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 Post subject: my own little mammoth
PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:56 pm 
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Just wanted to share the photo with you guys :D


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:26 pm 
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These are quite magnificent plants when grown well. I always seemed to do ok with them in their first year (due to the growers expertise) but I could never get the bulbs to grow well afterwards. For me it was a downward spiral as the bulbs got smaller each year. :oops:

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Hi Terry

I have no idea how this one (well there 2 mother bulbs in the pot – one with 2 babies and another with only one) survives me as it spends most of the year outside on the balcony :D from Feb 2009 till first snow in December it was out. No watering just a bit of rain. Now it drinks like horse – about 2 liters a week! And after flowering I just use the leftovers from orchids to feed/water it :)

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My Gran had great sucsess with these 20 years ago, they never failed to flower for her and I don't know how she did it, she must of had 12 or 15 of them in the end. She loved them.
All I can remember is she used to throw the dregs of the cold tea from the teapot on them :lol: that seemed to be the answers to all her plant problems.

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