5 Good Neofientias Everyone Should Have

[LinhT]

Originally Posted by camille1585

Shannan, your Fugaku looks different than mine. Mine has leaves that are less round and much yellower. Each new leaf is puts out is yellower than the last. It's nice, but it's losing the variegation that I liked so much. I'm trying to take a picture right now to show you.

Camille, you probably don't have to worry much about the leaf color on your Fugaku. I think there's a lot of variation from plant to plant on this one. The color on your root tips still look fine. I've given several of my neos too much light before and the root tips turned a very bright pink.

Here's a pic of my Fugaku. It's a yellow/ lime green too and was that way when I got it.


I'm not talking "ruby red roots" bright pink. I'm talkin' "you're frying my butt off, you freak" bright pink. After I backed off a little on the light, the root tips turned back to the normal red they were before. Oh, and I just realized that's my toe in the background. Great

[kavanaru]

Originally Posted by LinhT

I'm not talking "ruby red roots" bright pink. I'm talkin' "you're frying my butt off, you freak" bright pink.

love it!

[Sandy4453]

You beat me to it kavanaru!!!

Originally Posted by LinhT

I'm not talking "ruby red roots" bright pink. I'm talkin' "you're frying my butt off, you freak" bright pink.

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by LinhT

Camille, you probably don't have to worry much about the leaf color on your Fugaku. I think there's a lot of variation from plant to plant on this one. The color on your root tips still look fine. I've given several of my neos too much light before and the root tips turned a very bright pink.

Here's a pic of my Fugaku. It's a yellow/ lime green too and was that way when I got it.


I'm not talking "ruby red roots" bright pink. I'm talkin' "you're frying my butt off, you freak" bright pink. After I backed off a little on the light, the root tips turned back to the normal red they were before. Oh, and I just realized that's my toe in the background. Great

After those posts, I decided to move my Fugaku to lower light, and now, after 2 weeks the yellow leaves are getting their green variegation. Unless the green appears as the leaves age?? I'll have to experiment with light to see what happens!

[LinhT]

Originally Posted by camille1585

After those posts, I decided to move my Fugaku to lower light, and now, after 2 weeks the yellow leaves are getting their green variegation. Unless the green appears as the leaves age?? I'll have to experiment with light to see what happens!

Good move, Camille! Lowering the light does make the green parts a darker green on the variegated neos. For one of my tora-fu variegated ones it took a significant decrease in light for the variegation to go from gold+lime green to medium green+cream. Some of my variegated ones do show more clear variegation as the leaves age though. They're so many of these little guys!! They all seem to be so different! That's what makes them so fun though, for me at least.