Amazander, you could try the dyna gro bloom. Though I don't know if they will really utilize all that P... I think the prevailing theory is that restricting N is actually what helps to stimulate blooms rather than increasing the P. but with an all in one product, you can't really alter anything, so the bloom formula should work, I just doubt that the plants will actually use all that P. as long as you are flushing with every watering though it should work just fine. I wouldn't mess with the pH at all, I think the gritty pH will be fine as is. The pH of you're water is probably of more concern, as tap water is usually pretty high ( mine is around 9.0). Most people don't do anything though and have plenty of success, however some people do use distilled white wine vinegar to bring their tap water pH down. I water my pants in the gritty mix about every 4 to 5 days. At first you may have to water more often until the roots fill up the container. Themix often looks and feels dry, but still has plenty of moisture in it. It is an extremely difficult if not impossible mix to overwater in, but I doubt that you will have to water more often than every three days. If you haven't read it yet, tapla's post on fertilizing containerized plants is awesome and has helped me a ton. If you wind up keeping it by te window in the long run, I would suggest rotating the container a quarter turn every other day or so to give th whole plant good light exposure. Hope my babbling and run on sentences make sense lol.

Those stories just make me sick. I've just been complaining recently about that sort of totalitarianism in my small town. The city comes by regularly and rips limbs off my trees in the back alley - they do not trim them, they rip them with some sort of huge machine on a truck. I know their goal is to kill them, and they did kill one old silver maple that I remember from my childhood when it was a baby. (I live in the same house I grew up in.) I try to flout them where I can. Much to my husband's dismay, I let my kids keep a small stand of corn in the front strip of lawn that sprouted up from last fall's Halloween decorations. I maintained it meticulously, weedeating around it, and handweeding between the stalks. That was cleaned up after harvest, but we still have the watermelon and pumpkin vines out front...Thank goodness I'm not the only rebel. My neighbor and cousin are both growing pumpkins in their front yards too this year!!! I really fear I may be cited soon for my "Green Globe" - an experiment gone awry. My daughter and I plant these beautiful foliage plants every year - well, ok, technically they're weeds...Redshanks...really cute. Anyway, we always stick a few in odd places where they don't have the best conditions. This year we had the brilliant idea of putting them in a heavily amended slightly raised bed right up in front of the porch. They usually top out at around 3 ft. in a good year. This year they are over 6 ft, and filling an entire bed. The stems are like bamboo, about 2" diameter in some places. And when it rains, it flattens the whole thing from the middle. I trimmed it back some, but it just keeps getting out of control. When it's at its best, it's really pretty and different. Even my husband admired it for quite awhile. Everyone asks me what kind of shrub that is - "Wow, that grew really fast..." I can't wait to relieve the city - and my husband - of this problem, but it is just on the verge of setting prodigious amounts of the best seed ever...

I know as a "summer person" that I am not considered a Maniac but I have to spend the work year here in Illinois with my husband as both our jobs are here. Our future retirement house in Maine has a winter tenant so we can afford to use it for a few weeks of bliss in the summer. I first visited Maine in 1964 and have not missed a summer since then. My heart swells with joy when we cross the Bath bridge, open the car windows and smell the first salty air. I garden with perennials in the beds and annuals in the window boxes and containers on the porch. I lost my Bonica rose and many perennials with that hard winter last year and still had Japanese beetles in my Rugosas. Sigh. We look out at Indiantown Island in West Boothbay Harbor so the bird activity is as much fun as the plant stuff. I dug a little pond a few years ago and that brings a lot of pleasure. The resident frog is big enough to croak so loudly we hear him indoors! Mary

Thanks Neil! Need to bonsai it up a little! With all do respect Aerial Lindsay - I believe many members of the forum here have already responded to your thread with an answer, and that your plant is a type of jade, crassula ovata, with tips on how to grow it. It would be a basic etiquette to respond back to them and take your discussion back to your thread instead of hijacking every single 'Jade Post' you can find on the forum with the same question. - Bernard