Pachypodium saundersii and flowers

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Pachypodium saundersii and flowers

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I grow mainly pachycaul and caudiciform plants from seeds myself. I have this 13 months old Pachypodium saundersii. Does this species require a long dry and cool rest to bloom?

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Nice plants Martin.

I keep my P. saundersii in the house in a south facing windowsill. I about water once a week in the growing season and maybe once every other week in winter. I feed regularly with whatever house plant fertiliser I happen to have to hand at the time. Minimum temperature will be around 15C indoors, humidity is low due to heating. The plant had at least 5 separate periods of blooming last year and is just about to have the first for this year. So to answer your question, in my case at least, a long dry cool spell does not seem to be necessary.
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Gary, thanks for the answer. I appreciate it.

As the summer draws to a close, I will put my pachy under LED light, cut down on the water and see what happens.

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Oh those are fantastic!
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MartinDK wrote:As the summer draws to a close
Already?
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Aiko wrote:
MartinDK wrote:As the summer draws to a close
Already?
Sorry, I meant "when". :wink:
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After spending its entire life under LEDs in the grow tent, I put my Pachypodium saundersii (the same one above) on a windowsill in late May. It did not like the sudden change in the growing conditions and started shedding leaves and finally decided to go dormant.

I almost forgot all about it. Maybe watering it once every other week. Now 4 months later - and almost leafless - the pachy has flower buds! So I moved it back into the tent.

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Hi Martin
Look lovely as usual, I find pachypodium not very floriferous ( for me).
I have been wondering if it's not enough light, need a repot or they do need a winter rest .
I'm hoping the new garden is sunnier than the last so maybe more flowers, I'd love to get a seed pod on a pachypodium.
have you ever tried to transfer pollen manually I got the pollen out but couldn't transfer it :wink: :lol: so gave up.
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Post by purzo »

Looks good Martin. Mine flowers multiple times in a year and will again soon. It lives on a South facing windowsill but there is shade from a neighbours large tree and also poor ambient light in the room. I find that the flowers have a tendency to abort fairly easily if I don't water it regularly.
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Post by Rich45s »

Bumping this....apologies for such an old post but it’s ...

Mainly for beautiful pics of lovely plants and to ask...

When to repot a Pachypodium Saundersaii. I got one a year ago that’s now having big ‘taproot’ like roots poking out the bottom of an 11cm ‘regular’ upright terracotta pot. It seems to be doing very well. Caudex isn’t filling pot but lots of top growth and four ‘stalks’ growing large out of the caudex. Bought a larger diameter but still ‘half’ height terracotta pot ostensibly for this plant but can obviously be used elsewhere if not suitable for this one yet

Don’t want to cause it any troubles reporting too early but also aware that I’ve been forcing this by watering and feeding heavily and it seems to eat that treatment up. Gets markedly bigger or taller ‘stalks’ within days of watering so if I could repot and keep this ‘overgrowth’ growing I will. It’s my first pachy (I’ve since bought a much smaller other variety I forget name of now) and can see myself finding these as my next plants to have a binge on when I get more space.

PS - love the pots in the picture. Where do you purchase stamped terracotta? I’d love terracotta stamped with a bonsai style stamp

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