are about a foot long, instead of the little clusters that it usually does.
I was just telling someone that buying plants after seeing picture is deceiving just because of that very reason.
That is still a very cool plant. It's definitely on my "must have" list.
Erick
Did I mention that at the Onomea Botanical Gardens it was pointed out to me as one of the Director's favorite plants in his garden? I am getting a serious crush on this one!!!
Carol
It is a very different plant--but one is enough. I hear there is a small, new pink bungii cultivar, one that's real pretty--probably not suited for hot climates but here it is:
http://www.icangarden.com/neweden/pinkdiamond.htm
It could happily live in a pot for me.
Debbie
This message was edited Jul 11, 2006 12:04 PM
You know...I never knew what they looked like opened until one evening I went out and saw them opened...I like them even better opened...so cool looking.
Yes, they are just as pretty once opened..........here is a pic of mine
That new pink looks like a winner to me. Wonder if it is suited to our miserable weather.
maybe--its a bungii--course that might mean you want to hang yourself from a bungeii cord after trying to make it happy.
good pic...looks like you have a few blooms on there...have you seen it go to seed yet?
My ugandense is growing some berries after the blooms.
Okay Debbie,
those exactly the kind of sites I don't need to see...(great site :)
I tend to buy..
I've grounded myself on plant buying after Jerrys...I spent 99.00 more than I should have.
I have a bungei that is pink, the leaves don't have the varigation though. It is spreading all over the place. And to think I snatched a small bit out an alley whilst walking the dog last summer. I'm still waiting for it to bloom.
I would definitely put it in a pot--all clerodendrums are 'pot bound' with me until a proclamation by the governer is issued that they are not invasive. lol
I thought that was a 'wholesale' site only--but the way I look at it I barely buy any plants except Christmas cactus between Nov and March so I can splurge the other nine months, right? I will usually stop buying stuff when they threaten to turn off the utilities....lol
LOL...yeah...that's where I'm at- My name is actually on the overtime list- a rare appearance indeed.
Not to mention, I have an entire section of growing interesting things from seeds. Right now my Papayas and orchid trees are popping up. I will email you a picture of my first bloom of the solanum wendelli...I think that is the name,
Now the solanum's another interesting group of plants--I have a seaforthiana for you from seed.
I just couldn't resist...my 'Musical Notes' is playing a symphony!!!
I'm so glad you photographed some of them open...I think they are equally as pretty as the "note" portion.
Thanks...I think it is a lovely plant and can't wait for a full BLUSH!
Just to let some people on here know where ya can get one.. My Paradise nursery in Dayton got some of these in... Here is the info about My Paradise nursery...I was asked about where I get some of my plants from...
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/621399/
Great pic Aloha! Mine's blooming right now--but I haven't got that great a camera--but, its a work camera so I can use it for free. You need to get that one in PlantFiles!
Has anyone got this in the ground? I'm still wondering about the invasiveness (can't trust all clero's--lol) and worried about the frost hardiness of the plant. I can wrap it in frost row cover but that can be tedious and get old when North winds blow at 30 mph and of, course its always raining too. Also usually have just put in a 12 hr day and its dark on top of it all. It's easier to take 'heroic' efforts in a pot.
Hey...that is a GOOD shot!
I was told by the Onomea Botanical Gardens folks that it is NOT invasive. HMMMM and can it still be a Clerodendron? Time will tell. I planted 3 2' plants in a prominent place on the new road...so if they want to spread all the better!!!!
Took a bunch of cuttings and they are thriving in a large ziplock bag in the pot. I want to plant them all over!!!
Carol
This message was edited Jul 24, 2006 4:16 PM
MMM...did I do that??? Start this crazy craze about the Muscial Note Clerodendrum???? mmm I just inquired another one..called Clerodendrum wallichi...Beautiful!!! Can't wait for mine to grow up and bloom for me...found it at Paradise nursery in Dayton...
http://www.rareflora.com/clerodendrumwa.htm
Moodene I think you have started something...
For me....C. wallichii is VERY invasive. They grew through 10 gal. pots INTO the ground and started spreading... They are beautiful tho and I love the contrast with the dark green shiney foliage and the white cascading flowers.
I have walichi too- it is a winter bloomer isn't it? I have mine in a pot, and it is growing vigorously.
I also added Clerodendrum calamitosum to my collection this weekend.