Hey Mike, so very cool.
Most folks around here use them as annuals in flower beds.

Now that you've shown they can bloom in only 5 years...going to pick some up.
Looks like they'll open to white flowers.

Any tips for overwintering? bright light, cold room?

Thanks!
Barb

Hey Mike, so very cool.
Most folks around here use them as annuals in flower beds.

Now that you've shown they can bloom in only 5 years...going to pick some up.
Looks like they'll open to white flowers.

Any tips for overwintering? bright light, cold room?

Thanks!
Barb

Right. They are cool Barb. People always throw them out in fall or let them die off. I trash pick them and repot them. I overwinter them on the sun porch. It gets very cool at night into the 30s on coldest nights and up to about 50 to 55 on sunny winter afternoons. They are pretty hardy thnk I think they are really pretty to look at and their trunks are interesting: they look like pineapples. Enjoy spring Barb!
Mike

Nice mike!

This is my indoor cordys 3rd summer. Probably wont flower this year, but its good to know that they do in pots.

Their hardy to zone 7, but like it cooler. Anyone with hot temps liek arizona, south east states might have trouble. Mine is in a window that faces west, but doest get lots of sun, mabey 3 hours of direct sun in the winter. The window is open a crack all winter, so it says coolish in there, aroudn 60F, mabey cooler by the window. They dont do well if they dry out in winter in my experience. That and lower light/humidity will cause the growth to corkscrew.

The best thing is their cheap, and the end of the season theres tons on for half off, if your lucky you might grab a red variation, or purple. Not as hardy, but nice lookin.

I remember your description of the sun room, so that'll be great in my cold room at a south window with a bit of watering through winter.

I trash pick them

My kinda man! 😆 😆

Jesse's right in that they can fry in hot desert winds.
An east location is best here in summer.

Thanks for the tip!
Barb

nice pics. 8)

Mike nice pics on your Cordy`s flowering. Being that they are "dioecious" and you have quite a few in flower get ready for lots of seeds! Wikipedia says a million seeds from an old adult. WOW! I`ve got two potted 15 gal. Cordy`s I hope they will flower next year. It should be very interesting to see how they progress for you . Keep us updated. Maybe send us some seeds?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyline_australis

John

Mike nice pics on your Cordy`s flowering. Being that they are "dioecious" and you have quite a few in flower get ready for lots of seeds! Wikipedia says a million seeds from an old adult. WOW! I`ve got two potted 15 gal. Cordy`s I hope they will flower next year. It should be very interesting to see how they progress for you . Keep us updated. Maybe send us some seeds?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordyline_australis

John

I could indeed get you some seeds. I'm psyched to see them flower!

Mike,
thanks. W uses them in hanging basics on the front (east-facing) porch and they do great. But we always chuck 'em in November when they freeze. This year I'll bring them in.
Great photos, BTW! 😀
--Erik

That's fun to see a plant a lot of people use as a throw away blooming.

I think a lot of people don't realize what great plants these are and how beautiful/big they can get!

Thanks for reminding me guys.... I just ran my 2 cordys outside. Ive been forgetting 😀

In another pot, they have sent out two really big pups that look like separate plants altogether: they're amazing!!!

very cool Mike!!! I've never seen them bloom before.

They're very sloooooooooooooooow. I'm waiting!!!

wow, they're finlly opening now and they smell delightful! A mix of jasmine, orange blossoms and ylang ylang. 😀