I have these plants to trade.Approximately 5 to 8 inches or so with a good root system.Check my wants or make a offer.

Stephanotis needs a relatively cool, dry rest in the winter; not quite dormancy, but more like a winter vacation where you check into a cosy spot and spend all your time reading books and watching TV. When you add the big drop in light levels, it's hard not to stress the plants out -- but that much leaf drop says something's not right. If you haven't cut way back on the watering they may have some root rot, so you might want to gently pull them out of their pots to check the root balls. Defoliation could also be caused by those *#^*$#! spider mites, or even actual spiders spinning webs on leaves and stems, which happened with a nice vandofinetia orchid of mine and killed off the flowers early. Curses! Give 'em as much light as you can, and consider a portable CFL grow light to supplement Mother Nature's weak offerings. Deep waterings once a week are better than 2-3 little waterings. No fertilizer at all! Hopefully, now that the days are lengthening again, they'll recover, and as new growth starts out you can sloooooly up the watering schedule and see if they flower come spring! Hope this helps, Jim

Well, Aggie was generous enough to send me a whole fuzzy mass of her S. floribunda seeds, so I thought I'd post an update on how they're doing. I seeded 5 containers, 3 with lids and 2 without. I wanted to see the difference between letting them experience a wet/dry cycle (never completely dry) versus keeping them moist and humid the whole time. Here they are after a couple weeks: Unlidded flats: Lidded flats: As you can see, the plants in the flats that stayed damp and humid grew faster. Just in case anyone's worrying, after another week, there were just as many little seedlings in the "unlidded" flats. It just took them a little longer to get going. Well, thank you again Aggie for the super adorable adorable seedlings.

WOW! Thanks guys for all your feedback. When I ordered the "Steph" and read up on the care of the plant-"Full Sun, Partial Sun"- I thought this was going to be a no-brainer. Thanks for alerting me that over-exposure of the sun down here could prove to be fatal. I'm going to leave it potted so I can monitor it's growth and move it around and see how it responds. Being what I naively thought was a native plant of Hawaii, I assumed it would love a hot and sunny location. As far as the vanilla orchid, Karyn-it's happy and growing but as of yet, not flowering yet. I've only had the orchid for a couple of weeks but I check it each morning for blooms. If and when it does, I'll let you know. Now, I'm interested in finding out more on the Queen's Wreath. What color are the blossoms? Sounds like a good climber for our privacy fence. Thanks again everyone!