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Anyone Keeping a Mandevilla over Winter?

nutsaboutflowers

13 years ago

I have a big pot with 2 Mandevilla vines that I paid over $20.00 each for. It seems a shame, as they're absolutely beautiful and still blooming, to just throw them away.

I've read some old posts and it seems some people put them in a window, some cut them back, some don't, some put them in the basement to go dormant, etc. What do we do here in Zone 3? Also, I've read they're susceptible indoors to mites.

Anyone had any experience keeping theirs?

Oh, and would taking cuttings be possible?

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beegood_gw
13 years ago
I cut mine back and put into a sunny window. They are a tropical and don't go dormant. By spring it had lots of new growth and flowered again.No idea about cuttings. Gave mine away in the summer to some one who liked it more than I did.
marciaz3 Tropical 3 Northwestern Ontario
13 years ago
I have one that was a present from my mother-in-law last spring. It's inside now, kind of forcibly cut back because it had wrapped itself around a trellis. So far it hasn't done anything, just sit there with a few leaves - but it's not receiving any direct sunlight yet. I'll have to get it into a window soon.
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