Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Gita..., 0 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Well. Bec---

I have been struggling with all those same thoughts for a few years...
There has been so much discussion on what to do with all these long, skinny shoots--but all the advice
was from people that live in Florida...They have No worries--so advising me to let them be
is almost irrelevant...Like---
"Oh, they are just reaching for somewhere to anchor to...."
"They grow those long shoots if they are not happy!--they need more light!"
"Don't water these between October and February!"----Really????

I ask--should I cut them back? "NO!"--seems to echo from the South!
Well--I live in MD--and I have to bring it in for the winter--and, NO! it is NOT going to get much light
to speak of all through the winter....just barely passable light....

I have had the plant I gave you since 2005,. when I received 3 leaves from someone in CA.
Two of them were the Red Epis and the third was the NBC.

One of the Epis bloomed it's heart out last Summer...The other has never bloomed--
and neither did the NBC. Go figure????

here is how they all looked when they came into my life--summer of 2005.

Gita


Seems I have had these forever!!!