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Koki, AE/CGC needs high light to get those crazy good flushes. I can't get pics loaded for some reason. I have some pics of the plant in the 'wild' condition, no hint of how spectacular it becomes. Bullwinkle, I have a different take on some of your thoughts. Most of the really nice crotons are...

Ron, AE, CGC, whatever you want to call it, is a big leaved plant. It shouldn't surprise you that bob alonzo likes the ID, I would bet he was the one who figured it out. Jeff, look at anna and kingdavid's pictures again. The big clue is, we called it almost edison for a reason. Forget the flush...

Back to almost edison. That plant was easily the flashiest plant that we couldn't ID. Several people suspected it was a cutler plant, he, not davis, was the king of killer big leaves varieties. Jeff, your caution with trying to ID off a photo is well founded. It isn't always possible. Bob alonzo...

At the 99 ybor city event, we figured out this much, I had plants and the society guys had names. Perfect. Time to start figuring it out. In the next four or five years the bulk of the plants now in the hobby were collected out of yards on both coasts. Most of you would be suprised how many...

As phil descibes, once you get a bunch of stuff growing in uniform conditions, things start to happen. Similar plants become different and very different plants become the same. We were unburdened by names. elaine spear introduced me to bender, and he had the best collection on the planet. The...

Back to the begining. Prior to getting the book (sept 99) we were collecting anything we could get our hands on, with no idea it even had a name. At the ybor city fest, we met lee and ron, and bob alonzo and all the original society. Book in hand, we realized the fifty year old plants we were...

Perfect questions. The answers are a little lengthy, so I'm going to break this into multiple posts. But I promise within a day or two I will hit it all. First things first. Ron, I have no idea where in that book that might be. Lee called me in response to this thread and told me they had...

Don't be confused. Same plant in different conditions. There was no CGC stock that got joined with the almost edison stuff. CGC was lost. Johnny and I had found several of these really nice plants around town and once we figured out that it was not TE, we showed it around to bender and alonzo...

Anna, your plant has a real name. Lee informed me today that they figured that one out. Captain gilbert cutler. So almost edison is officially retired to the dustbin of croton history. Pretty cool

The charles rutherford i had came from bender, the white was a sport on one of the plants in the nursery. Everything sports yellow/white sooner or later. I gave a white CR back to bender, so he also had it.

Btw, sorry about the dumb name. When my friends and I started collecting these things back in the 90's, we didn't have any points of reference. Jesse durko knew a few old names, franklin, eleanor, freckles, gloriosa, wizard, mona lisa, tortoiseshell, but other than those few, we had to make...

Jeff is right. That isn't royal flush. Harold lee, john bender, johnny shelton and I always called that plant 'almost edison' because we thought we had found a thomas edison a few times. When we found the big hollywood TE, we realized it was something different, so that one became 'almost...

Here's a little update. A couple of weeks ago my friend george and I were doing some work on the crotons, and george found a patch of scale on some fishbones. I sprinkled a little amdro around the plants and forgot about it until today. The fire ants are gone, and this blue ladybug is doing the...

Speaking of zanzibar, it can be amazing when it's happy. We did some work for a guy who calls himself TIKI, and he snuck these in later. Wow

That won't work. Look at koki's picture above. Spraying kills the good guys, too. The idea Is to kill only the non native species (the fire ants) that are causing the problem. Aphids and scale are candy to a predator. Just remove the fire ants. The cure for sooty mold is exactly the same. Remove...

Here is a total rethink on croton scale, or any other scale or aphid for that matter. Aphids and scale are soft bodied, defenseless critters. First line of defense is a robust healthy plant. Use a top grade balanced fertilizer, don't kid yourself that dog doo or banana peels are going to do the...

I can add a bit to this. The davis collection was just that, a collection. Most of the plants turned out to be named varieties that we are now refamiliarized with. The entire group was in deplorable shape. Almost nothing was identifiable. Everthing had been cut too many times. It was nothing...

I know the exact story on this and can clear up a few things. The only real exotica around was a nice 3'x3' plant I stumbled across in a driveway in davie one day. I knew what it was, and didn't really have time to deal with it, so I called a buddy and sent him in. He found that the original...