Hullo, I've just got a hypoestes plant but I'm not sure how much I should water it, sorry if this sounds silly, I'm only 14 lol

Cheers, Ellie

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:02:45 +0000, Kerry
wrote:

~ I wouldn't bother with cuttings of polka dots.
~ Just wait till the purple flowers have died down - they grow viable
~ seed incredibly easily, and you'll have a new crop of seedlings very
~ quickly!
~
~I've been keeping polka dot plants for over 10 years and I've never had
~one flower. Clearly I'm doing something wrong.
~

Hmmmm.
I grew the bog standard pink-dotted hypoestes for years: tried
everything to stop them growing long and lanky, chopped them down
regularly etc. Eventually I'd let the stems shoot up and at about
8-10" high they'd flower in the leaf axils. And I'd get my next lot of
seed. Admittedly it was about 20 years ago so perhaps they've bred a
new type which stays compact and has no flowers.

I remember the seed pods were like little boats, and would ping! open
and scatter the contents over a wide area. I used to find polka dots
in all surrounding plants...

I'm intrigued now!

--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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