Posted by xerophyte_nyc I know that warmth, water and fertilizer are prerequisites for leaf growth. My question is - how important is light, until the leaves begin to sprout? Typically, my plants are pretty dry and dormant indoors through the winter. As it gets warm enough (40's night, 60's day), they go outside in my garden in the sun (around mid-April). New leaf growth does not begin until it really warms up (late May-June) and I water and fertilize frequently, but this takes a few months. Does it make sense to begin the watering and fertilizing regime while the plants are still indoors in the warmth, to give them a physiologic head-start? Or am I potentially risking the new flushes if they begin indoors, but are then taken outside where there is plenty of sun but it may not be ideally warm enough? Thanks in advance.
on 5/24/2007, 1:20 pm
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Let me preface by saying I have over 12 different species of cycad, growing in pots (I live in NY)...the largest is a 30" trunk C rumphii, smallest is a 2" caudex E laurentianus, and everything in between.
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