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Re: Reblooming your kalanchoe
> From: Keith Dabney <kdabney@CAS.calacademy.org>
> To: Helen Wu <xiaowei@worldnet.att.net>
> Cc: LFontan@pseg.com, indoor-gardening@prairienet.org
> Subject: Reblooming your kalanchoe
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 97 03:03:07 +0000
> On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Helen Wu wrote:
>
> > By the way - did anyone ever answer that posted question regarding kalanchoe
> > and dormancy?
> ====================
>
> However, I read that it is difficult to bloom them the following
> year, and nearly impossible to get the same amount of bloom that a
> commercial greenhouse grower does. One author recommended throwing
> the plant out and getting a new one. I'm not saying that you should
> give up and do that (far from it; it always seems so wasteful to
> throw out a perennial plant), but just wanted to warn you that it
> might not be easy getting it to bloom as nicely as it was probably
> blooming when you got it. Some of the books on succulents might give
> some useful suggestions for growing the plant from now on, sorry
> that I don't have any information on that.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Keith Dabney
>
>====================
To Kalanchoe Lovers (or whomever):
My experience may not be typical - however I grow my
Kalanchoe outside all year. They ARE tender so I watch for the real
cold weather (you know down into the forties) - then they come in for
the night and out they go the next day. The plants bloom every year.
I give them water and fetilizer and when they get too tall, I cut
them back. Other than that they are ignored. They do not go dormant
or get a rest. In fact now is the time for them to start blooming!
The plants are K. blossfeldiana - it has the little (1/4 -3/8 in.)
four-petaled flowers in reds, oranges, yellows.
Harry in Ocala, Florida - Zone 8/9
bloom 6-9 months of the year.
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