20 September: still small bloom but lot of new growth!
11 September- water helped!: so the water did help get back some bloom and also made my portulaca look little healthy. i water once every week & try to get it as much sunlight as possible.
1st September'09-no bloom! :Suddenly for around 20 days the portulaca stopped flowering but i could see new shoots everywhere. It was growing :-) But at the same time the few flowers it had were reduced to a penny size.... i checked on my forum "helpfulgardner" and was advised to water till the excess water runs out the container...you can see how dry i kept the poor plant in photo below!! .... was also told fertilizer in soil can make portulaca to grow & reduce flower size...weird!! but true!
14 August'09: So i planted the portulaca in the basket i bought from BIG LOTS.
Bought this on 11th August from Lowes for $1.99....in Meerut it used to be free! Just borrow a stem of it from friend and cover with soil...it grows fast. But i guess this hybrid is defenitely improved...the flowers seem to last for 2 days!! i remember those flowers in meerut lasted just daytime.
Still confused when to transplant, reading a lot of portulaca these days, trying to figure out what soil type, which part of the house will suit this new addition. Hopefully will transplant it by tomorrow into my co-co line wire basket!!
12th Aug'08 : had lovely bloom the very next day!
Final Destination of my portulaca!!
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