In article ,
Omelet wrote:

In article ,
Mark Herbert wrote:

I've considered trying to grow Hawaiian Baby Woodroses...

My current HBWR plant is 4 years old and hasn't bloomed yet. I leave it
out all summer long and bring it indoors and keep it under lights in the
winter. I don't know why it won't flower. I had a similar plant a long
time ago that bloomed its second year. Here it is growing up over my
roof. It lives in a 20 gallon tub and grows about 15 feet in the summer.

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It's very pretty!!!

Might need some very specific conditions? Higher humidity?

That very well be a major factor. It's awfully dry here in Albuquerque.
The plant that bloomed for me lived in Davis, CA, where it is relatively
stiflingly humid in the summer.

There is a nursery in Austin called "Garden of the Ancients" that
specializes in Herbal Entheogens. I got some Peruvian Torches from him
that I'm just beginning to propagate.

He had a monster HBW in one of the greenhouses that was blooming it's
head off. I need to drop back by there and see if I can purchase some
seeds. My Caapi vine I got from him is also doing well as long as it
stays shaded and inside of the greenhouse.

I have been putting off erecting a greenhouse for a few years. The idea
of stepping into a tropical paradise replete with colorful spiders in
the middle of winter is tantalizing.

I've also scored egg sacks from the yellow garden spiders that inhabit
his greenhouses.

I am always on the lookout for garden spider egg sacs. I brought a few
back from Missouri last year but they never hatched. I think they got
overheated in my car :-( Once your spiders have laid eggs, I sure would
like to introduce some to my garden. I'll trade you a couple of baby
scorpions, or maybe some Datura and Brugmansia seeds and an Iochroma
cutting or two.