That is a beauty! Love the color and the shape is fabulous, it does look like a rose.

Here from my side of the country

fantastic they look great

you getting any of this tropical rains they are saying we in florida will get in the next few days? i hate days with all rain

Yep, The rain is here,but not a hard one, Those are old varieties, tag is lost I love them.

Your first one looks like it could be Poseidon.

Thank you Hetty, I lost the tag and do not remember, so I will put a tag with Poseidon

Very pretty mocropot; exactly where is "your part of the country"? Mike my rain gauge says we got three inches just yesterday! I think i9t's pretty accurate.

Jim

It is Tampa, we have rain all day here, it is like 3-4 inches. All my "fat" plants are tooo much watered, hope they will be OK

and it only has just started what i herd

here is a pic of my small ones inside


the big ones stay out for now maybe tomorrow come in

Love them. Especially that little Fat bottle one.....

Mike where do you put it inside, do you have a FR?

no just in my screen porch on my hot tub that we dont ever use anymore

i put windows in few years ago and call it the mock green house. then my 3rd spare bedroom i have set up as my seedling room until the winter then plants are everywhere and we can only stay in master bedroom and kitchen.... its crazy!!! but kinda funny to

So your screen porch with windows, correct? How hot is inside in a summer time?

So Mike they do OK on a screen porch right! I've been told so many times they have to be in direct hot sun; and I just know that's not true. The guys I have on my porch get very little direct sun but seem to be happy and healthy. I don't have any indoors because I have no luck (or skill) with them when I try to raise indoors. I have several at the base of a large black sapote tree that are in pots, lots of shade and some sun;they do very well too.While a batch that I have in the back of my house in full sun all day long do very poorly.

Jim

The problem is JIM, Those plants don't read the books and respond to what makes them feel good....
that's why we like to move them around to see what works....

Jim, how often you water the ones you have in full ?

I just have to laugh, we are getting so much rain I don't even have to think about watering anything out in the sun. The ones I have on the porch I tend to over water and I'm determined to water only once a month, drenching till water runs out the bottom. The seedlings I tend to spray with water twice a day and after I put them in 3"pots I will start soaking them every two weeks. I keep doing different things to see what works. I have learned that our sub tropical heat makes a difference then folks who grow them in other parts of the country.

the porch i have it is facing west and i get it close to the west side to get after noon sun but they will be back out as soon as i see a break in the rain. i have my large ones in full direct sun and these im moving are under 2 yo I do have some of my special collection in the porch all the time but they are in a sw window so they are getting a ton of bright lite and some good sun I have to open the vinal windows due to they have a uv protection.

The question how hot in side is it well with out a breeze its hot but i insulated the roof with a reflective barrier and the kick plates with that and spray foam to keep cooler in summer and warmer in winter, if the breeze is there its what ever tem is in the shade outside.

Jim, I understand you do not need to water right now, but you mention before your plants in full sun are not performing good, so don’t you think you need to water then more often if we have no rain.

Mike how did you insulate the roof?? I want to do it for a long time, but I do not know how. I want to use my FR but I can’t because the temperature is 110F during the summer.
I am thinking right now and doing a research how to install a portable AC. I have glass doors, the problem is I do not have an opening, so if I cut the glass how should I insulate or close if I remove the AC. I am looking for the solution

We have a portable a/c we use in case ours goes out and my DH made a thing like those doggie doors you put in sliding glass doors, that allows the unit to vent to the outside, and when not in use we just remove the whole contraption and slide the doors shut again. It was not a big project.