These are just the keepers ;)

Jedoba seems like you normally are growing all through October?

Ha, ha, ha. These are just the keepers :). I tell myself that every year too. At least there in now and what an array of plants you have. Good you where able to sell some, Tracy. Helps out a bit with some costs.

All tucked away and warm for winter.

Rick

Tracy, you have some amazing plants there, in fact quite a lot of amazing plants! I hope each and every one of them pulls through for you this coming winter. It's a struggle to keep them going in the colder areas isn't it, but the bigger the plants, the greater reserves they have, fingers crossed that is.

Will you....

a/give them any water

b/give them just enough to prevent them from dropping their leaves and going semi dormant

c/ withhold all water and let them go fully dormant?

d/ you say there will be some light form the LEDs, but will there be any heat? Just curious:-)

Gill

Rick if I keep saying it I will believe it. I let go of some amazingly nice plants this year and scored some really cool trees for some friends in the process. Offset some cost by buying in bulk ;) ;) ;)

Gill the LEDs installed into the fixture will only run for about 10 hours a day. They will get sips of water to keep roots going and not be gorged as they were all summer. Going for a birthday lunch with my boy, be back in a bit!

Tracy

Yes Tracy, I can usually keep them outside into late October and maybe even early November. This year, the extended forecast isn't looking very good.

The room will be the same temperature as the rest of my house which isn't too warm in the winter. I like to keep it right at 68 because I have a large house with 2 units to run which is quite expensive. Especially considering only 2 people live here. Which reminds me! I forgot to get thermometers to place in the room. I have another room where I am storing my seedings. Although I have been auctioning them off in lots on Facebook for uber cheap.

Tracy

I would freeze at 68. In winter, I generally keep it between 74-76.

I have natural gas heat though, and that's pretty inexpensive. Also, it's a small house. I've had both a 4000 Sq ft, and a 1000 Sq ft. The 1000 is too small, and the 4000 eats your money like a 2000 ton gorilla.

That's a lot of plants! I am bringing mine in for the hurricane. . . A lot less work with my small collection though! Everybody in Florida and Southeast coast stay safe this week!

oh i wish lol 68 so tropical we had frost... 3 weeks ago

Jedoba about 2250 sq ft so the eating like a gorilla yes. I keep heaters in the rooms we are in the most. I don't believe in heating every room in the house to 78 degrees because it cost too much.

Frost already Scaff? Where you located?

Gill this year will be a ton of firsts for me. I didn't have this many to maintain through dormancy last year. Nor did I have the vast variety that dormancy behaves just a wee bit different for an A. arabicum since it is built in like clock work. I am hopeful not to lose any but the odds are hard against it...

Tracy

P. S. Daniel stay safe. I've got family and peeps riding the storm out too.

i live outside of edmonton in alberta canada about 10 hour drive north from montana

Tracy, those are some amazing looking plants! I can't wait to get a cple from you! I keep missing all the Facebook sales. But anyways, when you say that you minimize the waterings, how much do you give them. My house is also cold. 63° at night, 65° during the day and 68° in the evening. On real cold evenings we will take the heat to about 70

@scaff best...hi there, can you add some location info after your user name please? That would be great as we can forget where ppl are situated, it also helps if you are asking for certain cultural info...cheers!

Please do tell us about your plants, your experiences in growing them in your zone and of course don't forget some pics, we can never get enough pics! It's especially so to keep the forum going at this time of the season as things are shutting down for some of us. Also it's nice to see new posters join so the more we can write about the more interest, so hope to see you starting a new thread real soon ! :-)

Gill

Hey so, no more tent this year, Tracy? You just gave them the whole room, then lol

20C is plenty warm for them.

Pagan

I hope everyone and their plants will come out Matthew unscathed!

Tracy, I guess mine have an entire room as well, as the tents they're in are in a separate unit. We have just finished moving most of the garden plants we want to get through winter into the same building as we'll have our first frost tonight. So getting a bit cramped for space now.

Our heating runs on natural gas too like Jerry's, but it's pretty expensive here. We've added a lot of insulation to the house (all small rooms anyway), so we have the heating down to 62F at night, 64F during the day and 67F in the evening or when we're at home during the day. And if that's still too cold, I'll retire to the grow tents from now on where it's a comfy 79F-86F :-)

Quite a collection, Tracy! Are most of them Dinos?

OMG.

Wow, that is ginormous! Nice addition!

Thanks Erma, Pagan. Looks like she is staying for a while. Just had to perform emergency root surgery on an imploded root. Bummer.

mine have begun the march inside as well … been gang potting like mad

Goodness me Tracy, that black one looks like an alien! Never seen anything like it, hope the recovery from surgery goes well.

The little crested job looks interesting, what a surprise that must have been.

All my tender outdoorsy plants came into the g/h yesterday as our night temps are dipping below 10c regularly despite the beautiful sunny days. I was outside till I couldn't see what I was doing at 7pm. However, to my utter dismay I discovered my g/h has shrunk considerably since last autumn!

Gill

Tracy, sorry for the late reply, I was travelling for the last 4 days.

Here's my winter set-up: http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/4188237/first-cold-front-of-the-season#18417444.

It's a lot lighter inside the tent than the picture shows.

In the meantime we set up the second tent in the same way as the first, so this is what it looks like now (the garden plants have been moved into the building as well):

Those seedlings and especially the MKMK look fabulous! I hope you'll manage to save the big boy after cutting the rot out.

By the way: how are your E. Obesa seedlings getting on?

OMG Tracy: those E Obesa seedlings look absolutely adorable!!! It looks like something has nibbled off the top of one of them though...

I planted 10 Talinum Caffrum seeds a few months ago. Only 4 seeds germinated: two that clearly are T Caffrum seedlings, but what on earth are the other 2??

I call them random weeds that crop up like this Conny. Yes I suppose I somehow damaged one of the E obesa by leaving some water perched on top of it beneath the LED. I thought something took a bite out of it too, but its contained in my grow room that is clean and pest free. What a bummer because I had extremely low germination on these guys. From what I gather Euphorbia seed does not stay viable for very long.

Tracy

Hm, yes, weeds. That was my initial thoughts too. Yet the shape is so unusual that I'll leave them in for the moment and see what they'll grow into.

Great shame about the E obesa... would you try them again?

Yes I will definitely try the E obesa again. This time I will sow an entire farm of them so I can get some numbers!

Haha Conny, I would do the same thing! I found a palm seed that had been dropped by a bird into one of my pots. I knew it was a palm seed, but I still left it there, and now it has sprouted.

I'll be forced to replant it somewhere else. I just can't kill it.

Wow, congratulations Tracey!

Thanks Conny. Sorry if my weed comment sounded arrogant. I just read my comments and I sounded a wee bit calloused. They are cute.

I need more grow space. Just started another batch of Dorset Horn Adeniums! My Medusa babies are ready for their own pots.

Tracy

Lol, don't worry Tracey! To me anyway, it didn't come across as arrogant at all. I've been wrecking my brain though trying to work out how, if they are weeds, they got into the pot, as they already germinated inside the propagator. Only time will tell :-)

I think I might have a go at some more DH myself in spring. As much as I like the ones I have no, their leaves don't curl, and I really want at least one that is "the real deal"

In the meantime I've found someone who has seedpods on his swazicum, boehmianum and possibly also oleifolium adeniums, so 2017 might be a very great year :-).

Ps: pictures of the Medusas please!

Ah, I want :-

They're beautiful!

Stunning group John, well done! Maybe I'll have a go at them again next year (this year none sprouted), but clearly I have to use a different way of propagating.

John these are fabulous! Absolutely great to post them here. I love them. The star patterns are so cool on the top. They are adorable! Congratulations to you on your successful germination and growth.

Tracy

Erm, Tracy, sorry for (in?)consistently putting an "e" in your name. I have no idea why I've been doing that, but by writing this now I'll never make the mistake again :-)

John, do you sell seeds from your E. obesa? Struggling to find a source of fresh seeds.

Conny it's quite alright. :)

Tracy

Hi Tracy, I wish I had some seeds for you I planted all I had a few weeks ago so nothing this year. I just checked Mesa Garden seed list and they have them. I have ordered seed from them in the past and always had great success.

Here is a link http://www.mesagarden.com

Good luck, John

Thanks John, I'll check with them. I ordered a long list of seeds from them this summer and they were out of stock on everything. Only had 1 type in stock from my entire order. Told me that China is cleaning them out regularly on everything.