I have seen them at the San Antonio Home Depots and they are a good growing Rubra grown at a nursery somewhere near the Texas coast. For your best chance to see blooms next year I would start prepping by applying fertilizer at half the dose twice as often or using a time release like Osmacote. We can fertilize up to the end of Sept/early Oct in Texas. Then after that point no fertilizing until April. Agree with Dave. Leave it in the current container until the spring. Then go to a 3 gallon container (wide containers are better than tall). This post was edited by kms2 on Wed, Aug 13, 14 at 17:23

Karen, These are the juvenile stage of the plant. Our S. trifasciata usually don't do this. That's why some call hahnii the trifasciata that stayed a juvenile. Usually the tall big leaves will come from a rhizome growth from them. Very interesting. And great growing on your part. Stush

Good luck finding one that hinges from the left! I've only found three in my on-line searches. One from Amana (20 cu ft), a Frigidair (~17 cu ft), and a Whirlpool that has two doors. We really want to get the Kenmore Elite 20.6 cu ft, but it only hinges on the right side. We're looking at a new arrangement of our pantry to accomodate a right swinging door.

I have been doing ok with this. Homer barked and called her all night last night. He ran all over the lot looking for her everywhere. He came in at 6 this morning and searched the house. Then he went back out. Cindy has never had a dog before Homer and she got really attached. Homer was dropped at our house as a big puppy. He moved onto our front porch and wouldn't leave. It was in the spring time so we had the windows open and he could hears us watching TV and talking. Cindy tried to take him a bowl of water but he growled at her. A few days later Homer got under the window and was whining. Cindy wanted to try again so this time she took him a big pan of leftover spaghetti. Homer loved it. When he finished that pan he picked it up and brought it back to Cindy for more. He has been ours ever since. We decided that Homer needed a companion so we went to the shelter and got one. But the one we picked turned out to be dangerous so we had to take her back. She was a loving dog but she had to be the only dog. Then we found a dog like Sophie but a little older thru PetFinder. We went to meet someone about the dog but with the time difference (we're on central time, Chattanooga is on Eastern) we missed each other. But while we were at the meet up spot, a car came in and stopped and put out a sign advertising free puppies. We looked at them and picked Sophie. She turned out to be a perfect companion for Homer. Except she wouldn't stay in the dog lot. No matter what we did she managed to escape. She wouldn't go far. She always stayed near Homer. Sophie was with us for 3 and a half years. She looked much the same grown up. It rained pretty good all day today so burial will be tomorrow. Thanks for listening and the support. Pooh Bear