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Re: Kalanchoe

> Reply-to:      LFontan@pseg.com
> From:          LFontan@pseg.com
> To:            indoor-gardening@prairienet.org
> Subject:       Kalanchoe
> Date:          Thu, 16 Oct 97 12:30:24 +0000

>  My experience may not be typical - however  I grow my 
> Kalanchoe outside all year. 
> ===================
> Harry, do you have them in direct sun or shade.  I put mine outside
> under direct sun and it looked scorched. I keep it indoors with no
> sun, could this be why the edges are yellowing?  Should I move it to
> the South window?
> 
> ....Lysette
>===================

 Lysette: 
     All my kalanchoes are in direct sun - maybe 3 or 4  hours a day. 
 (they were moved 'gradually' into full sun.)  New plants are 
placed in mostly high shade (speckled? dappled? mottled? shade) for 
about two weeks until they get full sun.  If you can sneak yours up 
to the south window, it should do well.      As for your leaves 
yellowing - it could indeed be due to low light. Kalanchoes  like 
plenty of light .  The leaves should (mostly) be of a uniform color. 
    
                    <goes away - comes back>  

     I just went out and looked at kalanchoe plants.  The leaves (on 
different plants) are different shades of yellowish-green on one, to 
a deep green with rosey edges on another. I assume (yes,  I know!) 
this atypical leaf color is due to the differing genes in the plants. 
In my unscientific way (and after looking at the lables <G>),  I 
equate the darker leaf colors with darker bloom color. It appears 
that the plants with the dark/rosey leaves have blooms approaching 
dark red/purple - those with yellow flowers have the pale leaves.     

                           Harry in Ocala, Florida - Zone 8/9
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