Hi gryhwk2330, We plant our new rose band plants into 5 gallon pots with good potting soil and let them grow for around a year before planting them in our garden. We did this with Portlandia and planted it into our garden around a year ago. It produced around 10 canes that grew around 7 feet tall that had beautiful multi-colored roses (orange, pink, yellow) with an appealing fragrance. Our plant is growing erect without support at this point. It remains to be seen if this plant will produce longer canes that require some type of support. The canes are somewhat flexible, so it may be possible to train this variety spiraled around a support as a pillared rose. At this point, we have only seen flowers at the ends of the canes; I expect that there would be far more flowers on a properly trained pillar rose, so we will most likely be doing this in the near future. We grow a number of the roses developed by the late John Clements and are impressed with their performance, especially The Impressionist, Safari, Tranquility, Memories, and Star of the Nile. We have recently added a number of others: Joan Fontaine, Magnificent Perfume, Fragrant Masterpiece, and Golden Globe. These have been growing in 5 gallon pots for the past year and we are transplanting them into our garden today. Good luck with your Portlandia! John

Just my humble opinion here and I have no experience with AeroGrow lights at all but petunias require quite a bit of strong light/sun in order to grow and bloom. I grow them outside in full sun. If the AeroGrow works well enough for the petunias to bloom it seems to me this might be too much light for the violets. I personally would be very careful. Hopefully someone has experience, good luck :)

Ken, I was just looking more gardeners that have tried them. It seems some people like them, and some don't. So I want to try them (and have begun). Wondering what the negatives will be. So far, it seems those bags need more watering. Spin out bags are heavier, water permeable but I don't think they would dry out as fast if they were on the surface rather than in the ground. Patti, I wish I could answer your questions! Mxk3 said they used a spin out bag and planted it into a ceramic planter. I've done that. Spin out bags are made to be planted into the soil. So I had a large planter with assorted plants. The hosta plant was in a spin out bag, the others weren't. Come fall, I removed it from the planter and dug it into the soil to overwinter. Fabric bags aren't made to be planted into the ground. But maybe it would work? You certainly could put the fabric bag into a pot. Not sure what the benefits of that would be. But it would be helpful when overwintering. That way, you would remove the fabric bag and store and overwinter the ceramic pot away from rain and snow and freezing temperatures. I don't think one should worry about the roots freezing in the fabric bags. The roots freeze in pots that are left outside too! As I understand it, it isn't the freeze that kills the roots, but it is the freeze/thaw/wet conditions that can cause root and crown rot. I will be storing my two fabric bags in a shed.

Growing techniques for Yuzu should not be much different than for growing any other citrus variety. Are you growing it in the ground?