There Should Be Lots Of Seeds ~

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:P this is a real hummingbird magnet :rolleyes:

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the plant as a whole ~

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:P see the pods setting??? woohoo!!!!
let me know, if you want to try it ~

[boo]

I would love to try a few seeds. Something else I would have to lug in :rolleyes: but its so pretty. How old is your plant?

Missed you last night ellie. maybe next time :D

[MrSeedy]

I've had pretty good luck getting them to root form cuttings , but have rarely gotten many seeds from mine decompost for some reason! I also found that despite babying the seeds and them comming up easily , they acted most strangely and wouldn't grow after the first couple of weeks at all!! I've never seen any seedlings act in that way before and after months of sitting there and refusing to grow , all the seedlings died. Could have been just the soil or something else that's totally baffling to me. but I sometimes wonder , since those "legumous" plants , which require the nitrogen fixing bacteria for the "nitrogen fixing nodules" on the roots to function normally , just won't grow well if there's no such bacteria in the soil. I guess they're so-called "rhizobium" bacteria and can be purchased as an additive to "innoculate' the soil with the sowing of peas and other legume crops. I have no other likely explantion of the seedling's refusal to grow , despite having the normal bright light, warmth and decent potting soil, and a lack of any noticible disease of bug problems. I guess there's another version , which many woody trees, and shrubs as well as other types of plants depend on for proper root growth and general health of the plants and theyr'e called "micro-rhizae".

[MrSeedy]

Another question about your plant comes to mind as well. Do you have a problem with the newest leaves burning up with either too much sun or windy conditions. I realize that both of those problems are less likely where humidities are high, since the high humidity can reduce burn sometimes both from wind and sun. Just wondering how much wind and sun your's is growing in?? It could be that my poor plant , which spends most of the year indoors, just isn't as sturdy and one grown outdoors most of the year, and that could affect how tough the new shoots are as well possibly?

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boo,
I would love to try a few seeds.? Something else I would have to lug in :rolleyes: but its so pretty. How old is your? plant?
you got 'em, i'll let them ripen up a little bit more.
:lol: yeah boo - it's a "lugger-inner", even here, but i :wub: the plant, almost as much as the hummers do :lol:
have had this one for 5 or 6 years, grew it from a little braided (if you can see the trunk) craft fair purchase.


Missed you last night ellie.? maybe next time :D
:lol: :lol: even though i didn't find you guys, i had an interesting "trip" to say the least :lol:
should i have been in "yahoo chat", or "yahoo messenger with voice/chat"??

**somehow, much of what i saw was in arabic??? (pretty, but unintelligible)
doubtless, i have something set up all wrong!! <_<
i tried - but i had no notion how to navigate once i got "in" - i wandered, sort of aimlessly :lol:

i'm such a goof :unsure: - i guess it'll take me a while to figure out how to do chat.
got to study up on the tutorials.

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mr s,
i expect you're right about the humidity levels being quite important.
i have noticed that i can do a lot of damage (winter or summer) by allowing the plant to go dry <_<

the location of mine is very sunny indeed,
even to the degree that it gets additional reflected light and heat from the white gravel surface of the courtyard.

^_^ really don't know much about the whole nitrogen issue, just sort of wingin' it.

dunno, too, why you've had trouble with your seedlings?
this one sets lots of pods every year,
and the ones that fall, have to be pulled, like weeds, where they come up in the courtyard.

[terese]

:mellow: I'd love to try a few also. :wub:

sorry...should have told you to post your login name here so we could invite you in. post it anyways so we can drag you in for the next one. :D they're always really fun!! :ph34r:

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:mellow: I'd love to try a few also. :wub:
you got 'em teri ~ got you noted for gloriosa tubers too ~
. . . and do you want a cutting of flamingo fower, or have you found that already?

post your login name here
ozonetraveler :rolleyes:

[terese]

I'm still searching for the flamingo flower...but i haven't lost hope yet. :blink:

Thanks Ellie! :D I've just added you to my friends list on yahoo, hopefully we'll be able to set up another chat soon....gotta recover from this last one first. -_-

[bjmots]

I'd like to try a few seeds also. And if you could spare a cutting of flamingo flower I'd be most appreciative

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:D got you on the list, bj ~ i'll collect the "powder puff" seeds when they ripen a bit,
and i'll gladly make a cutting of the justicia (flamingo flower), to add to your pink bird collection :)
i'll send out a pkg when the temps drop a little, so it won't cook enroute.

[Ginny42]

That is such a pretty pink bloom! Is it in the same family as the mimosa? The flowers are the same, at least and the hummers just love them here too. Sorry we missed you last night decompost, I'm recovering from a yahoo hangover today too! :lol:It was so much fun! I haven't stayed up so late in a loooong time, then my smart a$$ brother calls me up at 6:00am this morning. -_- :rolleyes:

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thanks ginny,
you're right - it is in the mimosa family :D

Sorry we missed you . . .? I'm recovering from a yahoo hangover? ?
:lol: :lol: :lol: i have received a personal tutorial :wub: :wub: :wub: from an e-angel :wub: :wub: :wub:
and next time i should do better, <span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>maybe at least find my way to the room :lol: </span>

[MrSeedy]

I think the "hummingbirds" might be the "key" to the powderpuff's being fertilized, as I've not seen much of anything else in the way of insects that seem interested in the flowers or which might pollinate them. Could be why mine hasn't had many seeds over the years for lack of "hummingbrids" around here in the summer. I know in some places it's mostly different kinds of bats that fertilize the flowers at night!!

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:) could be the hummers do play a part, mr s,
but here's my prime suspect, lots of busy bumblers. . .