got my Phal. I-Hsin sunflower

[Call_Me_Bob]

i got my phal I-hsin sunflower today!! it seems a little small though. the biggest leaf is 6 inches and the rest are about 4 inches i wish mine was as big as pilots! his at an 8 inch leaf. when i talked to hausermans, they said it should bloom this winter, but it doesnt look big enough to do that. :/ and one of the leaves is totally mangled. see pics.

[Call_Me_Bob]

here are more. see the leaf?

[Pilot]

Help--- I think this phal looks pretty good, actually. And I think I just got lucky with mine. Your's is plenty big, if given the proper cycle to inducing blooming, will bloom this winter. And besides, the price was amazing... they may be running out!

[Call_Me_Bob]

yeah

[Izzie]

Looks very healthy to me- and size isn't always an indicator of whether it will bloom. Yours looks plenty large enough to bloom given the proper conditions.
Hurt leaves happen- though that isn't really bad looking.

And I agree with Ryan- he probably got lucky. With those prices, I'd be surprised if they weren't running low.

[Pilot]

Izzie is right...you should see the state of the leaves on my hippeastrums after a windy afternoon here in Colorado...sheesh...like a dog chewed it-- yet they keep truckin'.

[Izzie]

Originally Posted by Pilot

Izzie is right...you should see the state of the leaves on my hippeastrums after a windy afternoon here in Colorado...sheesh...like a dog chewed it-- yet they keep truckin'.

Been there, done that.
Forget wind- try some hail like we had last july. x.x thought I was going to die out there rescuing plants.

[quiltergal]

The plant looks fine to me. It's getting ready to shed that bottom leaf so it won't be around for much longer anyway. What size pot did you buy?

[Call_Me_Bob]

i got the 3.5 inch pot

[quiltergal]

That's a pretty good size plant for a 3.5 inch pot. It will do just fine.