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Old 05-11-2012, 06:34 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Hi Everyone

I will post here a pic of my Dwarf red dacca is the swelling at the base the start of the flower forming inside the posetum if so aprox how long in time from this stage until fruiting?
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Old 05-11-2012, 06:41 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I have never notice swelling to indicate a flower is forming.
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All my relatively mature plants look like that at the bottom. Here is a Namwah with a can of dog food for size comparison.

I have noticed swelling towards the top as the bud grows larger inside the p-stem though.

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Cool It looks like it is trying to squash the sucker coming out.
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Another pic from a different angle.
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The sucker is actually a Stuttgart Canna left over from the patch I just removed. Gonna have to get that out of there somehow!
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