Crotonologist
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Many many thanks to Toby for sending me all these croton sticks a few weeks ago, not to mention a nice plumeria stem and a little orchid that I almost missed in the newspaper packing 
He said he was just paying it forward for all the nice folks that gave him crotons over the years, so I plan to do the same some day with offspring from these sticks when they blossom into big beautiful crotons in the next few years...
Inside all those sticks are:
General Macarthur
Philip Geduldig !
Diane
Eleanor Roosevelt
Purity
Jungle Queen !
Baron Lecompte !
Rheedii !
Thomas Edison !
Madame Butterfly !
Madame Butterfly Alt. #2 ? a different form??
Clipper
Golden Glow !
P. 82 Connie Cutler?
Miami Beauty
Mortii
Johannis !
Major Dade
Colonel Gilbert Cutler
Claude Lorraine !
Island Breeze
I've already lost a few to rot - when I unpacked them in the evening I put them all in a big tub of water to soak, potted them up the next day and place them under plastic on my porch. When I moved them into the greenhouse the following week there was a fair amount of botryis and /or other rot starting, some varieties much worse than others, so I bought some ferti-lome brand systemic fungicide (propiconazole) and sprayed them down pretty heavy and have not seen any new botrytis since, though I did throw away a few totally dead sticks the other day, hence the one empty pot
Next time I plan to soak the sticks on arrival in a fungicide bath before potting them up. Any suggestions out there for which fungicide would be best to try?
He said he was just paying it forward for all the nice folks that gave him crotons over the years, so I plan to do the same some day with offspring from these sticks when they blossom into big beautiful crotons in the next few years...
Inside all those sticks are:
General Macarthur
Philip Geduldig !
Diane
Eleanor Roosevelt
Purity
Jungle Queen !
Baron Lecompte !
Rheedii !
Thomas Edison !
Madame Butterfly !
Madame Butterfly Alt. #2 ? a different form??
Clipper
Golden Glow !
P. 82 Connie Cutler?
Miami Beauty
Mortii
Johannis !
Major Dade
Colonel Gilbert Cutler
Claude Lorraine !
Island Breeze
I've already lost a few to rot - when I unpacked them in the evening I put them all in a big tub of water to soak, potted them up the next day and place them under plastic on my porch. When I moved them into the greenhouse the following week there was a fair amount of botryis and /or other rot starting, some varieties much worse than others, so I bought some ferti-lome brand systemic fungicide (propiconazole) and sprayed them down pretty heavy and have not seen any new botrytis since, though I did throw away a few totally dead sticks the other day, hence the one empty pot
Next time I plan to soak the sticks on arrival in a fungicide bath before potting them up. Any suggestions out there for which fungicide would be best to try?