after overwintering them in my room

yea not as important as vegetable crops but for the people who just like to grow plants...im with you!

every plant that required winter dormancy or is an evergreen has successfully broken bud (two apple trees, 6 or seven kentucky coffee trees, a spiroea, a temperate hibisicus, a pittosproum, and a dwarf euonymous)

thats important because everyday youre kinda bitin your nails and scraping a little bark to make sure your plants are still alive lol

The tropicals and semi-tropicals i had to have indoors over fall and winter include: 2 large Fatshederas, 2 large Acanthus mollis (one of them produced a four foot flowering spike while indoors ) a pink and green leaved alternanthera (also flowered, little inconspicuous flowers), a geranium (also flowered about once a month consistently) a fuchsia (flowered once or twice), some jade plants, two types of kalanchoes (they were probably the poorest adapted to beign indoors) a Sanchezia (horrible aphid pressure while inside) a persian shield (a cutting i made of the plant flowered while indoors, the stock plant did not flower) a piperomia, aeschnanthus, a neptanthus (goldfish plant), and some snake plants

but yea the worst thing about being indoors was the insect pressure...aphids and mealy bugs mainly, aphids were devastating mealy bugs were pretty easy to control

also, the lack of humidity control really hurt some of the plants, liek the aeschynanthus and the kalanchoes and resulted in leaf deformities that will hopefully be rectified

the past two weeks before setting them outside i huddled the plants in front of my open window and subjected them to at least some of the temperatures from outdoors, luckily for me there were some good cold nights so they developed a good cuticle and got used to being in outdoor conditions again

they are now located on a covered deck that provides the kind of microclimate to protect them from hard freezes that inevitably take place in our springs

4/12/2008 7:40:47 PM

congratulations?

4/12/2008 9:03:34 PM

maybe you can learn somethin young boy

4/12/2008 9:05:32 PM

What about cotton?

4/12/2008 11:31:05 PM

My gaydar is pinging.

4/12/2008 11:41:28 PM

i grow cotton at work actually

^is that what that is? i figured it was your head from me stomping your jaw in while applying slow release fertilizer to my geraniums

[Edited on April 12, 2008 at 11:43 PM. Reason : x]

4/12/2008 11:42:23 PM

i gave your mom some slow release fertilizer last night

4/12/2008 11:59:50 PM

bttt cuz no one pays attention to my threads

4/14/2008 10:06:43 PM

chris i pay attention.

oh you so tender

4/14/2008 10:24:09 PM