Flower Month

Flower Month

Gloxinia enthusiasts sometimes employ widely divergent methods of caring for their plants. If you have been getting satisfactory results from your particular routine, then I say by all means adhere to it no matter how unorthodox it may sound when compared with another. The important factor is that it gives good results for you and so is far better than blundering along with someone else's method. However, for the benefit of those whose moat patient efforts have resulted in failure, may I outline the care that is given to the four oldest Gloxinias in my collection?

Potted in well-cracked clay pots a mixture of fine garden soil, a little fine sand and a generous quantity of leaf mold, and with the necks of the bulbs slightly below the surface of the soil they stand on the wide ledge of an east window. Here the first signs of growth after dormancy usually appear about February sometimes earlier, sometimes later.

The soil in the pot from then on is kept moist, but never soggy. Also as the plants. increase is size and the spring sun raises the room temperature the need for an increase in the amount of water required to achieve the desired condition is apparent. While warm rain water given mostly from below, is my favored method, an additional dash to the top of the pot is often added. If necessary warm tap water will do. I avoid deliberate wetting of the leaves but have never observed harmful results from a few accidental drops nor from rain drenchings received while out of doors in the summer.

Plants may remain in the same place right through blossoming, however, if one has a well-lighted north -window or a place slightly back from the direct rays of the sun the blossoms will tend to remain in good condition a little longer.

By the first week in June the last flowers have Usually faded and the weather has become settled enough to allow the plants still in the pot, to be set in a sheltered shaded noon to the north of the house or on a semi-enclosed porch. They are then allowed to grow along or remain at a standstill, as they will, still receiving water, but less copiously on the theory that by remaining green they. should store energy for next spring's blooming. If they have a short period of flowering while here, well and good.

September heralds the return of the Gloxinias to the east window. One by one the leaves are removed as they deteriorate and finally the shriveled stem is cut off flush with the surface of the soil. Even during this time water is never entirely withheld, but much less is given than when in foliage. Leaves removed in this process are seldom suitable for propagation. Those wanted for this purpose are better obtained soon after the flowering period ends.

Winter daytime temperatures are those of a normal room in which one is active and night temperatures are comparable to those in any furnace-heated home. The bulbs are usually dormant during the coldest portion of the season and begin growth with early spring's lengthened days.

To attest that this method is workable, I have three 33 year old Gloxinias and one 25 years old that have been handled in this manner throughout. At this spring's flowering, though in need of repotting, they bore 34, 18, 9, and 24 blossoms respectively and two have budded again.

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