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Old 11-27-2007, 11:18 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Default Re: Heliconia Caribea

I hope you have a large pot--was just in Maui this last week and saw Caribaeas 15-20' tall! Yikes! These are not small plants in the least...hopefully they'll grow well and flower in a large pot, but you may be looking at a 15gal minimum pot if you ever want to see flowers. The specimens I saw were in pretty much full-on sun, probably for half the day or a little more. There are some caribaea hybrids I think that are not only smaller but also cool-hardier and would therefore be able to live outdoors longer before you have to drag them in, a good choice since the longer they're indoors the more you risk dealing with decline from dryness, mealybug, whitefly, etc. Good luck and keep us all posted!
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