Viewing post #1005351 by drdawg

You are so right. What is now second-nature to me (growing tropical plants.........nothing else though ) was mostly hit-and-miss a decade ago. After a hundred "hits" and several hundred "misses" , I learned what to do and more importantly, what not to do. That's why I include growing/care instructions with all my plants. I keep it as straight forward and as simple as possible. Needless to say, one can't cover all the bases when growing tropical plants. Growing conditions range from A to Z. Heck, there are lots of books written on "How to ..............".

One thing I always try to do is to approach answers to questions based my actual experiences, rather than on a scientific or a book-learned basis. Sometime this is hard to do. My professional education and training was all scientifically based but fortunately (or unfortunately), not my gardening.