Summarize YOUR general rose care, please!
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Some general questions about care and variety.
Comments (8)Answers to questions: 1. Yes, but don't put in full sun immediately. The plant needs some time to get used to full sun. 2. Yes 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 I keep about 2 pups plus the mother plant. The mother plant will grow faster with fewer pups. 3.4 If the plant is small enough in the pot, I would up pot it and find where the pups are attached to the mother and cut closest to the mother corm making sure you get enough roots for the pup to survive. 4. Fertilizer seems ok but I grow my bananas in the ground and feed them any kind of fertilizer I have hanging around. 5.3 gallon pot should last a year. 6.Can't help with the overwintering question as I don't have to grow my bananas in a pot. I do know you should reduce watering and eliminate fertilizer during the winter. Steve...See MoreHelp with Desert Rose seedling care please
Comments (3)hi there, I also started some DR from seeds about 6 mths ago and it has been particularily easy. now i understand you live in different zone and area than i do here in florida but this is what i did (do): after sprouting i gave them a little bit of sun, increasing the amount weekly until they are right by the window. I fertilize about 3 weeks after sprouting, and began hardeining them off at about 8 weeks. My little ones are doing great and out of 20 seeds 7 are big and healthy and beautiful. I plant in a fast draining all purpose cactus and succulent mix. I check the soil daily and if it is too dry i give a little water but never ever too much. Over watering your little babies will cause two things to happen ( i learned this the hard way ) it will cause dampening off, and cause the plant to die and also they will drop all leaves ( when older and larger ) if given too much water. i hope this helps you and please remember this is what works for me. I hope your little DR gets big and healthy and gives you years and years of enjoyment. FYI they make great bonsai if you were interested in trying your hand at that.....happy growing and good luck!!!...See MorePlanting Rose plants and its care
Comments (19)Hi Crazy_Rose, I had over 30 roses from hybrids to David Austins when I lived in South Pasadena 10 years ago. We had CLAY SOIL and went the frugal way for amendment. We used playground sand from Home Depot. And then some slow release rose fertilizer. SUNNY LOCATIONS...well we found out that some of the English roses could not take the extreme heat all day long so we had to put in areas that get less sun. I've never seen roses do well in shade. Also, don't be alarmed if some roses are duds. Some just were bad plants to begin with and that doesn't mean that the rose variety is bad. For example, I have an Iceberg left over from last tenant and it is not prolific or bushy like the one I used to have. Yet the David Austin Mary Rose I transplanted from last house is doing the best ever! You'll love Double Delight. Big perfumed blooms, flowers all the time. Mr. Lincoln is an ol' standby. Lovely. Work in coffee grinds under the roses, chopped up banana peels and crushed egg shells. If you need coffee grinds, it's free at Starbucks. Worms love coffee grinds and that should also help with amending your soil from clay to loamy. Like a previous poster, don't over fertilize. You might want to join a Yahoo group I belong to...it's for California gardeners and there are a lot of members in Northern California. CASAPE (CAlifornia Seed And Plant Exchange). We haven't discussed roses yet :0) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Casape/ Susan, Altadena, CA...See MoreGC bid summarized vs line item detail - is this normal?
Comments (23)I had a similar contract with my GC: a summary that detailed the aspects of the job (eg, install 4 ceiling cans, customer to provide fixtures, install cabinets, customer to provide cabinets, install gfci outlets, etc) and a total for the scope of work. My expectation was that if the scope stated that he would install something, that meant he would be providing any items needed to do that. And some things I didn't research thinking that he would just know what to do-- like placement of the relocated phone jack and associated power outlet in a way that would actually let me put the phone there and look nice. So, the only difficulties with that contract that I ran into involved a lack of detail in some aspects: the quality of the drywall sub, issues with fit and finish/ quality of material used (so some things I should have thought more about and specified in advance), only one GFCI installed. Since I ended up refinishing the found pine floor (at my expense) instead of installing the engineered, he found reasons to not discount for the work not done -- like, they had to buy a $19 fitting for the frig water line installation, and a line for the gas stove install, and screws for the pulls -- and that supposedly made up for not installing a floor. I understand expecting to get so much for a job but he was saved a day of labor too. It wasn't enough to sour me on the guy, though. It wasn't worth fussing about in the end, to me. To someone with tighter resources it surely might have been. But, it couldn't have been planned ahead for. Some of the issues (and they really aren't major, in the total scheme I feel) kind of are his crew nickel and diming me -- Claiming something wasn't mentioned in the scope of work (it was), not wanting to finish this, not wanting to fix that, wanting to be done and on to the next job and have no further labor expense on mine. Problems I think can happen with any kind of contract. So, my advice is to discuss any detail that you can think of and make sure it is clear who is providing what, to what quality (like in my case-- style of trim around windows, lack of insulation behind the over-stove exhaust fan, the exact number of GFCIs and where, new location of phone line)....See Morebbinpa
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