That will look great hung up with flowers in the box. I copied and pasted in "file open' and it opened. If you use photobucket, copy the entire html 'address' and paste into the message and that should work. You can try it in this same thread and see if it shows. If it is not there when you look at the review message, then you have to hit back button and retry the address.

Thank you, everyone! Our water where we live, out in the country, is hard water. Luckily, I can collect rainwater and I use it on my other house plants. They all love it. Trouble is that when it's in my watering can, the water becomes cold and I have to add warm tap water so I don't shock my plants. Irina, thank you for the photo tip. Suprisingly, the light from the living room floor lamp, the light over the sink and the celing florescent lights in the kitchen were all on. The one lady who was where I bought my AV I know from volunteering at our local community theatre. I'll ask her the next time I see her the AV lady's name. Oh and my plant is in a small plastic pot. The little kettle is wooden and just for decoration to hide the black plastic pot. I have an AV book published by Sunset from 1974 (sixth printing) as well as other house plant books. Just thought I would let you know to those people of interest. Hmm, maybe when I go to Lowe's again, I might pick up another AV. :-). They don't take up as much room as my other plants do, lol. Brad AKA Moonwolf

I'm in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. How long should it stay in this pot before I re-pot it? I brought back some Ti plants as well on this trip and they are all doing good as well but they seem to be easier for me to grow. I've also got a bird of paradise that I planted from seeds that I brought back years ago that has been a struggle but I managed to keep it alive and this year it seems to be taking off. Thanks for all your advice and help.

LightCyan, Nice work. looks like you will have some nice blooms in a couple of weeks. You will soon be familiar with what we call an "ohcomeonalready" moment. That precise point in time when your bloom clock is up but the plant is still taking its sweet time. Becky, I think the key thing will be the size of the bark you want to add. Each Gritty mix component must have a specific size in order for the engineering and physics to work just right. My recommendation would be to use gritty mix for rooting as is without amendments if you have it. After all it's perfect as is... ; P K