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Comments (5)Check the roots & see if they are OK. If they are rotten, you need to try & propagate it. Just dry it & stick it back in soil. You do not need rocks in your soil  just dry & well draining soil. The rocks might humidify the plant, possibly contributing to excess root moisture. Local commercial growers stick pups/cuttings in sphagnum, but you may not have that in your country. Sometimes they die back with cool temps, & moving it towards a cool window might have caused that. I had problems with some of these plants until I found the right location. Mine have done best in a deep pot, bright light, & afternoon sun. They have seemed to suffer a bit with the cooler temperatures, but then they start putting out pups....See MoreLeggy Moses In A Cradle
Comments (4)Hi Patti, Your Tradescantia is suffering from lack of direct sunlight. It is a sun-lover. Artificial light will help a bit, but not much. Fertilizing at this point will only contribute to more legginess. My guess is that you have also put it in a pot that is too large and has too much soil. That is a recipe for inadvertent overwatering. When rooting cuttings, it is best to put multiple cuttings in the same pot so you will have a fuller plant. It is also important to use the SMALLEST pot possible. Eventually your plant will need a larger pot, but not until it has filled the small pot with roots. It's like children's shoes - step them up as needed rather than anticipating what they will need as adults....See MoreKind of OT: Mr. Moses, do any forum members live near you?
Comments (6)Lilyfinch, My problem is I have too many favorite foods! Pittsburgh does not have a single, specific, signature food. I would think a Primanti sandwich, with your whole meal held between two big pieces of bread, especially your French fries, is unique to Pittsburgh. You can get the fries put on the side, but the sandwich isn't the same that way. The best pierogies are homemade, then church pierogies. My cousin Deloris said the ladies at St. Jehosaphat's, claimed theirs were the best. Those dear, old time ladies are long gone. My Aunt Mary made the best pierogies. They were huge, about the size of 4 Mrs. T's pierogies. She used a large Crisco can as the dough cutter! No wonder! What memories! My mother couldn't make good pierogi's. She didn't have the touch! Hers fell apart at the seams, but they were still delicious. Oakmont Bakery cannot be matched. You can breathe in their cakes while you're eating their cookies, twice the joy, in half the time. That's the only way to do it! Eat n' Park has a senior lunch buffet on Tuesdays. I taught English at Colfax School in Springdale, PA, many years ago. I am very knowledgeable of the river towns along the Allegheny. Cheswick is a nice place to live. There is a productive Bald Eagle's nest in Harmarville, on the cliff above Freeport Rd., at the Hulton Bridge (newly built..recently opened). Bald Eagles have returned to the Pittsburgh area after a 150 year absence! There you go, Lilyfinch, a little stroll down memory lane for both of us! Keep well. Moses...See MoreApricot Candy height in cooler zones, Moses, others
Comments (5)Sharon, Of all the roses in my garden that get winterized (most of the hybrid teas including Apricot Candy), Apricot Candy came through the most amazingly undamaged of the lot. I do get dieback even with winter protection on some of them. It was essentially tip hardy, but of course a generous mound of pine bark certainly must have aided in AC's remarkable survival. That's in light of a severe 2017-18 winter I had here. LMy Beverlys died to 4" from the ground even with generous protection. Apricot Candy was pruned back this past pruning session to my coveted, standard 12" cane height (not always possible, depending on winter survivability), with white, healthy pith seen at every cut. This was done a couple weeks ago, and AC is leafing out very nicely as I type. Looking back to last year, perhaps I should have expectd good fortune to continue, because when planted last spring as a miniscule liner from Stargazer Perennials, AC took off growing and blooming better than any hybrid tea liner I have ever grown. Thick basal canes came quickly. If AC keeps up the pace as it matures over the next few years, it will change my opinion of hybrid teas....I am nuts about them, but always expect to have to baby them along to some degree. Concerning fragrance, there is no wafting I can detect. The scent is more than medium, but less than strong. Sweet-fruity, describes it by my nose. I am a stickler for scent in my roses. If it's not fragrant, I don't want it, but when it is a fantastic rose: flower color, size and form; disease restance; and winter hardiness, yet does not have strong fragrance, just moderate, it is given a provisional reprieve. So far Apricot Candy gets a gladly given deprives. I gave Sweet Fragrance this same reprieve because of its only a little better than moderate, yet adequate fragrance, but otherwise, SF works like a 'rented mule,' giving so much, it's all. Surprisingly, Apricot Candy and Sweet Fragrance are very similarly colored. Their blooms are equally large, 5" . AS's flower is hybrid tea form, while SF's is relaxed, floribunda form. Apricot Candy is not black spot proof, but not a black spot magnet. I spray. The most outstanding attribute AC has, by my estimation, is vigor and repeat bloom, followed by flower form, beauty and scent, then winter survivability. If Apricot Candy keeps up the good work, and I am compelled at some future time to put multiples of it in my garden, I will experiment and not give winter protection to one to see how it fares. I will still continue to winterize the original Apricot Candy, for a while at least. If it follows the pattern of maturing rose bushes gaining winter hardiness as they put on years, it will further prove its mettle. As far as height and width goes....so far, mine does not sprawl, nor is it bolt upright. I would say in colder zones, a 3.5' x 2.25' maximum size will be reached at maturity. Mine is own root. By season's end last year its longest cane was about 24". All growth bloomed heavily, no blind growth nor Kordes 'laziness' in flower output. It has been a husky bush, not wimpy, arching, nodding blooms (boy, do I dislike nodders), or weak necks or stems at all. l suppose a grafted Apricot Candy will get bigger, but I don't think enormously so, maybe a foot taller and a half foot wider. Moses...See More
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