Roy wrote:
Refresh my memory on your dwarf version of Mexican Weeping.
This spring I picked up a couple 1-gal Otatea acuminata ssp. aztecorum 'Dwarf' plants from Bamboo Headquarters. I don't have any pictures to show you but they are just what they say - dwarf versions of the Mexican Weeping. Little baby boos.
I have one in a pot on my back covered porch (I gave the other one away). I water it once a week, and it is very happy. If I remember I'll take a picture of it to add to the pictures section of Bambooweb, since there currently aren't any pictures here. Here is a link to the Otatea species list: http://tinyurl.com/34ycph
Roy wrote:
Refresh my memory on your dwarf version of Mexican Weeping.
This spring I picked up a couple 1-gal Otatea acuminata ssp. aztecorum 'Dwarf' plants from Bamboo Headquarters. I don't have any pictures to show you but they are just what they say - dwarf versions of the Mexican Weeping. Little baby boos.
I have one in a pot on my back covered porch (I gave the other one away). I water it once a week, and it is very happy. If I remember I'll take a picture of it to add to the pictures section of Bambooweb, since there currently aren't any pictures here. Here is a link to the Otatea species list: http://tinyurl.com/34ycph
-mike.
Oh yes, the basketball baby.
A dwarf form of the above. Looks like a basketball.
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Well it hasn't rained for 4 days, and we aren't supposed to get any rain for the next 5 days, so instead of stressing my Mexican Weeping by pulling it out of the ground I'm going to see how it looks at the end of this dry spell. Hopefully I'll see some recovery.
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mantis wrote:Will it hasn't rained for 4 days, and we aren't supposed to get any rain for the next 5 days, so instead of stressing my Mexican Weeping by pulling it out of the ground I'm going to see how it looks at the end of this dry spell. Hopefully I'll see some recovery.
One of the bad things, about all the unexpected rains Texas has been getting, is that your plants have become accustomed to not having to put out longer roots for water and now if the rain "turned off", then it won't take long before your plants will start to get stressed because of the lack of water.
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Roy Rogers
Southern Tampania de la Floridana Universidad (STFU)
STFU Motto: All Bamboos are not Created Equal; @ STFU, the Search Continues
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Roy wrote:
One of the bad things, about all the unexpected rains Texas has been getting, is that your plants have become accustomed to not having to put out longer roots for water and now if the rain "turned off", then it won't take long before your plants will start to get stressed because of the lack of water.
Yep. I pulled up a D. minor 'Amoenus' last weekend that had been in the ground for over a year, and the rootball was tiny. I fully expect my plants to drop a lot of leafs when the weather turns dry. The good thing is that Houston doesn't really have a dry season, but gets a decent amount of precipitation year round. Plus since my yard is so small and I have a sprinkler system I can keep the boo happy if we do hit a dry spell.
Location: Harlingen, TX Zone 10, Sunset Zone 27. 33' above sea level. 27 inches of rain/year. 22 Miles to the Laguna Madre. 27 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. 17 miles from Mexico. Lower Rio Grande Valley - Deep South Texas
Roy wrote:
One of the bad things, about all the unexpected rains Texas has been getting, is that your plants have become accustomed to not having to put out longer roots for water and now if the rain "turned off", then it won't take long before your plants will start to get stressed because of the lack of water.
I think that stress is what happened to some of my B. Eutuldoides "viridivittata"... I planted a long row of alternating B. Lako and B. Eutuldoides "viridivittata"... then it rained for a very long time and then three days of no rain did them in. Going from "just right" in a pot to "what the ____" in the ground was too much for them. I think I lost 3 out of 12. They are easy to propagate and I still have one in a pot at the house. Not a big loss... other than time. One of the D. Minor "amoenus" that I thought was dead is showing signs on one branch that new leaves are coming back since we have not had rain for a day and a half.
Never seen this much rain. They now say we could go though several weeks of dry. Although rain clouds are everywhere right now.
I just had a revelation... it isn't rain that is killing my Mexican Weeping, because it looked great during all of the rains. Instead what is killing it is now that it's stopped raining it is getting 100% pure TX sun all afternoon, and the poor boo is getting fried.
I just had a revelation... it isn't rain that is killing my Mexican Weeping, because it looked great during all of the rains. Instead what is killing it is now that it's stopped raining it is getting 100% pure TX sun all afternoon, and the poor boo is getting fried.