Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Indoor gardens fall winter 2013, 1 by Gitagal
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Gitagal wrote: My house is so cold...I almost want to put the comforter on... I had many of my windows, and front door. open most of the day--well into the evening.. Now it is pretty cool in here....feels so different...so strange to be shivering a bit... I have not brought any plants in yet--they can deal with this coolness. But--it is foreboding that one of these nights--it will be a panic situation. I have formulated a plan of where I will keep all my AV's this winter. Everything I have done is OK--the re-potting really helped the Baby AV's. They have doubled in size. LOVE that "Lambert" AV soil. It is a canadian product. The peat moss in it feels like it is milled. So fine--it feels like velvet. It has Perlite in it as well. Water is absorbed into it immediately. I got it at the MD. Flower and Foliage GH. They wanted to get rid of the few bags they had laying around. So--I got 5 bags for FREE! I don't know WHY they even had it! They don't sell AV's!!! Anyway--back to my plan.... I bought a ganging light--the shiny metal one that looks like an upside down bowl. You screw a bulb in there and hang it from the ceiling. $14.97 at HD. I will put a card table in the far corner of my DR (where my Ric Rac used to hang) and put all the AV's (4 trays-full) under this light. I can raise and lower the light as needed. Will use a small chain to hang it by. MY AV's really, really need more light--and they have to get away from that cold LR window. Maybe that is why they have not bloomed. This way--I can use the shelves against my windows for other small plants--like my CC's (a lot of them too!)and they don't mind the cool temps., potted Spider plants, Begonia cuttings, etc... Right now--the Av's are all sitting under the lights on my seed starting rack. Will need that for cuttings and, eventually, for seed growing. Just thinking ahead... Today--I saw the beginnings of itsy bitsy bloom bumps at the tips of my larger CC's. All my smaller (now getting larger) CC's are still outside the front door. I think what is a bit detrimental to these blooming is that they sit right under my front door light--which is on all night. Same in the back--my patio "moon" is also on all night--so the CC's in both places, never get complete darkness that they, supposedly, need. I want SO bad to see the 6 CC's that JB mailed me last year bloom! Each one was a different color...They have grown much bigger from when I got them. SO! Not much else to report on the Inside Plants scenario. Bracing for THE night.... Gita http://catalogue.lambertpeatmoss.com/products/ Did not see any info. of retail places around here... Sent them a message asking if there are any . My Baby AV's re-potted in this AV Mix have doubled in size. |