hey, yall! i have another climbing plant question:
i got some ceropegia cuttings this past winter, and i was told they were called parachute plant which wold make them either ceropegia sandersoniae or ceropegia monteiroae. either way, how do these climb? do they spiral up a support or climb with little root thingys that stick on the support. it is not making any tendrils, so i guess it doesnt use those to climb.... i'm asking this because i need to get some thing for it to climb on, and i want to get the right thing
ceropegia question
it is not a climbing plant, not to me to say the lease. i used to plant them on a hanging pot. when the growth reach a certain length, i cut and start a new hanging plant or add to the original pott to make it look thick. http://www.plantoftheweek.org/week098.shtml
i hang the pot under the canopy of a lemon tree, and they are happy.
really? dis it still bloom for you? i looked in the plantfiles and saw it climbing on some lattice but i didnt know how it climbed, and i dont have enough room for lattice. maybe someonejust put it there...
why bother with extra expenses when u can let it hang down naturally? yes they do bloom. if i am not mistaken, it will be too much work to make it climb, i do not have the patience for that.
oh ok. well i have no where to hang a pot, and i really prefer plants not in hanging pots... not that they arent nice, but i just really dont care for them. also it would be neater in the greenhouse to have it supported and more compact thanto have vines running all over the shelf and taking up precious space
Gosh those are too cool! Lucky you to get such rare plants. Here is a cool site that talks a little bit about how different ones can climb. Good luck with yours!
http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/plants/handbooks/cacti/ceropegias.html
Hi, just to chime in: here is a non-climbing ceropegia, it was sold to me as C. dichotoma.
Interesting yellow flowers.
Very cool.
Here is aother parachute plant, Ceropegia ampliata.
oh how cool. I just got a cutting from a friend. Don't know which one but I haven't killed it yet
Well shoot Donna, find out which one so I can decide if I have to some steal it from you. I want this one too. I just need to figure out where to buy it.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/56431/
LOL Kell Waiting to hear back from Friend I got it from
lady on e-Bay has a bunch of different varieties for sale
LOL Donna, I have Ceropegia as a saved search on there too. I hadn't opend my email from eBay yet. Day after day they always just have that heart one. I wonder if htey will do well here, may not be warm enough.
Kell,
here is a links , perhaps buy?????
ceropegia woodii http://www.cactusshop.com/library/products.aspx if it does not show the exact photo, it is on page 7
Ceropegia ampliata http://www.logees.com/prodinfo.asp?number=R1156-2
Here is a Ceropegia sandersonii I have blooming today. I have found the soil type is important, they do not do well in a regular potting soil that packs. I make my own mixes, but I use something like a loose terrestrial orchid mix with extra shredded fine pine bark added. I also let the stems hang. When they get long I just loop them up around the pot.
Kell, get ur check book or bank card, it will be a difficult choice to pick which one u will buy. here are varieties of them http://toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/garden_catalog/cat.cgi ^_^
i use sand, pumice rock http://www.ohe-chem.co.jp/e_pumice.html or perlite http://www.perlite.net/ if i can not find pumice rock --> this i like the most, cuz it does not float like perlite does. it does not move around, absorb water to plant roots. the sand and pumice combination is love by both cacti and succulents. add a little bonemeal or phosphorus and ur
plant will love u for it.
i ask local nursery to buy some pumice rock for me from Whitney Farms http://www.scotts.com/smg/brand/whitneyFarms/whitneyFarms.jsp?detailId=600012
sand is a natural soil for both cacti and succulents. whereas pumice rock naturally aerate and allow space for the root system to "breath", no sand compaction. hth .... ma vie
Some of the Ceropegias are 'twining plants'. Their stems will twine around almost anything nearby, including other plants.
I have C. haygarthii, and this one in particular likes to twine.
I have a few others, as well, that do not twine - they simply 'hang'.
Kell she said Ceropegia sandersoniaeis. Must be sandersonii as nothing came up with her word
these links sells Ceropegia stapelliformis perhaps if u send them email to let u know when they will have them on stack again... then u will eventually have that plants
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2490150510060632986FGoYHT , http://roses2plant.stores.yahoo.net/cerstapsspse.html , http://www.aridlands.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=686&osCsid=8d51e8396ee5a354263ab0b5b6e36280
Donna, there should be a space between "...... 'sandersoniae'....and ....'is'...... the parachute plant you have and it'll bloom mid-summer. It likes to run too.''
oh cool Sandi
nan, i REALLY like your flower. it looks so cool
that is a really cool one Nan
Too cool, Donna. So you have what popper1 has. I am swooning also for the one Nan has. You lucky duck!!!! Do you grow yours in a green house or inside your house? Just what I need, another collection! Do you find these easy to grow or hard?
MaVie, how lucky you are growing all of these. They look so special.
I grow mine outside all year. The biggest thing is to make sure you have a light, quick-draining soil that hold some moisture.
i think these are pretty easy
lol Kell I just got it last month. I will bring it in for winter
I was really asking Nan and Popper1. I think they have been growing theirs a bit but could be wrong. Good luck with yours, Donna. You have to let us know when it flowers.
I will. Sandi said it should bloom later in summer. I can't wait
Mine are exposed to temps from the 90s to about 30. Being in FL the humidity is very high & it doesnt seen to bother them. I am sure there are more arid growing ones but in your area I wouldnt think that would be a problem at all.
Thanks, folks! The first time it bloomed for me was last year, and only a few blooms, but I was pleasantly surprised!
The blooms are quite large as opposed to those of C. woodii.
You can see in that photo a young stem twining around the flower.
During the winter it has no leaves and is one of those 'beauty in the eyes of the beholder' plants, but I like it.
I grow mine indoors in my south window (very bright and sunny) and keep it rather dry.
Some of them (this one, C. haygarthii, for example) are very easy, and some are not so easy. (Some of those with under-soil bulbils/tubers, for example.)
I've had a few rot over the years by (I'm assuming) being too cold (in that windowsill in the winter) and wet, even though I tried very hard to monitor the watering.
I might have a few cuttings available in the fall. The cuttings aren't exactly 'pretty', though....they just look like green 'sticks'! LOL!