Puya

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    This is why I like to plant borderline hardy plants where they will catch the first of the morning sun (if there is any).
     
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      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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      Two of the seeds you sent me @longk have germinated.:blue thumb:
       
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        Excellent!
        I'm just plucking the courage up to repot the Puya berteroana :yikes:
         
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            Funnily enough I've just received seeds for that!
             
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              Today I separated and potted up individually the Puya berteroniana seedlings. Here are two of them............
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              This seedling has already divided..................
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                I'm getting really impatient. My P.mirabilis has been threatening to bloom for weeks now but the first bit of the flower are finally beginning to emerge from the calyx..............
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                  Yay - it's in bloom!
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                    A spikey problem! That vile weed Oxalis corniculata has appeared in the pot of Puya coerulea var. violacea..................
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                    I'm not sure how my fingers are going to fare in those spikes on the Puya leaves (:yikes:) but one way or the other the Oxalis has to be got out of there!
                     
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                      How about a small paint brush, glyphosate gel and a steady hand.
                      Otherwise it looks like depot remove the oxalis then repot.
                       
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                        I get very similar problems with weeds in pots of spiky plants, I think the only way to do it is a repot.
                         
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                          Tweezers? Puyas are lethal!
                           
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                            I tried that once and I was shocked to have everything within 4 inches drop dead too.

                            And it was a teensy paint brush!
                             
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                              Have this in virtually every pot ... if it is not Oxalis, it is Jacaranda seedlings, dozens of them, one reason for hainge one cut down! :hate-shocked: :help:
                               
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