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formontcalamus · 12-13-2007, 12:57 AM

Hundreds of trucks leave south Florida every day hauling tropicals north. Florida growers always plant 3 to 5 seedlings (liners) of "Birds" to a 3 gallon pot. To make more money brokers and further north nurseries break up the big pots and replant one plant per pot to sell to retailers. "Birds" do not bloom untill about three years with multiple pups. So I think you got a repoted division of a mature clump. Unusual . . hell of a bargain. Sit it out in full sun in spring and it should pup. Pups from a mature plant will bloom. Logos

12-13-2007, 12:57 AM	#7 (permalink)
formontcalamus Wholistic Naturalist Location: South Central Puerto Rico Zone: 11 Name: Logos (French/Greek) Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 58 BananaBucks : 69,508 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 4 Times Was Thanked 26 Times in 13 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 0 Times	Re: Bought a Strelitzia Reginae Bird of Paradise today for a dollar. Hundreds of trucks leave south Florida every day hauling tropicals north. Florida growers always plant 3 to 5 seedlings (liners) of "Birds" to a 3 gallon pot. To make more money brokers and further north nurseries break up the big pots and replant one plant per pot to sell to retailers. "Birds" do not bloom untill about three years with multiple pups. So I think you got a repoted division of a mature clump. Unusual . . hell of a bargain. Sit it out in full sun in spring and it should pup. Pups from a mature plant will bloom. Logos __________________ Love the Earth, Logos / Wholistic Naturalist / Married / Father of ten Cats / Sexual preference: Anything that moves / French-Greek ancestry / Special interests: Codiaeum (Crotons), Evolutionary behavior / Look to the examples of Nature to understand Humanity.