How long does it take a newly planted camellia to bloom?
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How often to water newly planted camellias
Comments (2)Water the soil and not the leaves as watering the leaves can promote fungal leaf diseases. Your aim is to keep the soil evenly moist, which is -obviouslly- hard to do. To tell when to water the soil for sure, use the finger method: insert a finger to a depth of 4" into the soil (the mulch does not count) and water if it feels almost dry or dry. Also mark on your wall calendar the days when you watered. To help maintain the soil moist, cover the root area with mulch, about 3-4" of any type of acidic mulch, up to drip line or a little beyond. Plants in sandy soil need about 1/3 to 1/2 more water than plants in clayish soil. Continue watering with the finger method for about 2 weeks. Then review the information on your wall calendar. Determine how often you water and set the sprinkler to do the same on the same frequency (every three/four/etc days). If temperatures change by 15 degrees or more and stay there, consider rechecking using the finger method. Beware of moisture and temperatures problems this winter. I live in Zone 8a and our winter temperatores fluctuate a lot. Temperatures can zoom to almost 80 and the crash to the 20-30s. We can also go over two weeks without moisture or we can get a little rain each week. This winter try to maintain the soil moist as best you can with the help of the winter method. During future winters, you can water much less than the finger method suggests because the plants are dormant and well established. But just because they are dormant, do not think you do not need to water. One dry winter season ago, I turned the sprinkler off and forgot. I suddendly noticed that most of my camellias started browning the leaves! Oops! The part that I cannot help you with is exactly how much to water to apply to the soil for plants of this size. I try to make sure that each watering will keep the soil moist to a depth of 14-18" but perhaps someone else can advise for such large rootballs. There is Coast South Carolina Camellia Society in Mount Pleasant that you can try to contact. Wesley Fisher is their president. You can reach them at (843) 388-0329, at wesfish@bellsouth.net or at the link below. Does that help you? Luis Luis Here is a link that might be useful: Coastal Carolina Camellia Society Website...See Morehow long does s. discolor take to bloom from seed?
Comments (2)Hi Amanda, I am not too sure coming from seed but I think you are looking at 1 to 2 years. I grew my salvia discolor from a tiny cutting and it flowered in a year, it is actually flowering now and has been for the last 8 weeks.It sure is a beauty.Look under the leaf, the underside is white and the stem is white.Lets hope someone else can be more definate for you. Cheers Annette...See MoreHow long does it take a Lacunosa to get vines this long?
Comments (7)It came in a very fast mix. The guy uses mostly cypress mulch, some peat chunks, and lots of little plastic balls that are hollow, and maybe a tiny bit of soil, I really couldn't ID all the ingredients ( I spilled it once, so inspected the media). I bought a bale of mulch and used that to pot up, adding only Growstone and a bit of coir. The pot gets light in the summer almost every other day and I just throw in a full cup of MG Bloombooster (one time full strength, next time half strength), much less in winter, although that is when the vines grow the most, Then I use a lighter version of MG Plant Food for the green growth. Since I bought it, I have realized this plant loves full sun and plenty of water and all it does is bloom constantly and grow a foot a month or so. But this is a cv Sunrise clone and it has very large dark green leaves with thick vienage, my old Sno Caps had leaves half the size. So, to sum it up, it gets thirsty and hungry and loves light. Full sun helps, too. Funny thing, but living here in FL, I hear people saying they shade their plants so they won't get leaf burn. I grow all my Hoyas in FULL WEST sun, outside and the only leaves ever effected were the half white half green Carnosa KQ. Eventually the white half will die but the full white ones don't mind the sun at all. What's up with that ? Well that was longer than I expected, sorry. It is easy to get carried away in the world of Hoya. Marco...See MoreHow long does it usually take for plants to go into transplant shock?
Comments (5)The compost, pea gravel, and sand were all added to the whole garden. It's a new garden that I dug up in early spring. I've got a very large yard so I dig up new areas to plant in all the time. Most of my yard has nice black dirt under the sod but this particular area is clay, for some reason. Out of the 10 marshmallow plants I planted, it's just the one single plant that isn't getting enough water. I've been having to run the drip hose everyday for it. After a few hours of watering, it perks up. BUT by mid day, the next afternoon, it's drooping over again! This is the 3rd day in a row that I've had to run the drip and all that water is starting to piss off my other plants that are sharing the same garden. Like my Helichrysum italicum, it can't handle all that water. I have about 20 of them in that garden and if I have to keep running the water over there, it's going to kill every one of them! I also have about 20 chamomile plants in there. I should NOT have put water loving plants right next to drought loving plants. Duh! I don't know what I was thinking! And I don't know what to do. I can't dig up all of the marshmallow and move them. That'd be too traumatic for them. Maybe I should dig up just the one that's not getting enough water and plant it somewhere else. I still cannot understand WHY it's having this problem when none of the others are! And just out of curiosity, why is it a bad idea to amend a planting hole?...See MoreEmbothrium
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