Roof top in Vietnam.

Part 3.Well things are really going well for me and I am still enjoying learning the joys of growing Hibiscus. Not sure if I would have got this far and been successful without the help of this forum. No matter what problem I face or if there is something I need to learn someone has been challenged before and someone has given good advice. I read this forum every day, apart from the Botany and Hybridizing [that’s way over my head at the moment], maybe in a couple of years ha ha.I have managed my first graft and its growing well and I look to have a few cuttings that maybe a success.
Of course now I am hooked on this hobby I needed more room, so I have created a rockery which I have placed 8cv's, this then left me with room to buy and grow more plants.
The pictures will show my rockery and the empty pots waiting for my new plants, the pictures show the pots are all 8 inch yellow plastic [some sank in the ground and some sank in pots]. This has been quite a job and there a few reasons for putting them all in the same size pot and it being plastic, firstly they can easily be interchanged around the garden depending on how they grow and can easily be turned so that when i am sat in my lounge I can view the blooms. Then another major factor for 8 inch pots was the expense of the care products [fertilizer worm castings pest control ect], although everything is a very reasonable price to buy I have to have them shipped to Vietnam which is not cheap, Huge thank you now to Cindy for the help and advice, what seemed a good idea at the time of ordering [50 dollars for 2 large bags of worm castings] turned into nearly 400 dollars with postage, an e-mail from Cindy soon had me ordering 1 bag and thankful I had only 8 inch pots.
But the overriding reason for 8 inch plastic is Spider Mites., they must love the hot dry weather which I have here for 9 months a year. I will shortly have about 30 cv’s and rather than constantly spraying them with pesticides I am going to try showering every one of them at the bottom of the garden every 5 days, with them being in a plastic pot they will be much easier to lift and transport around, so far I have been doing it for 3 weeks with the 15 I have already and the Mite problem is well under control.
Well that’s about it for the time being, I am now just waiting on my new plants to arrive and see what joys they will bring, I still cant believe that 2 years ago I had not as much as planted a seed, now I am grafting ,growing cuttings and could have a conversation about NPK and know what I am talking about ha ha.I used to spend my time strolling under the palm trees on the beach and reading a good book, I have no time for that now, I have started pruning and am still trying to figure out this pinching business.