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Comments (3)It is fantastic to see you here Jeff! I am sure you will take a lot of information away from here, continue to grow such beautiful plants as I have seen you have, meet many new wonderful forum members, and even see the writings and posts of many familiar friends and members here. Actually, I can't wait to see some of your offerings too:-) Ohiofem certainly gave you enough to keep you busy to start with. I would also suggest a good read of that thread too. You might need to set a side a few days or even months depending on how much time you have to spare, to get through it and others like it. There is plenty to read and enjoy. Welcome aboard! Mike:-)...See MoreIntro and shout out
Comments (26)Well, I agree with you Irina. I think my biggest mistake was to immerse the bottoms of the pots in water, after repotting, to moisten. This saturated the soil and then it was very cool and rainy here for several days and continues to be cool. After setting up my light shelf and wicking resevoir, I repotted everything in new, lighter mix and allowed the wick to moisten the soil this time. All of the roots on every plant, Nolvosan soak or not, were dead, due to the wet, cool soil, and since I had run out od vermiculite, the perlite was not enough to aerate it, it was just too dense and too wet. I am very sure all of them can survive, they all have nice, healthy stumps to reroot from. They are all in 2'' pots now, even the larger ones, since they have no root mass. With being in a lighter mix and having stable temps and lighting, they should look beautiful again within a couple of months, I am sure. My questions are: After reptotting, do you water the plant in or let the wick work to moisten the soil to barely damp? This is what I have done this time, but if the wick isn't enough, I will know today and top water lightly. Also, since all of my violets are now essentially suckers, with no roots, will they root just being potted in normal mix, kept barely moist and wicked? I don't have any means of covering them all and keeping them well lit at the moment, but if getting them covered or bagged is really important to saving them, I will figure something out. Thanks everyone....See MoreHAVE: Grass Aloes
Comments (2)Joe, I would be interested in your grass aloes. I have agave pups - parryi truncata, lopantha, possibly some others. I also have zebra aloe and climbing aloe. I have lots of succulents including a bush aeonium that might take the cold alright. I occasionally get a good freeze and most of my succulents have survived alright. Let me know. Dee...See MorePics from my trip to Disney World Florida!
Comments (10)Thanks for looking everyone! Bananatree94, Thanks for the IDs. You were definitely right on all those bird ID's and possibly the orchid ID too (I'm not sure since I dont know much about orchids!). Apparently Disney does protect their orchids, so they might have been given extra protection, but they were at least 25 feet above the ground, so I dont see how protection would be a very easy thing to accomplish! Someone ID'ed the Jubaea x Butia as a Syaragus x Butia, so it probably is just a very Butia looking Mule palm. Either way, its nice to see some palm hybrids on the property! Lzrddr, I think you might be right about that White Elephant Palm being potted. It does look like there is enough bare room underneath it for it to fit a pot. I did here that White Elephant Palms are somewhat frost tolerant and since the palm in this pic was in deep shade, its possible that it has not seen much of a frost even after last winters low temperature of 28F. Usually Orlando winters are above freezing, but they have not been so lucky with the past 2! Im sure that the Red Sealing Wax palm has to be potted up because even with heat, I dont see how they could survive last years Brutal winter. They can barely handle temperatures in the 40s! Jim, the plants definitely were one of my favorite about Disney! I was happy to see someone else taking pictures of plants so I didn't feel too alone, but plant lovers were definitely the minority! And I could definitely see why you thought the monkey's escaped, lol, the wire definitely looks like a telephone wire! -Alex...See MoreCasaLester RTP, NC (7b)
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