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Who Knows? by Kit & Ben Knotts - Click images to enlarge |
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| Since it is now mid-July and very early in our season, we have no idea what the rest of it has in store. But there are several tales to tell even now. The first is a documentary of the growth rate of Victoria cruziana when first installed in pond bottoms. We just happened to snap pictures at the right time to show this. See The Astounding Growth Rate of V. cruziana. | ||
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A preliminary report on how fall plants would do in 2007 Why Is That? is fairly amazing. The V. 'Adventure' in Treasures bloomed all winter and spring and, now in summer, is bigger than ever. It is blooming every third night like clockwork. Sand has been added around its crown once but nothing else has been done to help its survival except fertilization. | |
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From 2007 Speaking of Stalling, we are growing out two cruzianas stalled for more than a year and two started this spring. It's too early to tell how they all compare except that a stalled plant is already parenting at a nice size and a spring plant has achieved the greatest size we have ever had for cruziana and needs to stop getting bigger before it crowds everything else out of Reflection. A fifth plant is a survival story beyond our experience. Several cruzianas survived winter but struggled. Late in April we dug out of Reflection a barely alive plant that had been a primary parent in 2007. We chopped the old rhizome off, potted it down to 6" (15cm) and put it in slightly heated Sun. It got turned partly over. It got down to one half of a 4" (10cm) pad. It got righted and decided not to just live but thrive. It is now installed in Dune and only 1" (2.5cm) from its maximum 2007 size. It is one of our illustrations in The Astounding Growth Rate of V. cruziana. |
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