Re: from Spain
- Subject: Re: from Spain
- From: d* f*
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:33:03 -0700 (PDT)
Edward,
Even though you are giving the plant as much light as
your climate can manage, it is not the same as full
sun in a medit climate location, and the stems are
developing without the rigidity they would have in a
sunnier and hotter situation. Grown inside, the light
intensity is much less. Bringing the plant outdoors
in the warmer months,(the longest period you can
safely do so), would probably help with this, as would
pruning in the manner you have yourself suggested, to
develop more woodiness. I suspect that the lack of
winter sun is also a culprit, do you supplement with
other high intensity light in winter? Here in
California, the only pruning an oleander ever requires
is to control for size...
--- Ekmarsf@aol.com wrote:
> In fact the plants I refer to spend most of the time
> in a conservatory, so
> plenty of light and sun.
> To achieve the tree-like head to the plant I suspect
> there is some sort of
> selection needed of stems at annual pruning time, so
> that the selected stems
> are not cut back but only tipped and hence are
> stouter in the second year./
> I would much appreciate hearing from anyone with
> experience
> Edward Faridany
>
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