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notmartha Bay City, MI(Zone 6a) Nov 17, 2007

i got one of the begonias from a spring co-op
Now that its cold what do i do
grow as a house plant?
cut back and store?
help!

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velmansia Antioch, TN Nov 17, 2007

notmartha, we are in the same zone and begonia has to come in for the winter. The waxy- leaf kind I leave because they are very inexpensive and common. The unusual ones you will need to pot and bring inside. You will need adequate amount of light and not much watering.

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WeeNel Ayrshire Scotland, United Kingdom Dec 01, 2007

All begonias in your zone will be too tender to make it past the first frost or really cold night, if it is the foliage type, bring it indoors and care for as an indoor plant but, keep it on the drier side, just enough water to stop it rotting or dying. If it is the flowering type, you have 2 choices, either keep it growing as a house flowering plant and dead head it each time the flowers fade to encourage new flowers, if it is healthy and blooming, give it a liquid feed every 2 weeks till it stops flowering then care for it as the foliage plants indoors, Or once the flowers are past, let the soil dry out, once the foliage has gone yellow/brown, cut it off right down at the base, then just water enough so that the tuber dont dry and shrivel up, or remove the tuber and store it for next year after you have cut the foliage away, keep it or the pot in a coolish frost free place, then next spring/early summer, you will see tiny little green or red spots start to show on the tuber, that is the time to give it a bit more light and warmer conditions, you need to give a little water till it really gets growing again, then treat it as a new plant and as you have done this year. If you end up with just the tuber, replant it very shallow on top of the new compost till the leaves start to form and always plant the tuber with the round end in the soil or the hollow side uppermost, the tubers look like round withered bulbs, but have a hollow bit in the center, that hollow bit is the top and where the new growth will come from around the hollow, hope all this helps you out and you get a nice plant for next year. good luck. WeeNel.

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