Bougainvillea...timing

[Carol 83]

Do you all bare-root during repot?

Yes

 

[RJG2]

While this thread is active, might as well ask:

Anyone throw a bit of kanuma in their mix? I'm trying about 25-30% with a cutting.

 

[leatherback]

Anyone throw a bit of kanuma in their mix? I'm trying about 25-30% with a cutting.

Nope. but then again, I do not live in Japan.

I do not bare-root on purpose. But I find the roots to be very brittle and a single fast move causes the rootball to disintegrate

 

[Cadillactaste]

While this thread is active, might as well ask:

Anyone throw a bit of kanuma in their mix? I'm trying about 25-30% with a cutting.

Nope...never. Actually never heard anyone use it for Bougainvillea.

 

[Clicio]

Nope...never. Actually never heard anyone use it for Bougainvillea.

But it makes sense as bougies like a somehow acidic soil.

 

[Cadillactaste]

But it makes sense as bougies like a somehow acidic soil.

Possibly... I just always have potted in what friends in Florida use. Since they grow more bougainvillea than the single one I have on my bench. If they find success...I guess I never looked further. Since my own experience has been successful with what it grows in. If it isn't broken...I don't fix it.

 

[RJG2]

But it makes sense as bougies like a somehow acidic soil.

That was my thinking. Figured a little bit wouldn't hurt, and I had 2/3rds of a bag left over from an azalea.

Just a recently rooted cutting anyway - we'll see.

 

[Clicio]

That was my thinking. Figured a little bit wouldn't hurt, and I had 2/3rds of a bag left over from an azalea.

Just a recently rooted cutting anyway - we'll see.

Now I am curious, let us know, please.

 

[RJG2]

Now I am curious, let us know, please.

Ha, now I wish I had taken two cuttings so I could use one as a control!