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[INDOOR-GARDENING:7] Re: Scutellaria Costaricana

In a message dated 1/10/99 2:18:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, kng@c2i.net
writes:


 
 I'm a gardener from Norway and very interrested in growing Scutellaria
costaricana professionally.
 I've got 2000 square metres of indoor greenhouse available. The problem is I
can't get hold of any info on how to propagate this variety of Scutellaria. I
have appr. 300 motherplants now, but how should I go on? Is it a long or short
day plant, does it need a cold period for inducing flowers, any need for
growth regulators and so on...
 Thanks in advance for ANY info you can supply for Scutellaria Costaricana
 Tom Nalum, Sandefjord, Norway >>

HERE ARE TWO RECENT MESSAGES FROM ALPINE-L:

1.  
Scutellaria costaricensis is a very beautiful tropical plant with bright
orange/red and yellow flowers.  Logee's Greenhouses in Danielson, CT carries
it, and often has a photograph of it in their catalogues.  It will bloom at
any time of year, but I have found it to be tricky as a houseplant when I have
tried it--it is subject to every pest imaginable, and is very unforgiving of a
missed watering or any other mistreatment.  It may fare better in a
greenhouse--Logees certainly has nice specimen ones when I have visited--but
be prepared to battle the bugs.  A well grown plant will grow about a meter
plus tall (can be kept much smaller), and is very showy when in bloom.
Propagation is simple--cuttings root readily.

Tuckahoe NY--winter came late but arrived with a vengenc


2.  
This is a subtropical mountainous plant that is mostly dormant in the
winter.  It should be kept on the dryish side with only very modest
fertilization with a low-nitrogen fertilizer.  It might need some
suplimental light in the winter, or more likely, to get it started again in
the spring.  It will probably need staking, and will grow well in the
hottest summer months.

The flowers are spectacular, 2 inches long, orange with a yellow mouth, on
burgundy stems and dark green spinach-like foliage. It and its cousin, Sc.
moiciniana, can tolerate being potbound and being dormant for long periods.


Greensboro, NC  27406

Hope that helps.

Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY 
z4
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