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Author Garden: Mother-of-Thousands ready to break out! Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       Oh, our BIG mother-of-thousands is ready to do it! In all the years I've had these babies I've never witnessed one making flowers. We have three different kinds budding and one is getting ready to fully open. Sad, here, because after they bloom, it's all over. I had read that if you keep them slightly stressed, they'll just keep making plantlets & will go on and on. Guess I wasn't mean enuf to 'em. The main one is over 4 ft tall and it'll open first. Two other types just produced buds and will open in a coupla weeks. (((SIGH))) We'll post pics this weekend.. * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 67.125.208.28 catlover The Cheetah! Member # 654 posted                       Oh Jillie please take a pix of the whole plant as well as the blooming! Okie Dokie! How exciting!!!!! Can't wait to see the pix's! * * * * Plants: 7129 | From: California | Registered: Mar 2003  |  Seeded: 68.66.244.5 gardengal Super Gardener Member # 1403 posted                       Jillie and JC...any pics yet??? I'm very curious, not sure I know what a mother-of-thousands looks like. * * * * Women and cats will do as they please. Men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Plants: 766 | From: The real OC in sunny So. Cal. | Registered: Aug 2003  |  Seeded: 216.114.206.2 plants 'n pots Garden Pro! Member # 1672 posted                       ME TOO, ME TOO!!! Can't wait to see those pictures! * * * * Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Plants: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 67.84.51.43 Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       Tomorrow morning, we're shooting old Mother. She's almost in full bloom and she's amazing. We have a smaller version that's almost there, too. We'll post 'em tomorrow nite. Thanks for asking, you guys! Gardengal, take a peek at what old Mother looked like a few months ago... * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 63.205.44.244 Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       At last! here's our beloved Mother-of-thousands in her almost-glory. I don't know how long she'll bloom, but after she's done, she'll REALLY be done (for). Check her out.... Mother of Thousands Album * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 63.205.40.153 catlover The Cheetah! Member # 654 posted                       Jillie it didn't work....try again!!!! I wanna see, I wanna see! * * * * Plants: 7129 | From: California | Registered: Mar 2003  |  Seeded: 68.66.244.5 Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       Cat, try clicking again....It works for me * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 63.205.40.153 plants 'n pots Garden Pro! Member # 1672 posted                       Doesn't work for me either... * * * * Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Plants: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 67.84.51.43 Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       Whoops, Hollywood just told me I did it wrong! Sorry! Lemme try this again.... Be right back.. * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 63.205.40.153 Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       Now? Mother * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 63.205.40.153 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       I see pictures, going for a peak!! Weezie * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.103 catlover The Cheetah! Member # 654 posted                       Yep worked! It has said something about we weren't the owner!!! Wow! That is terrific...so glad you could share your "bloomin mother" (Ha Ha) with everybody. So she will die now????? Just a question but why did you move her...thought she was by the wall? Will the blooms last longer???? I am so inspired by all your pix! * * * * Plants: 7129 | From: California | Registered: Mar 2003  |  Seeded: 68.66.244.5 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       How beautiful, the colors on the stalks of flowers are so pretty, ever multi~tonal! And the flowers are soooooooooo neat!! Do you have them staked?????? Or just leaning on the chair???? And in the one picture with the yard stick and it's leaning on the chair, what is the plant in the far background that's a lime green color, on the wall, with it hanging over the wall.???????????? VERY INTERRESTING!!! Weezie * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.103 Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       Weez, Mother is normally up on a high garden stand, leaning against our retaining wall for support. We took her down & propped her up against the chair for her "photo shoot". The plant in the background is a donkey-tail..Hollywood has had it for about 10 years....I don't think there's any soil left in the pot...I'm afraid to do a re-potting on it...It's very touchy & drops its little parts if disturbed. I seems to be happy, root-bound and all. * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 63.205.40.153 Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       Yes Cat, she'll die now, from all that I've read. But, I harvested a million of her plantlets and we have many, many of her offspring in different stages of baby-hood. That's one of the things I love about these plants! * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 63.205.40.153 plants 'n pots Garden Pro! Member # 1672 posted                       What great documentation of a very interesting plant!!! Is this the plant that makes babies everywhere it touches down? I think I read that people are afraid to plant it because it tends to take over everything. The flowers are very nice. They look like the type hummingbirds would love - do you get many there? * * * * Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Plants: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 67.84.51.43 plants 'n pots Garden Pro! Member # 1672 posted                       Oops... seems that we posted at the same time - you answered my question about the babies! * * * * Lynne's knitting journal "I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???" Plants: 17066 | From: Rockland County, NY | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 67.84.51.43 Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       Plants, we get a zillion hummers, & they're loving Mother, right now. In India, These plants ARE considered weeds because they reproduce at a rapid rate...We find her babies growing in other plantings. Always a surprise! * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 63.205.40.153 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       I wonder if there are a few of that type, because we used to have one a long time ago, and the I don't remember it that tall, or that type of flower, but all the babies are on the side of the leaves and drop down on the dirt and form new ones all over the dirt... It was very pretty.. But yessssssssssss so many babies!!! Weezie * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.103 Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       Weeze, I've been discovering so many varieties of this plant. We have about four really different ones that make those little plantlets on the leaves... * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 63.205.40.153 Jillie Garden Pro! Member # 1680 posted                       Oh, and Weeze, I think the plant that you mentioned being in the background of the birdie shots? I think it might be foxglove... * * * * Plants: 1985 | From: Ugh...Van Nuys, CA | Registered: Nov 2003  |  Seeded: 205.188.208.108 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       I'll go back and take a peak, but I"m not sure about that one... My grannie grew them and I do and I love them, didn't think so... I wish there was a closer shot of them??? You've got me peeked now... Summer's coming right??? Weezie * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.103 weezie13 Compost Queen! Member # 772 posted                       NOPE!! You gotta go put that picture in the MYSTERY SECTION!! I'd say a penstamin or something,.... We love a good mystery!!!! Weezie WEll, I'll say nope to the ones I have on my coast. I think Flower had some different shaped ones, maybe she'll take a peak at it!! * * * * Weezie Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2 http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/ Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.103 jc2weho Heaven's Gardener Member # 1554 posted                       Hi Everyone! I have done some investigation on the Mother of Thousands. They are Crassulaceae - Bryophyllum. What we have been calling the Mother of Thousands is really a Chandelier Plant or Pregnant Plant. The real Mother of Thousands is also called a Mexican Hat Plant. I went out during my lunch break and snapped a few pictures of our other Bryophyllum, here's the link: Look in More Mother of Thousands Here are two links to site about Bryophyllum: Bryophyllum Plant Identification Guide Bryophyllum Common Names Have Fun! jc2weho * * * * Plants: 409 | From: Los Angeles - Hollywood Hills | Registered: Oct 2003  |  Seeded: 63.205.47.206 gardengal Super Gardener Member # 1403 posted                       So now I know...very cool plant indeed. Thanks for sharing the pics! * * * * Women and cats will do as they please. Men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Plants: 766 | From: The real OC in sunny So. Cal. | Registered: Aug 2003  |  Seeded: 216.114.206.2

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