Comments on: Gardenia http://www.flowersgrowing.com/gardenia/ Your personal florist | All about flowers, gardening, plants, arrangements, flower shops Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:30:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: evashah http://www.flowersgrowing.com/gardenia/#comment-48595 evashah Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:20:51 +0000 http://www.flowersgrowing.com/gardenia/#comment-48595 Hi, I have gardenia's as houseplants. I was curious as to what you would suggest would be the right amount of light for my gardenia's? Also which variety of gardenia is the most fragrant? - Eva S. Blog: http://homeplants.blogspot.com Hi,
I have gardenia’s as houseplants. I was curious as to what you would suggest would be the right amount of light for my gardenia’s? Also which variety of gardenia is the most fragrant?

- Eva S.
Blog: http://homeplants.blogspot.com

]]> By: swucci http://www.flowersgrowing.com/gardenia/#comment-48463 swucci Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:12:55 +0000 http://www.flowersgrowing.com/gardenia/#comment-48463 I currently have 2 gardenia plants inside a large sun room that is off our kitchen. It has floor to ceiling windows on 2 sides and these windows face the north and west.My gardenia plants are Miami Supreme and Aimee Yashioka. I have them set up where they can get the most light in the sun room. I also have a 4-humidifier placed between the 2 plants and it runs every day until it is empty- about 10 hours. I have a fan that runs occasionally. One plant is 2 feet tall and the other is over 4 feet tall. On each plant I have positioned 3 lights that go on from 3:30 pm until 2:00 am every day since late September. These lights are: (2) 75 watt plant lights and (1) 100 watt compact daylight florescent light. The temp in the room is about upper 60's during the day-maybe 70, and at night it is between 58-60 degrees. At this point, each plant is loaded with buds! The Miami Supreme bloomed 1 flower 2 days ago and it is beautiful. However, the Aimee Yashioka, I have never seen bloom yet, yet it has at least 20 buds on it. Some of these buds have been forming since before Thanksgiving.The plant looks healthy. Are they getting enough of light to make the blooms open? The Miami Supreme opened, but not the Aimee. Should I change anything? I have also noticed that many leaves have brown crusty dried up spots on the leaves. It looks like the leaf is totally dead on those spots. This is happening to leaves that are far away from the lights and some that are close. It doesn't look like any fungus or mildew as I use to grow roses and I know what that looks like. Any suggestions? I guess I should be blessed just that they are getting through the winter. But with all these blooms, I want them to open. I water each plant about once a week with about 1 quart of water. About 3 weeks ago, I fertilized with a slow release fertilizer. Yesterday, I gave them some chelated iron, bloodmeal, as well as miracid fertilizer. Any suggestions??? Suzanne Milford, CT I currently have 2 gardenia plants inside a large sun room that is off our kitchen. It has floor to ceiling windows on 2 sides and these windows face the north and west.My gardenia plants are Miami Supreme and Aimee Yashioka. I have them set up where they can get the most light in the sun room. I also have a
4-humidifier placed between the 2 plants and it runs every day until it is empty- about 10 hours. I have a fan that runs occasionally. One plant is 2 feet tall and the other is over 4 feet tall. On each plant I have positioned 3 lights that go on from 3:30 pm until 2:00 am every day since late September. These lights are: (2) 75 watt plant lights and (1) 100 watt compact daylight florescent light. The temp in the room is about upper 60’s during the day-maybe 70, and at night it is between 58-60 degrees.
At this point, each plant is loaded with buds! The Miami Supreme bloomed 1 flower 2 days ago and it is beautiful. However, the Aimee Yashioka, I have never seen bloom yet, yet it has at least 20 buds on it. Some of these buds have been forming since before Thanksgiving.The plant looks healthy. Are they getting enough of light to make the blooms open? The Miami Supreme opened, but not the Aimee. Should I change anything?
I have also noticed that many leaves have brown crusty dried up spots on the leaves. It looks like the leaf is totally dead on those spots. This is happening to leaves that are far away from the lights and some that are close. It doesn’t look like any fungus or mildew as I use to grow roses and I know what that looks like.
Any suggestions? I guess I should be blessed just that they are getting through the winter. But with all these blooms, I want them to open. I water each plant about once a week with about 1 quart of water. About 3 weeks ago, I fertilized with a slow release fertilizer. Yesterday, I gave them some chelated iron, bloodmeal, as well as miracid fertilizer. Any suggestions???
Suzanne
Milford, CT

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