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truffleupagus


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Salvia Growing Tips?
#5888199 - 07/22/06 05:25 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I just received a salvia clone about a week and a half ago. The paper that I got with it says to not transplant it until at least 2-3 weeks after receiving it. I still have a couple questions about growing it though.
Right now I have the plant in front of a window that's fairly sunny but has tissue paper over it. I'm wondering if at any point I could take it out of the window and put my 400 Watt Halide lamp on it. Would that or wouldn't that be a good idea?
I'm also wondering how tall a salvia plant can get. Right now it's about a foot tall.
Lastly, I'm curious about how one would get a salvia plant to flower. And can the flowers be used for anything or is it just the leaves you would harvest?
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Asante
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This is the biggest plant a brief websearch turned up:

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and put my 400 Watt Halide lamp on it. Would that or wouldn't that be a good idea?
Hmm, I'm wondering about the same thing. Instinctively I'd say 200 watt/sq meter would be better than the 400 watt/sq meter often used for weed.
Take cuttings, cuttings, cuttings, cuttings!
Salvia grows well but you can expect to lose a plant here and there, so make sure you have some to spare.
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jben
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Re: Salvia Growing Tips? [Re: Asante]
#5888627 - 07/22/06 07:23 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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salvias like rainwater as opposed to well or city water. in one growing season a salvia can grow into a 3 to 5 gallon pot!
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deadheadjpc2000
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Re: Salvia Growing Tips? [Re: jben]
#5888675 - 07/22/06 07:40 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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My mother salvia reached 6 feet in hieght, with 3, foot-long flowers! After cutting her back for winter, she is on her 2nd year, and already is 3 feet tall and growing rapidly. Yield: 1/4 lb of leaves. Peace
Edited by deadheadjpc2000 (07/24/06 02:41 PM)
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truffleupagus


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Thanks for the advice. I'll avoid the 400 Watt lamp I guess and eventually take some cuttings. The same place that I bought the plant from sells cloning root gel so I guess I'll buy some of that.
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Asante
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Hey hey, don't let this discourage you! If someone can confirm this 200W/m2, then you can simply use your 400W lamp to illuminate TWICE the floorspace, meaning twice teh harvest (say a circle 6ft in diameter)
Clone it like a madman, and give clones to EVERYONE, including grandma who merely wants to grow it as a pretty houseplant. Should a plague of Biblical proportions strike your grow, grandma will merrily give you a cutting so you can start anew. Redundency people: make sure you'll never lose this plant.
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Edited by Asante (07/23/06 07:48 AM)
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Re: Salvia Growing Tips? [Re: Asante]
#5890590 - 07/23/06 01:39 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Kind of off-topic, Wiccan, but wouldn't it be easy (if and when salvia is demonized and criminalized) for a legal vendor in a different country to sell a US/European person a cutting?
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Asante
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Re: Salvia Growing Tips? [Re: microsporum]
#5890888 - 07/23/06 02:50 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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If something is criminalized in your country, you can't receive it, and if it is criminalized in their country you can't send it.
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jben
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Re: Salvia Growing Tips? [Re: Asante]
#5891075 - 07/23/06 03:29 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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wiccan I am going to do exactly that, clone plants like a motherfucker and give them away to everyone
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Asante
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Re: Salvia Growing Tips? [Re: jben]
#5891087 - 07/23/06 03:32 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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excellent! Salvia needs as many people with The Right Stuff as can be found! Salvia will likely become business, but right now it is still a Cause, like weed was in the 1960s-1970s
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