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Re: Jungle-porch Update: August

Hoyas! Love them, but mine won,t bloom! Both are 7 years old, but they have
been moved around sooo many times! Have yours been in the same place all
those years? The tendrils on mine are taking over...they even grew under the
molding at the top of the wall, and are trying to strangle their neighbors.
What can I do to make them bloom!


-----Original Message-----
From: Cami <cami@jps.net>
To: indoor-gardening@prairienet.org <indoor-gardening@prairienet.org>
Date: Friday, August 21, 1998 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: Jungle-porch Update: August


>>The porch jungle's gone through some changes since April.
>
>After reading one of your updates on your jungle, I usually feel like
>saying, "Wow!"
>
>As for my little indoor jungle, not a whole lot has been happening, though
>there have been a few things that I thought were exciting:
>
>-After 6 long years, my hoya finally flowered, and flowered like mad.  I
>couldn't keep up with all the flower umbels popping up on it.  After one
>group of flowers faded and dropped off, a few days later a new bunch was
>growing on the same spot.  The only thing I didn't like was the smell.
I've
>read so much about hoya's lovely scent, but mine had very little and in
fact
>kind of stank.  Oh well, the flowers were pretty.
>
>-My mini-dendrobium flowered again.  I thought last year was a fluke, but
>looks like I'm finally doing something right!  Also, one of the older
shoots
>produced a keiki.  I was waiting for it to develop roots so I could take it
>off and start a new plant, and one day I went to look at it and it had a
>flower spike!  It was a wonderful surprise.
>
>-I bought a kalenchoe 4 months ago on the discount shelf for 99 cents, and
>it's still blooming like mad.  I've never had much luck with these, and I
>think it was because I babied them too much.  This one is thriving on
benign
>neglect.
>
>-I also bought a lithop (living stone) on the same trip for 99 cents.  I've
>always thought they were neat and unusual, so I picked one up and stuck it
>in an extra clay pot I had sitting around.  I moved my plants around the
>other day, and saw that the lithop has babies inside.  I can't wait to see
>what happens.
>
>That's about it.  The African violets are flowering along as usual,
>everything else is growing nicely.
>
>Cami
>Oregon
>
>
>
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