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Elijablue
Wheaton, IL (Zone 5b)
April 12, 2010 6:42 PM Post #7700862
| My thunbergia seedlings have been growing well, and are now getting tall and wanting to climb. They are reaching up to the lights. They can't go outside for 4 more weeks. I'm wondering if I can pinch them to get them bushier, and also keep them a little shorter for now.
They are not leggy from lack of light - have been under lights since they germinated, but they are running out of room! |
CLScott
Calgary
Canada
April 13, 2010 8:39 AM Post #7702316
| The growers around here cut them off for travel and they grow just fine.
Otherwise the vines get tangled in each other.
They will bush out . |
Elijablue
Wheaton, IL (Zone 5b)
April 13, 2010 3:30 PM Post #7703290
| Thanks for your advice. I thought it would be OK to pinch them, just wanted to double check!
Eli |
CLScott
Calgary
Canada
April 14, 2010 3:05 PM Post #7705820
| You can probably root the pieces that you cut off and get more plants. |
Elijablue
Wheaton, IL (Zone 5b)
April 14, 2010 6:51 PM Post #7706297
| Ooops. I pinched them yesterday, and put the "tops" in my compost bin! Too bad I didn't know to do this. I think there were 2 shorter plants that I did not pinch yet - maybe I can root those. Do I root them in water, or soiless mix?
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CLScott
Calgary
Canada
April 15, 2010 5:42 AM Post #7706956
| Either will work. |
Elijablue
Wheaton, IL (Zone 5b)
April 15, 2010 7:25 AM Post #7707195
| Thanks for your advice CLScott. I'll try to root the others.
Eli |
ROSES_R_RED
Mount Bethel, PA (Zone 6a)
April 18, 2010 12:24 PM Post #7715469
| I bring in some small branches that I have cut from overgrown bushes, stick them in the pot with the vine and use it as a trellis wrapping the tendrils around all the branch's smaller branches. |
CLScott
Calgary
Canada
April 18, 2010 10:02 PM Post #7716980
| Good idea! |
KayJones
Panama City Beach, FL (Zone 8b)
April 19, 2010 2:41 PM Post #7718851
| If you tossed them into the compost pile, toss some of the compost on top of the cuttings and they will root there, then you can pot them up. |
Elijablue
Wheaton, IL (Zone 5b)
April 19, 2010 6:06 PM Post #7719453
| What a great idea! I'll have to go out and check on them and pull them out if I see them rooting! Thanks Kay.
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KayJones
Panama City Beach, FL (Zone 8b)
April 19, 2010 6:15 PM Post #7719489
| Enough of the un-cut tip has to be exposed so it can breathe. |
