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« Reply #90 on: July 31, 2017, 07:08:09 PM » |
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« Reply #91 on: July 31, 2017, 07:11:06 PM » |
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« Reply #92 on: July 31, 2017, 07:17:53 PM » |
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« Reply #93 on: July 31, 2017, 07:21:17 PM » |
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« Reply #94 on: July 31, 2017, 07:26:05 PM » |
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2nd Midnight Confession bloom
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« Reply #95 on: July 31, 2017, 07:32:37 PM » |
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« Reply #96 on: July 31, 2017, 08:56:08 PM » |
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Yes David TPP has insane color bands that green is my favorite blooms looking good.
11 bloom wow Darren!
Darren what I like about posting and looking at everyone's post is how we learn from each other and see how the different conditions effect everyone's flowers.
For sure you seeing many blues, purple's, greys because it's a preference that I have and those colors seem to do well in my conditions. Tropical colors are great but they are not my preference and my past conditions did not favor tropical flowers or CV's that intensify in the sun so passed on those colors.
I forgot to mention I use a a garden hose or plain tap water without any fertilizer some of the time. This year I set it up that way so I don't need to fertilize all the time. Early in the season I added little time release fertilizer, castings, rock minerals, kelp, compost, microbes when I transplanted so I can be lazy over the summer and water with a garden hose or plain water.
It is extremely bright in my conditions now. The reflected sunlight is overpowering. I can't go outside from 8am-3pm without sunglasses because it's crazy bright.
You can see in some of my recent photos by the 2nd day the flowers are toasted even on partly sunny days.
I have some blueprints made up for a nice long 2 step bench that will have a canopy over top to filter the sun from my old living room sheers. The bench with canopy will go outside so I can put more hibiscus outside and get them out of the direct sun.
I definitely agree with you about lots of water in the summer. The only thing is my plants need to be somewhat mature with multiple branches 1-3ft long before I can go crazy with watering. It could take 2 years to get them to that point and it's only for a few months of that much water.
Wow Factor has a blue body and a yellow edge. Where the blue and yellow meet, it turns green but only in certain conditions or later in the day as if fades. Daylight will make it appear washed out.
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« Reply #97 on: July 31, 2017, 09:02:50 PM » |
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« Reply #98 on: July 31, 2017, 09:08:46 PM » |
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Here is an example of 3 different photos taken within 10 mins of each other.
Different light conditions change the way the colors look on Wow Factor.
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« Reply #99 on: July 31, 2017, 10:19:54 PM » |
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Kyle I couldn't agree with you more. What I most recently learned is that exotic hibiscus are energy hogs. Kyle I would be curious to hear your opinion about this. I have talked with some growers of tropical plants and they have said that among the plants they grow exotic hibs are the most hungry for feeding. My take on this is that they want lots of energy but the form of it can vary from the fertilizers we feed them to the heat and sunlight they get naturally. It really depends on where you live and how you provide it to them. For example if I lived in Florida where the sun is super intense and lots of humidity and rain I would not need to feed my plants much. In fact one grower there tells me he seems to get better results when he leaches his soil with water and backs off on the feeding. Here in So Cal with our mild climate and less intense sun I find that feeding outdoors is critical until the warm months of summer kick in. This year that started the last week of June. Since then I can back off on the heavy feedings as the plants are now getting a lot of energy from the ambient heat and sun.
And yes you can take multiple angles of a single bloom and get many different looks with each photo. My goal is to get the truest look to what my eyes see. I prefer having shade behind a bloom to best see the bloom colors. What I also love is taking photos of blooms in full sunlight as not many people do that. To see that shiny almost wet look on the petals is always amazing to me.
Good stuff Kyle!
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« Reply #100 on: July 31, 2017, 10:25:58 PM » |
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Meteor Shower is one cultivar that I think flies under the radar of most. It is one of my favs as the blooms are huge and the colors are very intense. The splashing jumps out at you and then that hot pink eye is very striking.
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« Reply #101 on: July 31, 2017, 10:30:57 PM » |
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Heartache is quickly becoming one of my favs now...
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« Reply #102 on: July 31, 2017, 10:37:34 PM » |
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« Reply #103 on: July 31, 2017, 10:39:25 PM » |
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