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« Reply #60 on: July 12, 2011, 09:13:18 AM » |
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« Reply #61 on: July 12, 2011, 10:46:34 AM » |
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Wow Lynette, your VD is crazy!
Lou, loving the Tigerama! Mine has a tiny bud on it. I should bring all my plants to your house for some shade. Man o man! They are all turning lime green and some leaves are yellowing... Is that because of the stress of the heat? There are no bugs, im sure of that. Any suggestions? Should I just get them into mostly shade till this madness is gone? Love New England!
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« Reply #62 on: July 12, 2011, 03:23:54 PM » |
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Wow Lynette, your VD is crazy!
Lou, loving the Tigerama! Mine has a tiny bud on it. I should bring all my plants to your house for some shade. Man o man! They are all turning lime green and some leaves are yellowing... Is that because of the stress of the heat? There are no bugs, im sure of that. Any suggestions? Should I just get them into mostly shade till this madness is gone? Love New England!
Kristen I noticed that the first or second round of buds on my plants were prone to discoloring and falling off before opening. As the plants have strengthened and hit their stride the buds are now staying on a majority of the time. For example my Hot Pepper and Vin Beaujolais just started blooming recently and they are still experiencing quite a few lime green to yellow buds that fall off (maybe 20% make it to opening as of today). Again the booster has helped improve this also. I pick them all up ASAP and expect this to get better as the season goes on and our plants get into a good groove. Hope this helps...Farmer D |
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« Reply #63 on: July 12, 2011, 03:32:35 PM » |
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Lynette those are just gorgeous blooms. Kristen is right about your VD - the colors are unreal!!! Same with your Bon Temps - such strong colors for that CV. John your HV & CH are beautiful together. CH really is a dream bloom as the magenta bleeds away into the whiteness... I apologize for all the pics, I'm trying to limit it to one per CV now but it's really tough... Flickering Flame - what a beauty!   Look very closely you will see a special visitor under the bloom - more pics to come...  FF Quads  Midsummer Night  Surf City   Daisy Mae  Tahitian Bronze Radiance (2nd Day)   Vin Beaujolais - getting darker!!  The Path  Acapulco Gold  A view from AG at 4 feet up  Hot Pepper  All That Jazz  Farmer D |
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« Reply #64 on: July 12, 2011, 03:34:37 PM » |
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Mine have been doing the same thing since we had the 100 degree weather last week...i have also sprayed spinosad just in case some are caused from thripes..I hate bugs  |
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« Reply #65 on: July 12, 2011, 03:38:44 PM » |
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darren I just ordered hot pepper...thanks to your beautiful pics...I could'nt resist...I hope it likes the sun cause it will get it most of the day...and I luv that tahitian bronze...where did you get it from?...thanks
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« Reply #66 on: July 12, 2011, 03:53:02 PM » |
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Darren, Its not the buds that are turning color... I don't have buds! ARG! Its the foliage thats turning. They are in such shock I think that they aren't even thinking about making buds. But I agree with you, I think it is the sudden super hot heat we are having. Is that your situation? Lynette, you too? Its frustrating. I started using HVH houseplant fert with every other watering which is a big change for me as I only fertilized once a week. I also potted up a few today. Some of the worst were a little bit potbound. Could that be it too?
On the other hand, I got my first bloom off of Gator Pride. And its unique... The first is later in the day, the second is when it first opened. I know, backwards....
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« Reply #67 on: July 12, 2011, 03:53:25 PM » |
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Lynette the sun and Hot Pepper are made for each other, its my number 1 in the sun, think High Voltage but better.
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« Reply #68 on: July 12, 2011, 03:53:57 PM » |
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Darren, I ment to say great display! I love all of them! Don't know which one is nicer then the other.
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« Reply #69 on: July 12, 2011, 04:09:41 PM » |
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Kristen I was not joking the other week when I said why change? your Saffron was a beauty and that didn't happen for no reason, the Gator Pride is also stunning and a change of fert over 1 week will not make that happen.
You are bound to get a little bit of transplant shock, then add that to your fert change then yellow leaves I think are a near certainty.
I will say again about your Gator, what an absolute beuty, I had one once and it never looked like that.
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« Reply #70 on: July 12, 2011, 04:43:23 PM » |
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Darren, Its not the buds that are turning color... I don't have buds! ARG! Its the foliage thats turning. They are in such shock I think that they aren't even thinking about making buds. But I agree with you, I think it is the sudden super hot heat we are having. Is that your situation? Lynette, you too? Its frustrating. I started using HVH houseplant fert with every other watering which is a big change for me as I only fertilized once a week. I also potted up a few today. Some of the worst were a little bit potbound. Could that be it too?
Sorry I read your post incorrectly there. Be really careful with the fertilizer - my experience has been what Chris stated recently that the hibs will take in more fertilizer as the temps increase and it is easy to get fert burn fast. I have cut way back on my fert and booster since it finally got warm here and a handful of my smaller plants and potted ones showed burning on leaf edges (in ground ones have much different results for sure). I'm also amazed at how easily hibs can get overwatered too. My potted ones are on my porch with an intense afternoon sun when hot and the soil SEEMS to dry out so quickly and so I'd water them and they would get super lime green, veiny looking - almost transparent some of them. So last week I repotted a couple to bigger pots and when I removed them I saw how the bottom third of the soil was soggy while the top was dry. Even with well draining soil I'm wondering what else I should have in there. I added a little cactus mix to it and mix it up to increase drainage and even out things a little more hopefully. Check yours to see if that might be the case too - which for me was a potbound issue as well. Maybe someone can invent a transparent pot that doesn't let the sun dry it out so easily and then we can see... I know it's tough but be patient...the weather this year has been a real challenge for everyone. My biggest mistakes and weakness is not being patient enough and taking too much action causing more problems. Add a little booster when it isn't too hot and see if they green up more if your soil isn't soggy down low in your pots. Farmer D |
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« Reply #71 on: July 12, 2011, 04:47:38 PM » |
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Lynette the sun and Hot Pepper are made for each other, its my number 1 in the sun, think High Voltage but better.
Ditto on what David said, it will do amazingly well. By the way David, your Hot Peppers are the best period. HP perfection!!! Farmer D |
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« Reply #72 on: July 12, 2011, 05:05:12 PM » |
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Louis it's nice to see Jolanda Gommer. I am very interested in that CV as it is extensively used with many of the Tahitian CVs to create new crosses. Apparently the layers of rings and combination of swirling colors combine well with the Tahitians among others.
I've got several dozen seeds planted many of which are Tahitians x JG. We'll see if that holds true...
Lynette there are several growers online that do sell Tahitians including HVH (Tahitian Princess recently). I will not tell you of the months of craziness I went through to get some of the more hard to find ones (phone bill is still recovering). T Bronze Radiance has pretty blooms on a three foot twig with a few leaves. Some of these CVs need Charlie's hybridizing badly.
And I super appreciate how HVH ships there plants too...try bare root hibiscus being shipped in early spring via air freight. They're now just coming out of shock 4 months later...and four died!!!
You only live once though...Farmer D
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« Reply #73 on: July 12, 2011, 05:19:04 PM » |
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ok...I just got a small T princess....thanks..darren.............david thankyou...your HP is georgeous....
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« Reply #74 on: July 12, 2011, 06:01:26 PM » |
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hi kristen,
on your plants, they are much too hot. i have found that hibiscus thrive very well in mostly shade, especially dappled shade. until the deer ate all of mine, i had them under the shade of the old apple tree, they only received late afternoon sun from 4 to sunset., and they were growing like crazy.
in my greenhouse, they are doing very well. i have a 60 percent shade cloth covering the greenhouse, which means that the plants only get 40 percent of the sun, when its out.
shade them up and you will find that they will recover nicely. also they like to be sprayed every day, preferably in the morning around 10 am'ish.
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