Plant count. How many plants do you have indoors right now?

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:00 am

Just counted my plants, waiting to get outside in some warmer weather (not all of them... some are meant to stay in the house here).
It turns out I only have 155 plants in the house. Summertime that should be down to a dozen kept indoors.
About four dozen in the hoop house, a dozen in the garage hardening off and three dozen potted out there in the yard (48+12+36=96)
Everything said, there are only around 250 plants here, not counting plugs or plants in the ground. About the same as last year at this time.
My favorite new seedling: Yucca schottii. Begins forming a trunk immediately and grows aggressively!
How about at your place? And do you have a favorite new plant or seedling?
Adam

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:30 am

Sure, Adam, make me go to the cold building to count 'em

In the meantime, interested in whether you have any Y.schotti seedling for sale.

Off to go count the beggars...
Barb

PS--I'm sure with plant numbers you've got me beat.

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:52 am

In a few months, yes, Yucca schottii seedlings will be available in limited quantities as well as green aloifolia, elata, thopmsoniana, glauca and some brevifolia. The last four are two years old. Also, at the current rate, I will have many many Washintonia filifera seedlings this summer to trade.
Adam

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 10:01 am

It depends if you count seedlings or not. If you do, then I'm not counting!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:40 pm

Cameron, that's funny

Adam, please put my name on one of your Y. schotti seedlings.

OK here's my inventory (good to have anyway).
won't bore you with species.

Cold, barely heated building: 108
House: 27
Outside (planted): 8
Total 143

Basement (trying/germinating/popped): ~60

Barb

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:57 pm

...but it has been so amazingly warm all winter that almost every potted plant is outside!

Living room:
--potted, trunked Yucca rostrata I've just been too lazy to haul out
--Bizzy so big I don't want to haul it back in when it does get cold, but will probably go out tomorrow as the long term forecast is to stay freaky warm
--small pots with Hamelia patens, an orchid (can't remember which), a colossal Ficus benjamina that will need help to go outside for the summer when I know for sure it will stay warm
Upstairs:
--three bottle palms
--smallish Chameadorea geonoformis palm
--foxtail palm
--triangle palm
--a cactus in my son's room

That's it! Everything else, even seedlings, is outside. Crazy. After the past 52 weeks of record heat, maybe even Sen. Inhofe will admit to ...

Godfryd · Post by **Godfryd** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:02 pm

NIce idea to count plants in my house area. I will have to do it in my spare time. But the result I will have to turn into the secret for my wife I think

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:56 pm

Oh no....... You had to make me go and take a rough count ...

Right now I have 14 trachy seedlings, 8 washy seedlings, 10 pots of pawpaw (ungerminated), 7 pots of bamboo seedlings, another 20 pots of seedlings (Another 300 to go), roughly 120 houseplants, and about, 10 things that are inside for the winter (bananas, colocasia, a datura, passiflora, etc).

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:00 pm

Godfryd, I hear you. I won't tell my wife how many I have either.
Ok Barb, you're first on the list.
Good lists folks!
Adam

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:57 pm

I got ZERO plants in the house...............YUP.............none, zip, nadda. Some in the garage.

Adam............yes........Yucca schottii is a super fast grower. Yucca schottii is the 3rd row up from the bottom........these seedlings were germed in May and this photo was taken at the end of summer the same season. Get Yuccas in the ground and they grow even faster! PS......now I'm thinking those big ones were similar to schottii but may have been Y. baccata v thornberi. I'll have to check my notes........from year 2000.

<img src=http://www.bennyskaktus.dk/images/other ... Tim_02.JPG>

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:20 pm

Love that pic, Tim!
Yes I also heard that yucca grow fast in the ground and slower each year if they're in a pot.

Re Y. schotti, is it true that it forms a trunk earlier than any other yucca?

Those yuccas grew to that size in ONE summer????

So far, it's Adam with 250

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 8:48 pm

Hey Barb,

yes all those seedlings were likely 5 months old................get Yuccas in the ground and they take off. Yucca schottii does grow fast but trunking action takes years. Here's mine that I germed in 2000 or 2001:

2005 (NOT THE ONE IN THE POT.......THAT'S A NOLINA NELSONII)
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2006 (on left)
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2007
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2008
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2009 DEATH
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another Y. schottii in the garden also died that winter:
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FAST SOUTHWEST TRUNKER IS YUCCA ELATA..........it's a beast......seed grown same time as Yucca schottii.
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seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Fri Feb 24, 2012 9:14 pm

Everyone, I was hoping to tell my wife that many other people have 250 plants in and around their house. Plants that aren't necessarily for our garden. But maybe I am mistaken.. and I may have a few too many plants. I do sell some on eBay in season.. and will trade with those interested!

Tim, those are some great schottii pics. I swear mine are growing straight up at only the sixth and seventh leaf!
Barb, I am not sure if it is the earliest trunker, but of all my seedlings... 23 Yucca species, I have never seen another grow like it. Pics soon.

Adam

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:48 am

Wow, Tim, fabulous pics, except watching the Y.schotti die.
So much for trunking quickly, huh?
I thought they meant in 2 years...

And the nolina is stunning.

But I'd better change my Y.schotti order to a Y.elata.
Proof is in the pictures.
Thanks Tim.

Yes, Adam, time for some pics please.
And since you sell/trade, 250 isn't too many.

Barb

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 8:56 am

I have countless number of plants outside and about 250 plants inside including my Mom's 150 plus senpolias.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 10:15 am

Can I measure my larger plants with the seedlings and count them as individual plants

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 1:42 pm

Hi Igor,

your mom has 150 senpolias? WOW, nice collection............that's African violets for us in the US. I use to grow them many years ago. I enjoyed them very much.

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 2:22 pm

Jim, yes. Plants, not necessarily just pots.
Adam

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Sat Feb 25, 2012 5:09 pm

seedscanada wrote:Jim, yes. Plants, not necessarily just pots.
Adam

oh no..... add another 50 to my count then.......

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:32 pm

Left to right. Ensete ventricosum, Brahea armata, Musa 'misi luki', Musa 'dwarf cavendish' waiting for a ten degree (c) day to go outside :

Adam

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:35 pm

Nice Brahea, Adam.

What's the big palm on the left of Ensete?

Barb

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:19 pm

Barb,
That is our spindle palm...

Adam

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:03 am

Adam, can I be nitpicky, and suggest turning the ensete and Brahea so that they grow straight? It makes a big difference when put outside IMO.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:24 am

Yeah, I was going to suggest even bunching them all up together in front of the windows.
Darker than the hubs of hell

Nice spindle, Adam!

Barb

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Tue Feb 28, 2012 10:57 am

Just to be mean, I'll point out the Bizzie is outside now.

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:16 am

Tried to make a time lapse GIF here of Loquat, Eriobotrya japonica. 38 days from germination to now.

http://www.myspacegens.com/animated_gif ... 990738.gif

Hope that works.
Adam

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:24 am

Cool, Adam!

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:24 am

Here it is

Okay that should work.

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:27 am

Thanks Barb.
These grow so fast, it just has to be chronicled.

Adam

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:28 am

Your link worked for me the first time.

What period was covered? a month?

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 11:17 am

Barb, first picture February first. Last picture today, so 38days by my count.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:26 pm

If only palms did that in 38 days.

PalmsNorth.com

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