Den. Nobile uncertainty: Outdoor chill + repotting.

[aliceinwl]

I may be doing things wrong, but I’ve repotted mine in the fall when I’m concerned about the media so that I don’t have to worry about bad media and disrupting the flowers when they form in the spring and I start watering again. I usually watch the canes in the winter, when the cane just starts to wrinkle, I give them a light watering.

I imagine every hybrid is different. I have one where I’m growing the parent outside and the keikis inside in a sunny east window. Both have bloomed well. The parent growing outside does fine with winter lows in the low 40s to high 30s, I bring it in as a precaution on nights with predicted lows in the mid 30s or below. The windowsill keikis probably don’t see temperatures below the mid 60s.

Last year I was lazy and left the outdoor ones to get rained on in the winter. This was great for vegetative growth but I got almost no flowers. I’m planning to cut back on water in November this year. I stopped fertilizing in September but October has been really hot and they get a lot of sun so I haven’t felt comfortable cutting back too much on water yet.