My little satsuki
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shinmai
Chumono
Very pretty. How is it that it’s in bloom now? Have you had it inside for the winter?
Do you know the cultivar? Lucky you if it continues to throw those beautiful solid pink selfs.
Do you know the cultivar? Lucky you if it continues to throw those beautiful solid pink selfs.
Leo in N E Illinois
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That is nice.
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
I've often wished I could time my satsuki to bloom when I want them to. I imagine it takes all kinds of greenhouse tricks. Maybe not to get early but to delay blooming, which is what I'd want, to coincide with the local show.
This is a pretty flower, what type?
This is a pretty flower, what type?
namnhi
Masterpiece
Nice and simple blossom... Just the way I like it.
junmilo
Shohin
Iast year it only bloomed 3 flowers..most of the flower bulb died..
I kept it outside during late spring, summer and fall.. Inside during the winter beside South facing window...kept it dry not too dry (watering once a week and misting in between watering) for about 3/4 of the winter until three weeks ago... I increased watering/misting to 3 times a week....it just started to bloom like this.. Here's more updated photos..i need to figure out what pot to put it in.
The little guy beside it in the first photo is a cutting from last year... From a variety that I don't know...the two flower bud are swelling too..
Leo in N E Illinois
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Vivid flower color. Nice.
@JudyB
Somewhere I have an article or two, one is from appendix of R. Callahan's Satsuki Book that is now out of print on hours of chill required to set flowers and then force bloom for Satsuki. Basically, in autumn, chill until you see buds form, and have met the "magic" number of hours below 46F or 6 C. Then depending on whether it is a Kurume type or early, mid season, or late Satsuki, you have X number weeks to bloom after raising temperature over 60F days and daylength over 12 hours. Bingo, it blooms. Once you know the number of weeks for a specific cultivar, you can count back from the desired date, to know when to pull it out of cold storage.
@JudyB
Somewhere I have an article or two, one is from appendix of R. Callahan's Satsuki Book that is now out of print on hours of chill required to set flowers and then force bloom for Satsuki. Basically, in autumn, chill until you see buds form, and have met the "magic" number of hours below 46F or 6 C. Then depending on whether it is a Kurume type or early, mid season, or late Satsuki, you have X number weeks to bloom after raising temperature over 60F days and daylength over 12 hours. Bingo, it blooms. Once you know the number of weeks for a specific cultivar, you can count back from the desired date, to know when to pull it out of cold storage.
