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In reply to Sheila ) who wrote this in
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Hi, I have a 12 month old bouganvillia, "Vera Deep Purple" it was 6"
high when I got it, it has grown and flowered almost constantly, and
is now 18" tall. I have repotted it 3 months ago, it is kept in my
conservatory, south facing, and was very happy, full of flowers
until we went on holiday, I took it, with a few other smaller
bourganvillia, to my neighbours house, same south facing, but not in
a conservatory, but full light by a window.
We were only away for a week, but all the bracts have fallen off,
and the plant looks very spindly and leggy, there are still leaves,
but I cant see any new bracts forming. I dont think it was
overwatered, the soil was not dry, but not sodden.

What do you think might be happening? is this normal for the plant
to rest like this. I haven't cut it back at all, or fed it. its in
a 6 inch pot. the other plants are fine, not flowering yet at all, a
lot younger.
Mine lives outside in a pot. It has done the same, but I know it will
recover.

They "like" stress. They bract more when they're potbound and too
dry, when the humidity is this high the stress levels lower and they
bract less. Now the pressure is up and the air dryer an improvement
is quite visible in mine, the leaves are wetter looking and the
bracts are back, and the little flowers inside are stronger.

I only know this cos when I got it I panicked and read about
everything there is to read about them. Marvellous plants.

Do you let bees etc in to your conservatory?

What colour is yours?


thanks for that, how long do you keep it outside? how long have you
had it, and what size pot etc. I am going to read up about them as
well, I am really delighted with mine, I have since bought two
others, an orange one, and a white one, but neither has flowered yet,
in fact the white one looks distinctly withered, now its dried, I
might take it outside, I thought it might have been too hot in the
conservatory, I kept them on the floor, out of direct light.
hope the link below works, its the same variety and company as mine.
I have been thrilled with it, it has kept my conservatory smelling
lovely!
http://www.rijnplant.nl/en/page.php?...type=producten

Looks exactly like mine, except mine has grown to about 3'9" high up bean
sticks. I haven't had it out in the winter yet but I plan to, with some
bubble wrap round it and I MIGHT fit a tiny heater for the soil, if I have
to. Apparently they can withstand down to -5C for a VERY short while, but
shouldn't have prolonged temperatures of less than 5C. In Barcelona, Spain
(where I first fell for it) they are normally growing all over the place in
direct and very hot sunlight.

My pot is 9" terracotta but very deep, with a lot of crocks to drain it, and
with a fair bit of sand in the mix. I never water it, but nowadays you don't
need to :-) Overwatering SLIGHTLY is supposed to stress it into producing
bracts, too.

Best of luck with yours, I shall take a photo of mine and post it sometime
soon.