A Bit different...
Dec. 18th, 2024 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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gardeningFor the most part outdoor Gardening is in holding. I've got some late Pansies and Violas that I'm going to plant today and a chitload of frostkilled stuff that I'm waiting till it's drier and less slimy to pull/prune.
Next month I start the 1st wave of my outdoor plants from those Stratifying in the fridge right now.
On the Indoor plant front I'm trying AGAIN to get my Dendrobium nobiles and Epiphyllums to bud. My conservatory/florida room is too warm(for them. My Episcia collection every Winter gets smaller due to temps too low for them) so every above 39F day they're outside and when nights are above 36F they stay out. I'll have to stop this next month since January is usually are coldest month.
Other than them, the temps are right to trigger Oncidium and Phalaenopsis flowering. I rescued a supermarket Oncidium and It's blooming allowing me to ID it as an old friend,'Sharry Baby'. I'd forgotten how powerful it's milk chocolate scent was. Thankfully it' a day scent so night isn't overpowering.
Got a few Holiday Cacti with buds but most are done for the yr. And so far my Hoya multiflora's buds haven't blasted so knock wood;>...
Cheers,
Pat
Next month I start the 1st wave of my outdoor plants from those Stratifying in the fridge right now.
On the Indoor plant front I'm trying AGAIN to get my Dendrobium nobiles and Epiphyllums to bud. My conservatory/florida room is too warm(for them. My Episcia collection every Winter gets smaller due to temps too low for them) so every above 39F day they're outside and when nights are above 36F they stay out. I'll have to stop this next month since January is usually are coldest month.
Other than them, the temps are right to trigger Oncidium and Phalaenopsis flowering. I rescued a supermarket Oncidium and It's blooming allowing me to ID it as an old friend,'Sharry Baby'. I'd forgotten how powerful it's milk chocolate scent was. Thankfully it' a day scent so night isn't overpowering.
Got a few Holiday Cacti with buds but most are done for the yr. And so far my Hoya multiflora's buds haven't blasted so knock wood;>...
Cheers,
Pat
