TrailGaiter

Thanks, I'll check out your photos! My love started with palm trees.... through those (which I haven't begun with yet...not ready to do the lights/heating and covering thing!), I learned of basjoos, and thought, wow, I can have a tropical look without the heating and boxing up! Through learning more about basjoos, I saw the maurelii, and OMG. That was it for me! I knew THAT's what I had to have! Burgundy is my color....my horse barn's burgundy, my mailbox, so many things in my house...it's just my color.

My basjoos are in a holding pattern (in the ground)...so I was gonna wait till next year for the ensete...to see how I did with the basjoos, but when I saw the summer sale ad posted here......I decided I just had to.

I'm thinking my best bet, this year anyway, is to keep it in a pot, let it stay outside until fall, then raise it in the house through winter. My only wonder is...dormant or growing? I'm thinking it won't get too big this year.... if I find a window where the cats can't chew on it, I could give it a fair amount of sun this winter...or buy a light for it. I'm happy to do that.

I've been reading up on them awhile. Now I'm going back, printing articles, refreshing my memory. I've been reading about people using...uh...milorganite? Not to be used around anything for consumtion....I understand.... but any thoughts?

And when I pot it, would I use straight potting soil, or a mix of potting soil/top soil...what? I typically use miracle grow potting soil. If using that, how often to fertilize? I'm wondering, too, if I should fertilize my basjoos...when I planted them outside, May 30th, I mixed in a fair amount of composted horse manure within the soil.

Thanks!
Angie