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Mustn't forget their beauty sleep

Hi everyone =)!

One more question to send you way ^_^.
I know binatas (and multifidias for that mater...) need their beauty sleep in winter...but what does that imply exactly? Cold and dark as usual, or just a bit drier and a shorter photoperiod?
 
some members of the complex such as marstons dragon and multifida "extrema" dont require a dormancy.

i treat my binatas like any other temperate plant.
 
I got a D. multifida extrema a little more than a year ago, and it has been continually growing in wet conditions, outdoors, in full sun, in zone 10.  The leaves died a few weeks ago.  Then about a week or two later, it began to grow again from the roots – in several places.  It’s now flowering.  Younger plants grown from leaf cuttings of the original plant did not die back.
 
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Quote[/b] (Sszvein @ Oct. 07 2004,8:10)]Hi everyone =)!

One more question to send you way ^_^.
I know binatas (and multifidias for that mater...) need their beauty sleep in winter...but what does that imply exactly? Cold and dark as usual, or just a bit drier and a shorter photoperiod?
*please deposit collective wisdom here*
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Cooler, less photoperiod, and drier conditions are implied. From what I have read, there are two basic types in circulation. One that goes through a dormant period and one that just slows down. Mine is a California X Hawaii and slows down.
 
That's it Jim, add more confusion in my poor little head.
And I was preparing pychologically to send them into dormancy too! Now you tell me they might not need it =P.
Well, I guess we'll see about that.
 
Mon pauvre petite soeur! You'll need to determine its pedigree. Sorry - again.
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So, if I have a basic D. Binata (regular fork leaves) then it DOES require dormancy?
 
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mm hmmm leave it out with the sarrs and vft.
 
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My D. binata, is already doing its dormancy thing (except for one lonly leaf) as is my D. filiformis 'California Sunset'. Like JLAP said, just leave them with the Sars and VFTs.
 
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