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bouganviella - three quick questions!
Hi folks. Here they are...
1 I'm watering once every 3-5 days. I wait 'til the soil feels very slightly damp (even touching on dry), then I water heavily. Good practice? 2 It drops a lot of flowers, but still looks healthy. Is this normal for bouganviella? 3 I add a seaweed/fish furtilizer once a week or so. Do they like this? Thanks! - JayDee |
bouganviella - three quick questions!
On Jul 26, 11:57 am, Charlie Pridham
wrote: In article 0819a12c-54a6-4ff1-a9ec- , says... Hi folks. Here they are... 1 I'm watering once every 3-5 days. I wait 'til the soil feels very slightly damp (even touching on dry), then I water heavily. Good practice? 2 It drops a lot of flowers, but still looks healthy. Is this normal for bouganviella? 3 I add a seaweed/fish furtilizer once a week or so. Do they like this? Thanks! - JayDee When the first flower flush is going over it pays to keep the plant virtually dry as this induces more flowers, restart more water once more flower buds form. Your watering frequancy sounds fine for this time of year. I don't feed mine as its big enough without encoraging it! but I would not think you would do any harm. Unless it is in a heated space keep it on the dry side overwinter it may well shed leaves but often starts flowering in the spring before the leaves return -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwallwww.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea honestly? I live in a sunny and drier climate and I noticed that there are bunch of dried out flowers on it. I would -think- that means it needs a little more water as opposed to dropping live flowers. Would u agree? I've been watering every three or four days but when I felt the soil today, it did feel very dry... thanks again - JayDee |
bouganviella - three quick questions!
On 2/8/08 21:53, in article
, "JayDee" wrote: On Jul 26, 11:57 am, Charlie Pridham wrote: In article 0819a12c-54a6-4ff1-a9ec- , says... Hi folks. Here they are... 1 I'm watering once every 3-5 days. I wait 'til the soil feels very slightly damp (even touching on dry), then I water heavily. Good practice? 2 It drops a lot of flowers, but still looks healthy. Is this normal for bouganviella? 3 I add a seaweed/fish furtilizer once a week or so. Do they like this? Thanks! - JayDee When the first flower flush is going over it pays to keep the plant virtually dry as this induces more flowers, restart more water once more flower buds form. Your watering frequancy sounds fine for this time of year. I don't feed mine as its big enough without encoraging it! but I would not think you would do any harm. Unless it is in a heated space keep it on the dry side overwinter it may well shed leaves but often starts flowering in the spring before the leaves return -- Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwallwww.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and Lapageria rosea honestly? I live in a sunny and drier climate and I noticed that there are bunch of dried out flowers on it. I would -think- that means it needs a little more water as opposed to dropping live flowers. Would u agree? I've been watering every three or four days but when I felt the soil today, it did feel very dry... thanks again - JayDee We have several mature plants in a greenhouse here in South Devon. Sometimes they look simply dreadful - half dead and deeply unalluring. A week or two later they are covered with brilliant flowers and as beautiful as you could hope for them to be. They're at that point right now. You say you live in a sunny and drier climate but you don't say where and as far as I can see, you didn't say that in your first post. This very important because plants will perform according to their environment so it would be very helpful if you would tell us all where yours are? -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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