Michigan growing cacti
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Comments (2)Motherwort, Leonurus cardiaca. The new, young leaves look nothing like the mature ones. FataMorgana...See MoreType of grow lights for a Michigan winter?
Comments (17)Houston, awesome! I'm definitely going to go look for a good clamp shade once my exams are done (I'll finally be finished next week! yayy!!) blazeaglory, LOL! then you totally understand my plight, since I'm a grad student I usually don't have a lot of spare cash. I'm glad that the light I selected should work for my tree, Thanks for the link you posted up, it's good to know that light will work too. Mike, good to have your approval on my wintering plan too. I know its kinda early to think about winter, but it'll be here before we know it, can't believe it's already August! where did the summer go? but its ok, I love autumn too (I pretty much love any season besides winter, LOL). I'll definitely turn the fan on it for a few hours a day too. My friend came over yesterday to study with me and she ooed and ahhed at how pretty my tree was and wanted to know where she could get one, I may have gotten her hooked on dwarf citrus too! LOL XD Thanks again for your guys's advice! I really appreciate it!! I'll take a picture of my tree again and post it here once I have re-potted him into a good pot. He only has to sit in his small container for another week and a half, so I think it can hold on for a little bit longer (the site said a month was ok). Can't wait to get the mix and make everything come together. MSUgrl...See MoreWill figs grow in Michigan?
Comments (7)yes, depending upon your climate (I'm not originally from Mi, so I'm not sure where Owosso is) and how much work you're willing to do to grow figs, it is possible. I'm in Saint Clair Shores (which puts me North-east of Detroit, and north of Canada) and I have one fig in the ground and a number of figs in pots. The one in the ground needs to be protected each winter and the potted ones are brought inside and stored in a cold-preserving room off of my basement for the winter. There are a number of ways of protecting in-ground planted figs over-winter, and they all require a bit of work. Potted might be a good place to start if you have a place to keep the fig in the winter (an attached, unheated garage can be a viable option). You'll find there are a few of us in this forum growing figs in Michigan (and at least one that I can recall in Chicago as well). ~Chills...See MoreLooking to grow a Bird of Paradise in Michigan.
Comments (5)Kittyjam, your issues will be: Adequate light during the winter, indoor phase, portability; It may not seem bad at first but in particular, if you succeed and your plant begins to put on size, it will eventually get very cumbersome. Of course, there are methods for dealing with this. Your very best bet will come from having a very bright room within which to keep this plant in winter, then as time goes on and the thing grows, coming up with a system to transport it in and out with the seasons. I used to keep a large collection of tall, columnar cacti, out on my front porch all summer. They grew like crazy and at one point, I had numerous large clay pots with cactus columns 7 ft. and more tall! That's hard to transport. Since I am the city horticulturist in this town, I know the local growers and had an arrangement whereby I was able to bring my plants to their "cold house" in late fall, and get them out of there in the spring. I did it for years but it eventually got to be too much. Big tall, wobbly, HEAVY! cacti. Then in the bitter cold of 2012 winter, that greenhouse had a disaster when the heating system failed. So much for all those plants!...See Morenorma_2006
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