Working with Pelargoniums in Early Winter. I've got a new Propagator 😆
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video Mr Pelargonium gives advice about taking your Pelargoniums into the winter period. He also explains why he's going mad about growing Standard Pelargoniums. He also reports on a visit to the PAGS Chairman's greenhouse where he picked up loads of plants and cuttings necessitating the need to quickly get hold of a propagator 🤣😆
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I popped over to Steve does he have a youtube channel!! Really appreciate your time and help 👍👍👍👍👍
Hi Graham, no he doesn't.
I have kept zonal pelargoniums as houseplants on the windowsill for years. They bloom well throughout the year, but are leggy, crooked and have small and relatively few leaves. I assumed they were defective because they weren't big and bushy like garden centre plants. Your channel shows a different side of growing these plants, which is way more applicable to indoor growing even if we don't exhibit. I cut my plants back hard and can already see lots of new shoots at the base. I would love to see a video on tips for growing theses plants indoors as flowering plants.
Thanks and some good advice. Realistically the techniques are not that different. The only main difference is that you will be required to turn the plants a lot more as indoors they tend to have one directional light unlike in a greenhouse. I will though give it a mention in a future video.
@@thepagsociety Thank you for responding. My plants were originally garden centre plants and are probably now cuttings of cuttings. They are hot pink with orange centres and provide cheerful blooms all year, even throughout the Canadian winter. Interestingly, red or white ones never did as well on the windowsill. If you are able to do a video, here are some questions: The roots are never very deep in the pot: Is this a problem? If I'm not timing blooms for an exhibition, can I try to shape the plant at any time of year? Also, when and how does one begin to shape a cutting? My cuttings are always small and crooked. Is there a point at which a plant gets too old? Your videos are a goldmine of information. Thanks again.
@@ef8409 Hi, I will do a Q and A session soon to answer questions asked. David
Thank you for one more lesson and for a good idea! What do you think about standards pelorgoniums with two trunks, one shorter and the second longer? Two trunks from one plant.
Well yes, although it wouldn’t be a standard but a trained plant instead. I have seen trained plants with two stems of the same length up a single stick for instance. I think this is quite a common method. David
@@thepagsociety, thank you for the answer! I have an idea to try this, because I have a pelargonium which I grown from a little, little stem, but it doesn't want to flower. It got high, I cutted it in the autumn, now I have two high trunks and it always looses lower leaves. I think about an experiment with two trunks, but with a different highness.
I’ve just started growing pelargoniums this year, and having watched your video, I’m confused as I’m told that they don’t like too much humidity. You have, however a lid on your new propagation tray. Can you help me with that.
Yes you are absolutely right they don't like humidity. I'm having to get used to the vent controls in the lid which I have now fully opened which has virtually stopped the humidity build up inside. I was just a bit concerned that they might get a bit too cool as the days are getting colder now even though the floor of the propagator is heated. I've seldom had cuttings at this time of year so, even for me, it's a bit of a learning curve in using a heated propagator. Even when I had my nursery I seldom had cuttings going after October but up to that stage kept them all in a whole propagating greenhouse with a minimum temperate of 20c!! 🤣 Regards David.
@@thepagsociety thanks that’s very helpful
Hello ,I’m relatively new the the gardening game. Just asking do you heat your glass house. As I’ve just got myself a little heater because that’s what in thought I needed to do . But you are saying open all the windows. I’m confused.
Hi, No problem. For pelargoniums, that I specialise in, it’s just a question of keeping them frost free so I have a heater that just comes on when the temperature falls below 5c mostly at night. Pelargoniums don’t like the damp, so when it’s dry outside I fully open the greenhouse to let fresh air circulate. The only time I would keep it closed on dry days in the winter would be when it is freezing cold. Hope this clarifies. David
@@thepagsociety Great thanks for a quick response. You have a good tidy glasshouse . I think I need to address that too Thankyou.