Author Topic: want to trade lotus for blooming size tropical/ tropicals...a few for postage (Read 3981 times)

tinkster · « **on:** April 20, 2013, 06:48:46 PM »

I am looking to trade lotus for blooming size tropical. I have baby doll, momo botton ?? spelling

, russian red, birthday peach and little golden phoenix. Possibly also have a few to give for postage plus paypal fees. Let me know what ones ya have for trade if interested.

TInk

Kat · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2013, 06:06:58 AM »

Tink sends really nice lotus tubers

LeeAnne151 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 24, 2013, 09:28:22 AM »

Tink, I killed Baby Doll last year. I'd love to buy one from you again. I seem to be lotus and tropical waterlily death. Even though I have a heated pond in my heated greenhouse. I have yet to keep a single one alive over winter.

tinkster · « **Reply #3 on:** April 24, 2013, 06:18:10 PM »

Darn! Wish you could get one to overwinter.. she is such a beautiful lotus. and for me covered with blooms. My lotus that have big ponds to room free in do not bloom as much as she does in a whiskey barrel. Have you tried overwintering her outside? Mine freeze, zone 6 and they are fine. I have sold some through over venues and I believe I dont have a baby doll left but will check tomorrow and see if theres another in the barrell I could persaude to come out. I have another very small bowl lotus, alot smaller than baby doll that is suppose to be beautiul, I have just never gotten her to bloom yet but have moved her this year to more ideal conditions.. Got her from maria and she is chinese bowl. If ya wanna try one, I just want shipping and can check tomorrow on baby doll.

Tink

LeeAnne151 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 24, 2013, 09:08:15 PM »

Sure, I'll try whichever small one you have. I put them in big pots but maybe I should put the pots outside for winter and just bring in early. I know the Chinese Garden and Hughes Water Gardens both keep their lotus in heated ponds/greenhouses though. It isn't hot enough or sunny enough here to get to them to bloom otherwise.

tinkster · « **Reply #5 on:** April 25, 2013, 08:27:49 PM »

I am gonna get one of the chinese bowl lotus. I dont think I can get another baby doll out without risking leaving one unbroke for me. I will aim for monday mail since your so far away from me.

I bet it is hard to garden in your area. I never knew what your weather was like till my daughter got into the "twilight" movies hehehe. will let ya know monday when I get her mailed

tink

LeeAnne151 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 26, 2013, 01:08:07 PM »

I haven't seen those movies but if the weather was mostly grey, gloomy, cloudy and raining then that is the truth....

do you want a check or PayPal for the postage?

Bob_A · « **Reply #7 on:** April 26, 2013, 03:09:54 PM »

Tinkster, if you have 3 extra lotus (mixed, your choice) , I'd be interested.

Thanks

tinkster · « **Reply #8 on:** April 26, 2013, 05:49:43 PM »

Leann.. yep it was very grey.. twilight was about vampires and they lived in forks, washington becasue they could not be in the sunshine hehee... Paypal is fine.

tinkster · « **Reply #9 on:** April 26, 2013, 05:51:29 PM »

Bob.... I am probably gonna have 3 left. I charge shipping and whatever paypal fees will be. Will let ya know something first of the week.

Tink

tinkster · « **Reply #10 on:** April 26, 2013, 05:52:27 PM »

And I nheed a addy leeann.. I can never find from where I shippe3d before.

Bob_A · « **Reply #11 on:** April 26, 2013, 06:14:03 PM »

Thanks Tink.

Sean · « **Reply #12 on:** April 26, 2013, 09:15:06 PM »

Forks is more like Vancouver where I am since this is where it was filmed but yes, winters in Portland are very much like here in Vancouver and northern Washington but summers in Portland are HOT!!! When I met LeeAnne in person 12 or 13 years ago during the IWGS symposium in Portland it was Hot as Hades...

LeeAnne, I think we both need to try lotus without any protection to be successful. My pond is too hot for them and your greenhouse is too hot for them.

SueSTx · « **Reply #13 on:** April 27, 2013, 05:28:39 AM »

I'm trying to grow a lotus one more time this summer. I really have come to the conclusion that our 10% humidity and 20 mph winds on 100* days is just too much. I have never even had an aerial pad. They will survive, but not thrive.

This time, I put my 35 gal container on a stand inside the tank hoping that the moving water will be a touch cooler than the hot air around a pot. I was also hoping there would be more humidity next to the filter/outlet. There is a bit of late evening shade, but still 10 to 12 hours of sunlight. So far the tuber has survived two surprising hard freezing spells. I have the pot covered with clear plastic. The tuber is rooted down. I'll see what happens. If I can get aerial pads this summer, maybe a bloom next summer. I will not be dividing it next spring.

If I can make this work, I love some more next summer.

LeeAnne151 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 27, 2013, 07:19:49 AM »

We have five or six hot days a year up to 100*. It is cloudy until after July 4th and starts again in September. There are usually some really hot days in May, Aug and September. Probably less than twenty over 80* the entire year.

tinkster · « **Reply #15 on:** April 27, 2013, 05:58:21 PM »

Sean I think you might be right. THe first year I started lotus I was so scared they would not winter over that I put them in cold dirt floor basement and not one of those survived. I think they rot. I also would cover my pots with bags of leaves for extra protection.. those lotus made it but when I would devided in the spring lots of the tubers would be molded and squish in my hand. I never have that now that I just leave them alone in the cold

Sue... we have had two brutal summers since I been doing lotus. all brutal to me but two that was probably comparable to yours with 100 degrees for weeks on edn. I bury my lotus tubs deep in the ground, below ground level. they really stay cool. even my fishies dont get to hot in the few inches of water the pots get.

Joy

tinkster · « **Reply #16 on:** April 27, 2013, 06:00:35 PM »

and sean... if my daughter knew you lived where they filmed her "all time favorite, earthy moving love story" I would be asking if we could come visit

LeeAnne151 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 27, 2013, 06:09:02 PM »

Tink, I emailed you my address through the forum.

LeeAnne151 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 01, 2013, 12:52:13 PM »

Received safely, thank you Tink!

Bob_A · « **Reply #19 on:** May 01, 2013, 02:11:25 PM »

Got mine today, Tink.
They all look great.

Thanks again.

tinkster · « **Reply #20 on:** May 01, 2013, 04:05:06 PM »

great thanks for letting me know.. Leanne... I am counting on you to get a bloom out of this lotus so I can finally see it. I would have tossed any other flower/plant by now but I want to see what she looks like so bad and she is so very tiny and cute

and forgot to tell you.. all these year I have drooled over your blue eyes grass. I think I finally found one that might be the same as yours.. its sisyrinchium lucerine blue star. hoping it is since I remeber thinking yours blooms most or all the summer.

tink

LeeAnne151 · « **Reply #21 on:** May 02, 2013, 07:25:30 PM »

I can send you one ya know. They are really small now but later this summer I can divide again.

waterlily808 · « **Reply #22 on:** May 03, 2013, 09:35:14 AM »

Hi tink

I've been sending you messages about some lotus for postage. Still waitin for your reply. Let me know. Thanks

tinkster · « **Reply #23 on:** May 03, 2013, 07:19:08 PM »

Hey there.. IM sorry so slow.. have had sooo much going on. I think I will have 3 for you. I just havent had time to sort through them all. My problem is they are so out of dormacy with long leaves and tips going every which way that I have to find one that is fairly straight so I can ship it without the box having to be huge and so that it wiont be as likely to break the tips. I will aim to ship Monday, so Sunday I will start trying to box up 3 that will fit and let ya know then so you can paypal.

tink

tinkster · « **Reply #24 on:** May 03, 2013, 07:40:15 PM »

Leeanne... I am hoping mine is like yours.. I will know I guess if it doesnt bloom all summer.. If its doesnt then maybe I can get one of yours

HOpefully this one will.. tag says summer blooming

it is adorable though!

tink

watergardenwill · « **Reply #25 on:** May 04, 2013, 03:05:45 PM »

Thanks they looked great

Pam · « **Reply #26 on:** May 05, 2013, 08:04:04 PM »

Tink,
The Baby Doll that I got from you last year bloomed for me in August. Please excuse my messy containers

She made it overwinter although it was hard to just leave her out in the cold like that

tinkster · « **Reply #27 on:** May 06, 2013, 08:21:23 PM »

she is so pretty huh! kind of surprised she made it above ground. You must not have very cold winters?

tink

Pam · « **Reply #28 on:** May 07, 2013, 03:55:19 AM »

Not too cold this past winter, we may have gotten to 24 a couple of nights. The pot is sunken about 8 inches into the soil. The water in the pot did freeze once for a couple of days. She was slower to wake than the Little Golden Phoenix but has a dozen aerial pads now. I will probably need to divide both of them soon but I *think* that is done before they begin growing in the spring, right?

Did those cannas bloom for you?

tinkster · « **Reply #29 on:** May 07, 2013, 05:30:25 AM »

I just got through deviding all of mine but was late this year doing it. I think if your wanting to devide to share tubers you would lose alot more after there out of dormacy. I have never devided as late as when they have arial pads but all the my lotus this year where poking through the dirt and I could see a few floater pads. They really are a tuff animal to kill out. I have one pond I am changing over to a lily pond this year. I have pulled them out, chopped up the entire pond with a shovel. replanted with a lilly and I still have lotus coming up

Yes I love the cannas! Iam getting ready to plant them up this year and I am going to put them in a old metal tub I have

Tink