Do you grow this plant? tell me about it. I just got some seeds from my pest control guy, an avid gardener himself. His thoughtfulness made my day.
White Bauhinia
I started some last year. I just stick them on the top shelf in the greenhouse, water once a week and forget them. Acidic.. I haven't fertilzed seedlings, but I fertilze larger with azalea and gardenia soluable in spring - usually promotes blooms, although for the white ones have not reached the bloom level yet.. As a rule of thumb I think Bauhinias are more desert plants and take about 20 percent of the normal watering of most other potted plants.
I was at Buchanons today and saw "a white Bauhinia" which appears to be Mountain Ebony, Pegunny, White bauhinia Bauhinia hookerii, Lysiphyllum hookerii, the flowers are numberous and very small. The white one I was growing is larger flowers Kalahari White Bauhinia.
I wonder which white one you have? Are the leaves numerous and small ?
Rj
No pictures, Rj? I want to see pictures. LOL
LOL, they are scrawny little guys right now...but this is the picture from Tops where I bought the seeds from
http://oranjerievereniging.nl/fotos/Bauhinia_140.JPG
I haven't grown this one but I've started a number of other bauhinias from seed--I use bottom heat and find that most of them germinate pretty readily. But my success rate on keeping them alive after germination is considerably lower than it is for the other tropical trees/shrubs that I start from seed--not sure if it's me or if it's the plant!
It's water...don't water them very much. Think about the other seedlings and how often you water them- then take the precentage down 20 percent as often- If new seeds are languishing , find a nice dry high shelf, and place them up there for a week or so, you will see improvement. I water the plants that are about 6- 12 inches every 1.5 weeks, depending on heat and wind conditions. Basically, if there is a side to error on...be it the dry side.
Rj
Ironically, here is the very first bloom of the pink Bauhinia. This tree is in a pot, and the blooms are small.
I learned the hard way abou the Bauhinia...I finally figured it out, when I came accross a nursery with the word Desert in the title, and they had a few Bauhinias. I was loosing several seedlings that were about a year hold at the time, so that's when I put them on the high shelf in the green house. I lost about half, but the others perked up after a week. The drier they got, the perkier they got.
Ecrane..did I ask you about a chalice vine? I had photo and question.
Unfortunately I've lost some to drying out as well as some to probably too much water, guess I need to find a happy medium! I think the ones that dried out were also getting too much sun/heat while they were still small so maybe I need to find a slightly cooler location.
And no, you didn't ask me about a chalice vine--I've never grown those though so I don't know how much help I'd be!
Yes, me too. took a picture of one..it was a white bauhinia. I am thinking that it will come back. It stands to reason that if they are a bit of a arid weather plant, that It has the ability to cope with extended dry spells...