Changing their potting can be done any time - I have found the most critical factor in success and their continued health is light, strong light, which is easier for me to provide while using artificial fluorescent lighting.Man, very nice pics. I started quite a few gypsys from pullings this spring and they have all produced their winter leaves.Is this the time to repot them or maybe wait til later this winter? How many years do they usually take to mature?
Thanks,
Mark W.
Changing their potting can be done any time - I have found the most critical factor in success and their continued health is light, strong light, which is easier for me to provide while using artificial fluorescent lighting.
These are approximately 6-8 months since I started them from leaf pullings.
I'm not certain how much cold this species can tolerate, mine are often down to approximately 40F through the Winter, and the high can sometimes get near 100F on some sunny Summer days. I try to keep the plants as close to the cool-white fluorescent lights as I possibly can without having them touch the lights, but sometimes flower stalks grow too quickly and get damaged when they touch the lights. I give the plants about 14 hours of light in each 24 hour day, but sometimes I give them 16 hours of light or even 24 hours (lights on always), the more light I give them the better the plants look. In my experience they shift from Winter leaf form to Summer leaf form, almost randomly, some will be in either form at any time of the year even while growing in the same trays and under the same conditions.Hello Joseph,
It is really great plant !
May I know what will be the maximum tolerant temperature of this plant & what will be the distance between the plant and the artificial fluorescent lighting ?
Thanks !
I'm not certain how much cold this species can tolerate, mine are often down to approximately 40F through the Winter, and the high can sometimes get near 100F on some sunny Summer days.
Interesting..... for some reason I was under the impression that your plants were not receiving any seasonal fluctuation, either in terms of lighting or temperature. I had a mentl mage fo your ollection being in a large basement, under many artificial lights. Now it seems as though you may have them in a large greenhouse, under artificial lighting. Do you have a picture of your setup?
By the way, the specimen that you sent me, year ago, has now seen its second period of winter rosette. Oddly enough, its sprouted leaves, from several months ago, under identical conditions, haven't changed its leaf mode.