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« Reply #30 on: March 05, 2012, 06:37:41 PM » |
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Hi everyone, Its difficult to keep up with all the great photos you are posting. May I give a blanket WOW to everyones blooms. I have a new hybrid cross open today. Its a cross between Moonstruck and June's Joy. Its a good size bloom at 7 inches. Bush is about 3 feet and quite full with huge glossy leaves. These photos show the color fairly accurate. The outer petals are a salmon/orange, and with a large red throat. I have one more cross due to open tomorrow. We'll see it its worth a photo. Coments welcome. Louis    
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« Reply #31 on: March 05, 2012, 07:00:28 PM » |
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I'm gonna have to second Louis' blanket WOW! Great blooms and both seedlings from CT are very nice. Congratulations to Louis and Kristen! Feb was a strange month here as the weather was more like winter but still pretty mild but my plants are really hitting a low point. Blooms still lasting almost a week and the colors have gone back to pale and winterized. Now I'm toying with adding iron and spraying some quelant-k for the first time so that has not made my plants any happier. Maybe March is the low point here in So Cal as I remember last winter my plants all perked up in April. We'll see.... Thank God for Prosperity...even though the plant is not at it's best the blooms are just amazing. Big and super colorful now. Easily some of the best blooms I ever had here. Also enjoy my thrips ravaged Acapulco Gold (I sprayed yesterday) and my first Cosmic Gold in ages which is really dark of course.   Farmer D
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« Reply #32 on: March 05, 2012, 09:51:28 PM » |
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Great seedling Louis. Beautiful Prosperity Darren! Wow that one is spectacular!! Erny, thanks for sharing those today, some interesting ones. I don't have any doubles. Chris, as far as fertilizing, I have only used HVH houseplant formula all winter long on all the plants at my parents house. Nothing else. Everyone but this messed up seedling has big lush beautiful green leaves of regular shape and all are healthier and happier then ever. This one has always showed strange leaf shape towards the top of the plant... not like Charlie's Fascinating Foliage plants. Just not normal. And when I saw the funky bloom, I wasn't surprised. Do you think its just the seedling? Do you think it will shape up? Or a throw away? Thanks for the help.
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« Reply #33 on: March 06, 2012, 05:08:32 AM » |
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Kristen, your CH seedling is still looking bright and pretty. The other one is a mystery. If it's not genetic or a virus then it should improve on its own. I've seen similar effects from pesticide overdoses or weed killer spray drift. If fertilizer minerals get out of balance that can cause strange effects, too. You just have to wait and see what happens with it. Colors suggest Space Oddity which can be wild itself.
Beautiful Prosperity flowers, Darren! I think you may be right that March is the low point of hibiscus growing outdoors in southern California. When we hit the equinox later in March the days are 12 hours and growing longer which has always seemed to me to mark the point where hibiscus take off again.
Lou, I like the look of that seedling. The form is very good and the colors do not remind me of any other cultivar that we are growing. Unique is always good in a seedling!
Erny, you are showing that Hot Southern Nights is a very flexible variety. Blooming young and cold for you and blooming in hot tropics for David. I think you will find that Pinot Noir is a good bloomer, too. You may want to let your Sparkling Waters grow naturally this summer and then prune it hard. When I did that last summer I got an excellent branching response that gave me a full bush instead of the 2-3 tall stems that Sparkling Water made before.
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« Reply #34 on: March 06, 2012, 07:32:18 AM » |
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Hi Guys,
glad you like the new seedling, it looks like it will be at least a two day bloom.
Kristen, i have had a couple of my new seedlings open like yours. one was a cross between purple magic and wild grape. after 4 blooms opening line that, I tossed it out.
if you have the room, keep it until at least summer to see what it does.
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« Reply #35 on: March 06, 2012, 08:29:01 AM » |
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David, I water them thoroughly all 3 times. Most of my big plants are in 2 gallon pots. I think your pots are bigger which should help. I recently found some nice deep 3 gallon pots, so I will move my biggest plants into them soon. Your humidity is even higher than here. WOW! The humidity rises to 90% at night here and then slowly drops to 60% in the afternoon. The temps during the summer usually go from the mid 70s at night to the mid 90s in the afternoon. Last summer was brutal though. We had 45 days of temps over 100.
A more normal look for Frappuccino today. And a pair of Cindy's Heart.
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« Reply #36 on: March 06, 2012, 12:27:28 PM » |
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David, I water them thoroughly all 3 times. Most of my big plants are in 2 gallon pots. I think your pots are bigger which should help. I recently found some nice deep 3 gallon pots, so I will move my biggest plants into them soon. Your humidity is even higher than here. WOW! The humidity rises to 90% at night here and then slowly drops to 60% in the afternoon. The temps during the summer usually go from the mid 70s at night to the mid 90s in the afternoon. Last summer was brutal though. We had 45 days of temps over 100.
A more normal look for Frappuccino today. And a pair of Cindy's Heart.
Nice John, Frappuccino is one of my favourites photo's to look at. I know it gets very hot for you, I may have mentioned before that I have a very close friend who lives in Allen Texas and she says it gets hotter there than Nha Trang. I have many pots sizes but I like best the deeper 3 gallon one, I have 10 of them, I find that's big enough to get a good size Hibiscus but not to big that they would take over the garden.
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« Reply #37 on: March 06, 2012, 04:51:21 PM » |
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I have been very busy the last few days prepairing the garden and making room for all the seedlings I am going to grow, the first photo shows my cuttings at the very front, I am going to try and grow these without direct sun, they are under an overhang and get just an hour a day through a side pane of glass, the second photo shows my Adeniums now in the middle of the garden to create room round the side, I think they do make a nice centrepiece mind and no worry with the sun.
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« Reply #38 on: March 06, 2012, 06:34:46 PM » |
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Beautiful Prosperity flowers, Darren! I think you may be right that March is the low point of hibiscus growing outdoors in southern California. When we hit the equinox later in March the days are 12 hours and growing longer which has always seemed to me to mark the point where hibiscus take off again.
Charlie
Thanks for your input regarding this. Seems to be right on with what I am seeing so far. Yesterday 82 F and beautiful, today 57 F cloudy, cold and windy. Poor plants! David I have an interesting observation that you of all people can relate to. On Sunday it was 87 F here so I decided to put a thermometer on the top of the soil for my one potted hib (Caribbean Beauty) and WOW it read 120 F at 3pm. I had no idea it got that hot on just a warm day. I'll be buying some drop down shades for the front porch for sure before summer. Got 9 blooms today on SLIH - this one really is becoming a super bloomer. Farmer D
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« Reply #39 on: March 06, 2012, 06:39:26 PM » |
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Black Dream has 12 open blooms today. Perfect for a cloudy day!
Cosmic Gold opened all the way - orange in winter seems to be it's look...
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« Reply #40 on: March 06, 2012, 07:20:43 PM » |
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David I have an interesting observation that you of all people can relate to. On Sunday it was 87 F here so I decided to put a thermometer on the top of the soil for my one potted hib (Caribbean Beauty) and WOW it read 120 F at 3pm. I had no idea it got that hot on just a warm day. I'll be buying some drop down shades for the front porch for sure before summer. Farmer D [/quote] Darren I think a lot of people don't realise that the temperatures quoted on weather forecasts etc is for air temperature in the shade, out under the sun it can be ferocious heat, I did the same as you with Hot Pepper which is up against a wall and in full sun and it was 147f, still bloomed ok though.
Funny thing is I could never understand why the main weather channels always show Nha Trang as between 84 and 87f, I know that's not right then I found out that they take the readings from a meter that's in the temperature controlled lounge at the airport, haha only in Vietnam.
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« Reply #41 on: March 06, 2012, 07:49:07 PM » |
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Saffron looking nice just before the sun hits it.
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« Reply #42 on: March 07, 2012, 10:05:07 AM » |
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Very pretty, all! Your blooms are keeping me going this winter while I wait for spring to hurry up and get here!
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« Reply #43 on: March 07, 2012, 12:23:15 PM » |
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David, I wondered why weather.com always showed the temp for Nha Trang in the mid 80s.
Here is a pic of one of my FF bushes - Jungle Fire Love the foliage and should get my first bloom within a week.
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« Reply #44 on: March 08, 2012, 05:13:02 AM » |
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Nice photo, John D! You can really see the different leaves of Jungle Fire. I'll be very interested to see how big it grows for you in Houston during the coming summer.
Charlie
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