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New Guinea--Starting from seed..
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Posted by bill66 S/W Mo. (My Page) on Fri, Jul 13, 07 at 10:35
| My wife was given a New Guinea plant in a hanging basket for Mothers Day 2007. That thing is about as pretty a plant that I have ever seen.. It is huge and is one flowering bugger!! Ok, my question. Those little footballs, when do you pick them off?? Do they dry up and shrink? I have never watched them long enough to see what happenes to them. I thought that they were the beginning of a new flower.. Do I pick them off, let them dry or pick them and directly put them into soil or in a paper towel and baggie to let them sprout? I took some shoots off the bottom edge around the main plant last night and poked them in a 6 inch pot and put a plastic baggie over them to see if they will start. They still looked good this AM.. I have read other places where sun, water, fert., and all sorts of special things to keep these flowers blooming. MY pot, (yes I am claiming it from my wife) is on an old picnic table under a shade tree. It sees sun about 2 hrs in the morning, the rest of the time it is in the shade.. We are located in SW Mo., zone 6 and spend winters in deep south Texas, zone 9 Will these things keep blooming all winter in south Texas? Everything else down there blooms all winter.. Thanks, hope to hear from someone.. Bill |
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RE: New Guinea--Starting from seed..
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Bill
New Guinea Impatiens are very tender and will not survive a Zone 9 winter. The little foot balls are seed pods and are not the seeds themselves. When the pod is ripe it will explode and release the seeds. Normally the plants will drop them off on their own. It sounds like you have the plant in a good spot. |
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