I live in Southern Ontario. I had 2 Hibiscus plants growing in my backyard last summer. In October I replanted them in pots to bring them indoors over the winter. I put them by my Bay window to get some light during the short winter months. Recently I tried this. I completely covered the plants with clear plastic bags. I put plates filled with water under them just to keep the humidity in. The base of the pots were not actually in the water but just above. I also put a heating pad under each plant. Nice and humid. Amazingly after about 2 weeks I see they have bloomed. I was just hoping to keep these plants alive till spring with this method and wasn't expecting them to bloom. What a surprise. No fertilizer. Just keep the plants moist.
@@sandrj2341 I brought the plants outside in the spring after the last frost. They are blooming fantastically. Still lots of blooms left before the first frost then I'll do it all over again.
@@poochie49 I'm curious how long you kept the clear plastic bags over the plants? I will need to bring my hibiscus in soon (October) and probably can't bring them outside until April/May. I live in CT(zone 6b). I'm trying to figure out the best way to keep my hibiscus plant alive over the winter.
@@kerridube5772 If I remember I put the clear plastic bags on sometime around January. The plastic bags do retain moisture as opposed to the dry heated inside temperature and low humidity. Just a note I tried to overwinter them the second year but they just didn't survive. Of course they were much larger than after the first year. Your experiment may end up with better results, so good luck.
THANK YOU! not everyone talks about overwintering options and I’m freaking out. What do I do now? 😆 I don’t want to continue spending money every year buying plants when I can take care of them and keep them year after year.
The "how" and the "why" make all the difference. Thank you so much for such a great video right at a time when I was wondering what to do with my hibiscus this winter and other videos I watched didn't seem to say much. Very helpful!
I finally found a full yellow, with a white center, super cool since I couldn’t find any yellow without the red in the middle but it’s also planted 2 orange ones I might divide them tho
Omg love hibiscus. Just started harvesting my flower petals for tea. I have a beautiful variegated high white leaf hibiscus and a lipstick. I also have a ballet slipper that is in the mallow family so I don't harvest those but it's blooms are gigantic so I love it. I'm zone 9.😘🤗🤗🤗😎
Thanks! I was just wondering about harvesting petals for tea. I'm in zone 10-11. Winter weather is down to 40s at night but still in 70s in the day. Wondering if I can blanket them at night? Really don't want to move them in. Can I use plastic sheet with holes?
@@kathynoll4634 tea is from the tropical roselle hibiscus and it’s the fruit from the spent flowers the one in this video isn’t for tea but you can eat the flowers, it’s used in Hawaii for salads I guess 😂 but yea the roselle ones are the tea cultivar native to Jamaica I think?
Thank you so much, excellent information! I spent most of last year asking my 5 year old hibiscus "What exactly do you want from me? Why are you dying today?" The biggest fight was with spider mites as you mentioned. If she survives the transition inside this year (zone 7) she will get a shower every month.
Great video, I live through all of my planty friends that can grow plants like this indoors, next year I'm hoping to have a green house and then I can have all sorts of fun. The weather here in Idaho has turned to wet, cold and crazy. It now drops below 40 degrees at night, I am so not ready for winter. Hibiscus are such a beautiful plant that I want to have some to grow in a greenhouse. Thanks for this video Jeff, fun to see what plant life is like in other states. I hope you have a great weekend and I will see you soon, bye for now.
Nature has made us (even plants lol) all imperfectly perfect in all our own individual unique ways. Yet another awesome informative and educational video that is beautiful to look at at the same time, thank you so very much Jeff. 👏👏👏👏👏
Hi Jeff! Another very informative and educational video! I've never grown a hibiscus, but they are beautiful! The flower on the "Chatty Kathy" is so pretty! When my sister and I were little (many moons ago) we both had Chatty Kathy dolls. I think I just really showed my age group here! LOL! I love you and your videos, even if I don't have a particular plant. In one of your comments below about your "Bubblegum" hibiscus, you said it was full of bugs ~ then I realized that you meant full of buds..... LOL! Thank you so much for sharing!
I love them so much. In my zone 8b/9a tropical hibiscus are used a lot like hardy hibiscus, as a die back, although warmer winters they’ll stay semi evergreen and will continue to grow. Very vigorous in spring; they can go from the ground all the way to 6+ feet in 1 summer.
Oh that sounds so pretty! I need to move! Just had our first day in the 70s today and I hated it... going to be in trouble in a few weeks when it's 20°f outside! 😂
I live in zone 8b and the winter will literally take the plant to the grave, my blueberries and Hardy azaleas got frost burn and broke apart, it definitely depends if we have a harsh winter tho
I'm glad I subbed. I like u lol very informative. I like the long vids too. That bloom u chose to focus on is absolutely stunning just like u said! Love it!!! My 3 hibiscus are called "fiesta". They're gonna hissie when I bring them in lol.
I live in the UK. We generally put ours out in May and bring them back in in October, but obviously we adjust depending on the weather forecast. This year they stayed out till almost November. They always take a while to get used to being put outside - its the wind they really don't like. We live on an exposed hill which can be windy - and the leaves can look a bit dry and frayed. But then they seem to grow tougher, smaller, more leathery leaves in response and then they enjoy being out and flourish in the warmer, sunnier summers we get these days. In winter we keep them in a south facing window where they grow their larger, thinner leaves again.
I have a braided hibiscus tree. I don't know if the care is different than other hibiscuses. Does this require any different care to keep it indoors this winter? Also, I think it is root bound. Should I wait until spring to repot?
I live in New York, ive turned one of my rooms into a plant room, i use a humidifier, a small heater and grow lights. What wattage would i need to supplement the 6hours of natural light? Im new to the grow-light life xD
I probably wont move mine until frost comes around. They can take a frost but they'll drop the leaves and have to recover it. Ideally I wont have them go through that.
Hi Jeff. Great video. I bought 4 small hibiscus this year. They did pretty good but got a bit scorched outside. When I moved them indoors a couple of weeks ago they dropped all there leaves. I think I see some new growth. I hope they bounce back. Thanks for the warning about the bugs though. I'm going to move them out of my room. 🙂
I live in Houston (zone 9)..I have one hibiscus that I love. Our freezes are sporadically spaced down here, and last year was crazy with low low temps and snow for a week. Amazingly things seemed to freeze, but many things came back. I guess I will leave mine out, until the first freeze. But should I go on and trim them back before. Right now, Oct 27, I have 6 blooms, and many buds. It is in the high 60s and 70s.
My Luna Red Hibiscus have been a great success since starting them from seed in Spring here in Pennsylvania. This video has great info! I am bringing them indoors soon. I am thinking a 150wat LED next to the sealed up window for my 3 plants. Any advice on distance over the top of the plants, or a better light option? Thank you!
Those are beautiful hibiscus! It is really hard to say how far to put an LED because no matter what the wattage, they have different amounts of spectrum blending, spread and par(intensity) which are variables determined by how the manufacturer places the leds, what type of lenses if any are used over them and what type of led is used. To be safe I'd start with 18 to 24 inches above the plant and lower it if the plant starts to stretch and get leggy. If the plants leaves curl or fold, change to a lighter color, then I'd raise it up higher.
That's awesome! My Seminole pink always does well. Even with the hard freeze it endured last fall it still came back and grew wonderfully.
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Dawn dish soap really didn't go well with my hibiscus shrubs. The leafs started turning yellow so I had to flush the soil out gradually. But they could've just been putting up a fit, like he said lol.
Wow, that is such a gorgeous hibiscus!! What a helpful video, thank you. So I inherited a hibiscus that my Grandma got in 1983, it goes in and out every year. It would bloom all the time both inside and out but it hasn't bloomed for me for the last 3 years. I'm doing exactly what my Grandma used to do. It puts on new growth but no blooms. I give it a good cutback every year when I bring it in and am lucky enough to have a good place for it, Any idea?
Hi Tracy! It helps when moving back out in the spring to scrape the top few inches of soil out of the pot and top dress it fresh soil. That can help them regain some vigour having fresh nutrients without having to repot them. Maybe some fresh soil in the spring might help with the blooming?
Hey Jeff, Ive read that rosa-sinensis doesn't tolerate high levels of phosphorus. Ive been fertilizing mine with seaweed extract, MG performance organics 11-3-8 spray fertilizer, and some palm gain which has a ratio of 8-2-12. (Not all at once of course). Mine is just one of the Big Box Stores (lowes) "cajun" form.
High levels that are in fertilizers meant for blooming can cause the roots to burn and inhibit the uptake of other nutrients, but those are very high levels normally. Love the cajun types!
Tropical Plant Party I live in zone 7 and I have a braided hibiscus bought at SAMs that has grown over the summer and stands about 5 feet constantly blooming even today. It has red flowers. I would like to try and save but don't want to dig it up, any suggestions on how I might salvage it over the winter outside.
When you say indoors you mean in your home right ,not a greenhouse,im planning on moving my hibiscus and mandevillas in my greenhouse. i bought alot of plants this summer and dont have room in my house for them, so i decided to buy a greenhouse, plan on heating it with 4-5 55 gallon drum barrels, and a heater of some sort.. the barrles for thermal mass.. and to cut down on electric bill, and advice?
I like that little yellow bloom, but you bubblegum one is beautiful, shame it was not in bloom and you could have shown that one, how long before you move everything in the garage? great video
I know! They are all covered in buds right now, but no blooms in time for the video sadly. Havent moved them yet. Probably will start with the true tropicals in a week or two. Just depends on the weather.
ha! my mom got one last summer and she was so excited....shes in a zone 5B...started it indoors...she moved it like 5 times outside....it slowly crisped up and died....she had no idea it was going to be so finicky...in fact, she thought it was a perennial here?! I was like "ma, that is tropical!" =/ anyhow, i am guess the constant movement killed it?
How long will flowers bloomed last, and since I keeps mind out side should I cut all the ways down and how often should I water during the winter months
Iam so sad, i have 6 hibiscus plants indoor and winter start now and all the leaves are yellow . In the summer it had give a lot flowers. Can you help me how to keep my hibiscus plant healthy and overwinter my plant... i have put the pots by the Window so it get daylight as iam from Holland and we have not so much sun shine here...
So, is it safe to have them indoors around your bird? We are getting a budgie next week. I have 4 potted hibiscus in pots outdoors Central Texas. They will live in the sunroom.
I have no idea about the safety with birds, as a rule I just keep my pets away from all of my plants in the house unless I'm certain they are non-toxic.
Meh, they throw a fit down here in winter as well, they'll drop like 2/3 of their leaves for what seems like no good reason. (the weeping pink and the older hybrids not so much but the newer ones, yeah, they yellow and go almost bare in like a week - usually in January - and stay like that until March or April)
In the UK and I would need to move in plants today as we have had wet,windy,cold and now expecting frost tonight! Would love these in my garden. My garage is not suitable as no insulation so can’t overwinter:(
Jeff, I would like your opinion about using grow lights, please. All of my plants are grown indoors 100% of the time. My plants have grown vigorously under the lights all Spring and Summer with the lights on for 12 hours a day. Is it okay to continue with that amount of light during the Winter months or should I reduce the amount of time the lights are on to simulate a change of season? Thanks for your time.
Hi Dori! If they are all tropical plants and not something deciduous or something requires a dormancy then I wouldn't change a thing if they are doing well.
Thanks for your quick reply, Jeff. Many of mine are tropical plants but what if there are succulents/cacti? (Sorry I didn't give you enough information the first time.)
🤣😂 I was worried some of them might be succulents and/or cactus. That's a much more complicated answer. It depends on each individual plant and where they are from. That is beyond my level, I'm sorry! Some south african succulents need a rest in winter, where others need a boost, same with some cacti from American and mexican deserts. Have you watched, Lynn from Desert Plants of Avalon? She is the cactus and succulent queen! She is also on Instagram, I'm sure she would be able to help you much better than I would with those specifics.
Thanks, Jeff. Yes, I do watch Lyn and will check with her. Thanks again for getting back to me, I really appreciate it. It's seems crazy, but I'm finding the succulents/cacti harder to care for than the tropicals. :-/
Mine usually bloom inside, but not as abundantly unless I'm able to give them a ton of light. Otherwise they through out flowers here and there every few weeks.
I live in Southern Ontario. I had 2 Hibiscus plants growing in my backyard last summer. In October I replanted them in pots to bring them indoors over the winter. I put them by my Bay window to get some light during the short winter months. Recently I tried this. I completely covered the plants with clear plastic bags. I put plates filled with water under them just to keep the humidity in. The base of the pots were not actually in the water but just above. I also put a heating pad under each plant. Nice and humid. Amazingly after about 2 weeks I see they have bloomed. I was just hoping to keep these plants alive till spring with this method and wasn't expecting them to bloom. What a surprise. No fertilizer. Just keep the plants moist.
Did you replant them in your garden or let them in pot? How did they behave this summer?
@@sandrj2341 I brought the plants outside in the spring after the last frost. They are blooming fantastically. Still lots of blooms left before the first frost then I'll do it all over again.
They remained in the pots, by the way.
@@poochie49 I'm curious how long you kept the clear plastic bags over the plants? I will need to bring my hibiscus in soon (October) and probably can't bring them outside until April/May. I live in CT(zone 6b). I'm trying to figure out the best way to keep my hibiscus plant alive over the winter.
@@kerridube5772 If I remember I put the clear plastic bags on sometime around January. The plastic bags do retain moisture as opposed to the dry heated inside temperature and low humidity. Just a note I tried to overwinter them the second year but they just didn't survive. Of course they were much larger than after the first year. Your experiment may end up with better results, so good luck.
First time viewer. I realize this video is 3 years old but oh my you are my favorite RUclipsr...
Plant nerds unite... 😂
Thank you. I haven't found as useful of a video about bringing these plants inside.
Always happy to have helped 😊
THANK YOU! not everyone talks about overwintering options and I’m freaking out. What do I do now? 😆 I don’t want to continue spending money every year buying plants when I can take care of them and keep them year after year.
Yaaay! Finally, a hibiscus video! Thank you! 😊🥰👍👏
Meant to do this one like a month ago. Oops! 😂
The "how" and the "why" make all the difference. Thank you so much for such a great video right at a time when I was wondering what to do with my hibiscus this winter and other videos I watched didn't seem to say much. Very helpful!
This was rite on time!! I have 2 hibiscus trees I'll be moving indoors this year so thanks for these tips! 😀
Thank you! Hopefully the video was helpful!
I finally found a full yellow, with a white center, super cool since I couldn’t find any yellow without the red in the middle but it’s also planted 2 orange ones I might divide them tho
Omg love hibiscus. Just started harvesting my flower petals for tea. I have a beautiful variegated high white leaf hibiscus and a lipstick. I also have a ballet slipper that is in the mallow family so I don't harvest those but it's blooms are gigantic so I love it. I'm zone 9.😘🤗🤗🤗😎
Haha! Sounds like a nice hibiscus collection!
Thanks! I was just wondering about harvesting petals for tea. I'm in zone 10-11. Winter weather is down to 40s at night but still in 70s in the day. Wondering if I can blanket them at night? Really don't want to move them in. Can I use plastic sheet with holes?
@@kathynoll4634 tea is from the tropical roselle hibiscus and it’s the fruit from the spent flowers the one in this video isn’t for tea but you can eat the flowers, it’s used in Hawaii for salads I guess 😂 but yea the roselle ones are the tea cultivar native to Jamaica I think?
Yay! This will be so helpful for a lot of hibiscus growers! Thanks Jeff! You rock dude!🌱🌿🤩💚🌺
Thank you! 🌴💚
Thank you so much, excellent information! I spent most of last year asking my 5 year old hibiscus "What exactly do you want from me? Why are you dying today?" The biggest fight was with spider mites as you mentioned. If she survives the transition inside this year (zone 7) she will get a shower every month.
Spray with garlic and chilly solution for mealy mites👍
awesome tutorial thank you, have a gorgeous yellow hibiscus inside my apartment doing great. hope it stays that way throughout the winter in 4 months
Great video, I live through all of my planty friends that can grow plants like this indoors, next year I'm hoping to have a green house and then I can have all sorts of fun. The weather here in Idaho has turned to wet, cold and crazy. It now drops below 40 degrees at night, I am so not ready for winter. Hibiscus are such a beautiful plant that I want to have some to grow in a greenhouse. Thanks for this video Jeff, fun to see what plant life is like in other states. I hope you have a great weekend and I will see you soon, bye for now.
Thank you Holly! A greenhouse will be so exciting! I hope you have a great weekend also!
Finally, an informative and educational video 👏🏽
Thank you!
Nature has made us (even plants lol) all imperfectly perfect in all our own individual unique ways.
Yet another awesome informative and educational video that is beautiful to look at at the same time, thank you so very much Jeff. 👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you, Julie!
Tropical Plant Party you’re welcome as always my friend 💞🌸💞🌸💞🌸
Covering the base of all my plants (potted and in ground) with chunky wood chips made an extreme difference this past summer.
Cedar is great for repelling bugs!
Hi Jeff! Another very informative and educational video! I've never grown a hibiscus, but they are beautiful! The flower on the "Chatty Kathy" is so pretty! When my sister and I were little (many moons ago) we both had Chatty Kathy dolls. I think I just really showed my age group here! LOL! I love you and your videos, even if I don't have a particular plant. In one of your comments below about your "Bubblegum" hibiscus, you said it was full of bugs ~ then I realized that you meant full of buds..... LOL! Thank you so much for sharing!
Haha! Oh thank you for pointing that out! I went ahead and fixed that typo. Autocorrect can be so devious sometimes! 🤣😂
You're so welcome! At first I thought oh no, then figured autocorrect showed up when it wasn't necessary, or wanted!
Very nice coverage of the variables. Thanks!
Yay! I’ve been looking for a good overwintering video for hibiscus for a while! 🌺 thank you!!
Awesome! Thank you! I hope it was helpful!
Tropical Plant Party in the spring can you do a video on bringing them out of dormancy?
I love them so much. In my zone 8b/9a tropical hibiscus are used a lot like hardy hibiscus, as a die back, although warmer winters they’ll stay semi evergreen and will continue to grow. Very vigorous in spring; they can go from the ground all the way to 6+ feet in 1 summer.
Oh that sounds so pretty! I need to move! Just had our first day in the 70s today and I hated it... going to be in trouble in a few weeks when it's 20°f outside! 😂
Tropical Plant Party oh wow! We still have highs close to 100
I live in zone 8b and the winter will literally take the plant to the grave, my blueberries and Hardy azaleas got frost burn and broke apart, it definitely depends if we have a harsh winter tho
I'm glad I subbed. I like u lol very informative. I like the long vids too. That bloom u chose to focus on is absolutely stunning just like u said! Love it!!! My 3 hibiscus are called "fiesta". They're gonna hissie when I bring them in lol.
💚💛Love that pretty yellow hibiscus plan, I will try to grow them next spring.
It is a very pretty one!
Thank you So Very much! Your video has been the BEST most informative!!❤
I live in the UK. We generally put ours out in May and bring them back in in October, but obviously we adjust depending on the weather forecast. This year they stayed out till almost November. They always take a while to get used to being put outside - its the wind they really don't like. We live on an exposed hill which can be windy - and the leaves can look a bit dry and frayed. But then they seem to grow tougher, smaller, more leathery leaves in response and then they enjoy being out and flourish in the warmer, sunnier summers we get these days. In winter we keep them in a south facing window where they grow their larger, thinner leaves again.
I have never grown a tropical hibiscus before, but I might try growing one in the future.
Well worth it, the flowers are so pretty and vigorous.
I am going to bring mine in, not expecting blooms but praying they sit in the partial sun corner and stay alive for the next 4-5 months.
I bet they'll be ok, might drop some leaves and through a fit but they'll bounce back. 🙂
My poor baby is bald 👩🦲
I live in zone 2b lol!!! Getting them inside for the winter today!!!
Nicole Gilbert zone 2 woah! Canada?
Yikes! 2b!? Omg is this Santa!? 🤣😂
@@TropicalPlantParty Santa is further north ah!ah!😎
I have a braided hibiscus tree. I don't know if the care is different than other hibiscuses. Does this require any different care to keep it indoors this winter? Also, I think it is root bound. Should I wait until spring to repot?
I live in New York, ive turned one of my rooms into a plant room, i use a humidifier, a small heater and grow lights. What wattage would i need to supplement the 6hours of natural light? Im new to the grow-light life xD
Very beautiful flowers 😊 nice video
Thank you!
Ohhh thank you 🙏🏻 for this vid. Mines still on my balcony at 10C
I probably wont move mine until frost comes around. They can take a frost but they'll drop the leaves and have to recover it. Ideally I wont have them go through that.
Thank you Jeff, very helpful!
Hi Donna! Thank you so much!
Nothing wrong with being weird. I have coworkers who think I'm strange for liking to grow carnivorous plants :)
Hi Jeff. Great video. I bought 4 small hibiscus this year. They did pretty good but got a bit scorched outside. When I moved them indoors a couple of weeks ago they dropped all there leaves. I think I see some new growth. I hope they bounce back. Thanks for the warning about the bugs though. I'm going to move them out of my room. 🙂
Yeah some leaf drop is normal, they'll probably flush back out with new foliage in no time. 😊
Awesome! Simple. Thank you
Mine dropped sooooo many leaves!!! Gonna grab a grow light
I appreciate this video thank you
I live in Houston (zone 9)..I have one hibiscus that I love. Our freezes are sporadically spaced down here, and last year was crazy with low low temps and snow for a week. Amazingly things seemed to freeze, but many things came back. I guess I will leave mine out, until the first freeze. But should I go on and trim them back before. Right now, Oct 27, I have 6 blooms, and many buds. It is in the high 60s and 70s.
Do not prune before Winter, wait till spring. Pruning always encourages new growth and you do not want that in wintertime.
My Luna Red Hibiscus have been a great success since starting them from seed in Spring here in Pennsylvania. This video has great info! I am bringing them indoors soon. I am thinking a 150wat LED next to the sealed up window for my 3 plants. Any advice on distance over the top of the plants, or a better light option? Thank you!
Those are beautiful hibiscus! It is really hard to say how far to put an LED because no matter what the wattage, they have different amounts of spectrum blending, spread and par(intensity) which are variables determined by how the manufacturer places the leds, what type of lenses if any are used over them and what type of led is used. To be safe I'd start with 18 to 24 inches above the plant and lower it if the plant starts to stretch and get leggy. If the plants leaves curl or fold, change to a lighter color, then I'd raise it up higher.
@@TropicalPlantParty awesome info! Thank you very much for the advice!
Mine winters over in the house beautifully.
That's awesome! My Seminole pink always does well. Even with the hard freeze it endured last fall it still came back and grew wonderfully.
Dawn dish soap really didn't go well with my hibiscus shrubs. The leafs started turning yellow so I had to flush the soil out gradually. But they could've just been putting up a fit, like he said lol.
Wow, that is such a gorgeous hibiscus!! What a helpful video, thank you. So I inherited a hibiscus that my Grandma got in 1983, it goes in and out every year. It would bloom all the time both inside and out but it hasn't bloomed for me for the last 3 years. I'm doing exactly what my Grandma used to do. It puts on new growth but no blooms. I give it a good cutback every year when I bring it in and am lucky enough to have a good place for it, Any idea?
Hi Tracy! It helps when moving back out in the spring to scrape the top few inches of soil out of the pot and top dress it fresh soil. That can help them regain some vigour having fresh nutrients without having to repot them. Maybe some fresh soil in the spring might help with the blooming?
Hey Jeff, Ive read that rosa-sinensis doesn't tolerate high levels of phosphorus. Ive been fertilizing mine with seaweed extract, MG performance organics 11-3-8 spray fertilizer, and some palm gain which has a ratio of 8-2-12. (Not all at once of course). Mine is just one of the Big Box Stores (lowes) "cajun" form.
High levels that are in fertilizers meant for blooming can cause the roots to burn and inhibit the uptake of other nutrients, but those are very high levels normally. Love the cajun types!
Tropical Plant Party I live in zone 7 and I have a braided hibiscus bought at SAMs that has grown over the summer and stands about 5 feet constantly blooming even today. It has red flowers. I would like to try and save but don't want to dig it up, any suggestions on how I might salvage it over the winter outside.
Great info. Thank you 👍🏼
When you say indoors you mean in your home right ,not a greenhouse,im planning on moving my hibiscus and mandevillas in my greenhouse. i bought alot of plants this summer and dont have room in my house for them, so i decided to buy a greenhouse, plan on heating it with 4-5 55 gallon drum barrels, and a heater of some sort.. the barrles for thermal mass.. and to cut down on electric bill, and advice?
I like that little yellow bloom, but you bubblegum one is beautiful, shame it was not in bloom and you could have shown that one, how long before you move everything in the garage? great video
I know! They are all covered in buds right now, but no blooms in time for the video sadly. Havent moved them yet. Probably will start with the true tropicals in a week or two. Just depends on the weather.
Great info, thanks 🙏
😊🌴💚🌴💚
i love hisbiscus
Me too!
ha! my mom got one last summer and she was so excited....shes in a zone 5B...started it indoors...she moved it like 5 times outside....it slowly crisped up and died....she had no idea it was going to be so finicky...in fact, she thought it was a perennial here?! I was like "ma, that is tropical!" =/ anyhow, i am guess the constant movement killed it?
Maybe, sometimes individual plants can just be more delicate also. They do prefer to be very gradually introduced to the outdoor sun.
How long will flowers bloomed last, and since I keeps mind out side should I cut all the ways down and how often should I water during the winter months
I have mine inside under a 1000 watt led light they are thriving but flower buds drop on some before they open or just after polinating
How long in between watering should I wait? My leaves are turning yellow! I am in zone 5 .
This is October so can I cut the hibiscus off in this month or should I just leave it alone
Iam so sad, i have 6 hibiscus plants indoor and winter start now and all the leaves are yellow . In the summer it had give a lot flowers. Can you help me how to keep my hibiscus plant healthy and overwinter my plant... i have put the pots by the Window so it get daylight as iam from Holland and we have not so much sun shine here...
I'm repotting my tropical hibiscus what soil should i use ?
So, is it safe to have them indoors around your bird? We are getting a budgie next week. I have 4 potted hibiscus in pots outdoors Central Texas. They will live in the sunroom.
I have no idea about the safety with birds, as a rule I just keep my pets away from all of my plants in the house unless I'm certain they are non-toxic.
Tropical Plant Party yes, can’t be too careful!
What does mean when your leaves turn yellow or brown on the tips?
Meh, they throw a fit down here in winter as well, they'll drop like 2/3 of their leaves for what seems like no good reason. (the weeping pink and the older hybrids not so much but the newer ones, yeah, they yellow and go almost bare in like a week - usually in January - and stay like that until March or April)
Seems to be the case with a lot of new plants just like appliances. They just don't make em like they used to! Lol!
In the UK and I would need to move in plants today as we have had wet,windy,cold and now expecting frost tonight! Would love these in my garden. My garage is not suitable as no insulation so can’t overwinter:(
Yeah I had to insulate and dry wall... it was a big ordeal. I know, I'm not normal! 🤣😂
New dream house requirement, windows good enough for a hibiscus to grow inside
😂 same! All of my windows are horribly shaded!
Decid-jewish! I love you!
Lol. Thank you!
Jeff, I would like your opinion about using grow lights, please. All of my plants are grown indoors 100% of the time. My plants have grown vigorously under the lights all Spring and Summer with the lights on for 12 hours a day. Is it okay to continue with that amount of light during the Winter months or should I reduce the amount of time the lights are on to simulate a change of season? Thanks for your time.
Hi Dori! If they are all tropical plants and not something deciduous or something requires a dormancy then I wouldn't change a thing if they are doing well.
Thanks for your quick reply, Jeff. Many of mine are tropical plants but what if there are succulents/cacti? (Sorry I didn't give you enough information the first time.)
🤣😂 I was worried some of them might be succulents and/or cactus. That's a much more complicated answer. It depends on each individual plant and where they are from. That is beyond my level, I'm sorry! Some south african succulents need a rest in winter, where others need a boost, same with some cacti from American and mexican deserts. Have you watched, Lynn from Desert Plants of Avalon? She is the cactus and succulent queen! She is also on Instagram, I'm sure she would be able to help you much better than I would with those specifics.
Thanks, Jeff. Yes, I do watch Lyn and will check with her. Thanks again for getting back to me, I really appreciate it. It's seems crazy, but I'm finding the succulents/cacti harder to care for than the tropicals. :-/
Northwest Québec province, it's going to freeze tonight.😨
Aww dang! I knew it was chillier up there but had no clue it was zone 2b!
Does it bloom indoors?
Mine usually bloom inside, but not as abundantly unless I'm able to give them a ton of light. Otherwise they through out flowers here and there every few weeks.
I was waiting for you to show how to cut back but the whole video didn’t do anything regrading that beside just talking.
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Oh, haha! Exactly!
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