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Posted by grancru z5 MI (My Page) on Thu, May 18, 06 at 8:43
| I received a ginger in a trade a year or so ago and believe it had the word "Pearl" in the name. It was grown outside (Michigan) last summer and in the house over the winter. It was looking great until this spring. I feed it a diluted solution of Miracle Grow.
I know looks horrible and I am considering dumping it. I will put it outside to see if it recovers but it has never bloomed.
Can anyone offer and help or suggestions? I know nothing about Ginger.
Grancru
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RE: Ginger Help!?!?
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| Hi It looks to me like some kind of Heydichium ginger (Butterfly ginger) but I may be wrong. In case it is I would guess it would need a larger container in order to bloom. Gingers like moist soils with lots of organic matter. |
RE: Ginger Help!?!?
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| I think it would be well to cut it to the ground and re-pot, as cocomo says, with plenty of organic matter in a larger pot. When you knock it out of the pot it's in, you can cut out the old rhizomes so you have more space for the new ones to develop. The old ones might send out new rhizomes, but won't bloom again. I have a bad habit of not digging out the old ones (I grow them in the ground here) and they get pretty overgrown and sparse. |
RE: Ginger Help!?!?
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| The "pearl" name is not ringing a bell, but it looks more like a Zingiber to me. Not all are tropical. Z. mioga is native to Japanese woodlands. I can't tell if that's what you have, but it could be. If it is a Zingiber, cutting back the stalks shouldn't affect flower production too much since the flowers come out on separate stems from the base. They may not be all that attractive, though. Depends on the species. I don't think you need to cut all of the stems back anyhow. There's a couple of really brown ones that need to come off, but the youngest, greenest looking ones can stay. Just remove the worst-looking leaves and maybe trim the browned margins from the rest. Removing the old stalks is routine maintenance for most gingers, and Zingibers in particular. It would probably be a good idea to repot it to a bigger pot, but it doesn't look super critical yet. |
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