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Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door..              chelle Jul 11, 2012 7:37 AM CST |
Tap, tap, tap...impatiently tapping my foot here...  They're still alive. I haven't killed them yet - now, will they bloom this year, I wonder? I've seen them listed as annuals and biennials, and I started these around the first of march... tap, tap.... Almost all of my other (early started) seedlings have bloomed already... even some fast-growing perennials. [I wouldn't be quite as impatient if I'd ever not killed my dianthus!  It's always a race to see which happens first! ] |
Name: Allison NJ (Zone 6a)        |
mine rotted in the heavy rains  |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Jul 11, 2012 9:55 AM CST |
Oh, no!  So sorry, Allison. Do you still have seed? That's what mine has always done, too. I guess maybe the awful drought here is keeping mine alive...so far. |
Name: Allison NJ (Zone 6a) |
| yeah I think 1/2 the pack yet |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Jul 11, 2012 10:36 AM CST |
That's good.  |
Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a)         |
| chelle, are they budding yet? My current nemesis is begonias. Hopefully I will conquer them someday. In the past, it was platycodon. I WSowed it 4 or 5 years in a row with 0 germination. I finally bought a little plant, only to discover that I didn't like it that much Karen |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Jul 12, 2012 6:52 AM CST |
| Nope. No buds, yet. This is from a few days ago. They look the same this morning. They're in with Wine Cups that have been blooming for quite some time already. Your begonias didn't bloom? Ha! Platycodon...never found one that liked me, either. Seeds or plants.Another that I can't seem to grow is Jacob's Ladder.  Not at all sure why on that one. |
Name: Allison NJ (Zone 6a) |
| they look happy Chelle.. hopefully soon |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Jul 12, 2012 8:18 AM CST |
While I was out there I weeded out all of those MGs...maybe that will help speed things along.  |
Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a) |
| Might er next year for the dianthus chelle. Begonias: I tried begonia dragon wing this year, 12 cells. 11 sprouted. All 11 did well until plant out- 10 of 11 died  Karen |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Jul 12, 2012 4:58 PM CST |
Oh, gee! I hope not. They'll surely croak beforehand.  Sorry to hear that about your begonias. Any ideas as to what went wrong? Did they rot, or just fizzle away? |
Name: Allison NJ (Zone 6a) |
| always heartbreaking |
Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a) |
| We had rain- it was in early May- and I think they rotted in my clay soil. But I have a long, strong history of killing begonias They looked like this in April  Karen |
Name: Allison NJ (Zone 6a) |
| the big hanging basket of full grown begonias I bought.. withered away too.. and I usually have no problems .. I keep watering the container now to see if they come back.. but it doesn't look good |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Jul 12, 2012 7:18 PM CST |
| I have sticky clay too; the only begonias that will live in the ground here are wax begonias. They're one of my *staple* plants that I grow every year...in blinding white. |
Name: Karen Cincinnati, Oh (Zone 6a) |
| Usually wax begonias do OK for me. But last year we had twice or normal rainfall, and they didn't do so well. They lived thru summer, but never thrived. This was last September. Alive, but not stellar. I grew those under lights from seed. They stayed the same size all summer.  Karen |
Name: Allison NJ (Zone 6a) |
| have to container them.. they like it moist |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Jul 12, 2012 8:34 PM CST |
| Allison, are you referring to the dragon wing, or the wax? The wax I have now are doing pretty well considering we've had no rain, they're under a thick tree canopy, and they've only had two additional waterings since transplanting...it's one of the things I like most about them. I don't think mine are seed started however, maybe that makes a difference in vigor/ water needs? |
Name: Allison NJ (Zone 6a) |
| I like them all in containers.. with the coir.. keeps a nice even moisture level |
Name: Michele Roth N.E. Indiana - Zone 5b I'm always on my way out the door.. chelle Jul 13, 2012 5:43 AM CST |
| Ah! I see. I'm liking containers more and more each year, too. |
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