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| One of the 3 starter plants I bought from LLG almost 2 months ago was Red Summit. It came with a very tiny bud and some pretty long, lanky leaves. I decided to leave the bud on because I wanted to see how the bloom will look like; but later, I had one grow light that the plant was sitting under fall right off and land on one of the leaves of Red Summit, obviously breaking it.
So now, the poor plant is limp/has un ugly gap, and has a long way to go until it will actually have nice all around foliage. However, the long awaited bloom is finally here and it is big and beautiful; so now I really have an incentives to get this plant where it needs to be. Any idea how long it will take for this plant to fill out? There is another tiny bud coming but this time I will cut it off so the plant can focus on producing more leaves.
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- Posted by Begonia2005 7 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 18, 12 at 12:59
| Love the bloom a lot...and now I am itching to get the apparently even more popular Pink Summit; but I will wait until Spring. :-) |
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- Posted by Empress012 10 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 18, 12 at 15:56
| I am an absolute newbie and am very brutal with my plants but I will make a suggestion. You don't have to do it but it is what I would do. And I would cut off all the outer leaves and leave the tight center. Propagate the adult leaves but in actually those huge gaps will never fill in. AV grow in a sort of spiral and will continually grow outward but not into those spaces. Hope this helps some. Good luck! |
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| I'm not big on removing productive leaves. I know that some do, but my feeling is that the more leaves, the more growth mechanism (i.e. chlorophyll), and faster growth. IMO, leaves can always be removed when the plant has more growth. BTW, eventually, new layers of leaves will provide new complete rosettes of leaves, thus filling in the gap. Pink Summit is a great grower. Hopefully, Red Summit is, as well. |
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- Posted by plantomaniac08 8 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 18, 12 at 17:41
| Wow, that flower is just gorgeous. Planto |
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| It looks ok, but you should definitely use timers. You won't have to monitor as much and it will be easier to adjust more or less light when needed. Red Summit is one of my difficult plants. It usually gets not enough or too much light. Maybe with your natural and artificial light combo you will get it right. |
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- Posted by Begonia2005 7 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 18, 12 at 21:55
| I am hesitant about removing all the larger leaves because this is what I have done to another plant - I took off several large leaves at once - and it went down hill from there. I think I will just probably wait for new growth to come in and for the plant to follow its natural course. When the time of these older leaves is up, they will go by themselves. I ordered the least expensive timer from indoorgardening though I am still not sure exactly how it works. I guess I will see when it arrives. |
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