The label says Datura, and it bloomed inside my apartment a few times over the summer (white upright bells that withther the following day, the blossom is scented like ivory soap).
Just to confound things I pinched some Baptista (I think) seeds from a local nursery, which have just started to sprout (one for sure, maybe two).
Nothing would make me prouder than to father a Baptista plant.
So I'm willing to chop the Datura, if that would help.
Do you think I can keep both going over winter in the same pot?
Am I a fool to think a seedling of Baptista will make it to spring time with out grow lights?
One more additional complication about my lighting situation. It's a south facing window, but it has plastic opaque sheet on it (bought from Ikea) so I can enjoy the sunlight, but maintain some privacy. So far in my extermely limited experience of growing apartment plants (a few months with the Datura) nothing has died.
Suggestions, comments, rude noises? All are accepted here
2006-10-14 19:20:44 · 5 answers · asked by dumbdumb 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
The datura you describe sounds like a Brugmansia[Angle Trumpet], the datura I grow has dark medium size leaves, the bloom is burgandy on the outside of the bloom and white inside, and smells like peanut butter, the scent you talk about is that of a brugmansia. The two plants use to be in the same genus, but the powers that be decided to give the datura it's own idenity. Here in Georgia we keep the brugmansias in the ground over the winter, and my landlord cut ours back and stores the branches in a five gallon bucket it alittle water and they root over the winter and he sets them out in the spring, at the nursery I grow for we just cut the branches and stick the in a one gallon pot and grow the in the greenhouse over the winter, spring ans summer, they root within a week. As for the datura's we collect the seed and grow the plants in a mist house. The main reason I think you have a Brugmansia, instead of a Dutura is, the flower from a brugmansia fades in a day, a dutura bloom stays and goes to seed, the seed looks like a small golfball, when you open it, you have about fifty seeds inside. Either way they are tropical plants and need humidity and water, cut back on the water in the winter set up the humidity in the winter if you run heat. I hope i have'nt confused you!! As for you Baptisia, we grow it at another facility, so I have'nt had the growing experience of the plant, the common name is false indigo,[the one we grow] Baptisia Australis is blue, blooms may-june , 3-4' high, when planting space 18-24" apart. Good luck and keep your plants warm, humid, and in a suuny location. Always be on the look out for insects and fungus. Happy Planting!
2006-10-15 00:12:35 · answer #1 · answered by watergoddess53 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i know nothing about baptista but the datura should grow outside, ive never heard of it as a pot plant. you can look both these plants up with a web search and find out how best to care for them, a grow light isnt that expensive is it, to stick over by your plants ? they need more light than they can get in there in the winter just with the window. you should pin up your ikea sheet while you are out of the house so the plants get a little more light. good luck
2006-10-14 19:26:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know that you'd need to ditch the Datura, although I've usually seen it grown as an annual, so it may be headed for plant heaven already. I'd highly recommend getting an additional source of light for the winter. I raise African violets indoors, and use ordinary shop lights that I get at the hardware store. I use one "regular" bulb and one "grow" bulb, or you can try full-spectrum bulbs. Beyond that, whatever you're doing, you must be doing it right, or the seeds wouldn't have sprouted, so just keep doing it!
2006-10-14 19:32:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
So we meet again, dumbdumb... ;)
I winter my variegated Brugmansia (maybe Datura, but I think Brugmansia) indoors. My cold USDA hardiness zone 5 garden won't let me leave it outdoors. Inside it languishes and drops most of it's leaves. As soon as it gets nice out, it's outside for it!
I don't think it'll make a very good long-term houseplant.
Sharing a pot... I think that's alright for now. Move the Baptista into a garden in the spring.
Good luck-
2006-10-17 08:15:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both in the same pot. Hmmm, interesting. Get more pots and grow lots of both. Did you know Datura is hallucenogenic?
2006-10-15 00:44:31 · answer #5 · answered by reynwater 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋