Re: [IBC] Tempting the Devil

Iris,
It sounds to me that you have the thing mastered. Do the same thing again!
Jerry Meislik
Whitefish Montana USA
Zone 4-5
http://www.bonsaihunk.8m.com/
> For about five or ten years, I have been doing what we tell people not to do:
> growing a juniper indoors. The catch is, not on a windowsill & not all year.
> It
> is a J. squamata 'Prostrata,' usually sold as J. procumbens 'Nana.' Of course
> it was outdoors all summer. My practice, as with some subtropicals, was to
> leave it outdoors until late October or November (first night under 25), and
> then give it a further dormant period in the unheated sunporch. Following
> this,
> it was placed under very bright fluorescent lights in the plant room (December
> or January), with the humidity most of the time around 70%. Then outdoors
> again
> after last frost (usually early May). It thrived mightily, in fact the
> branches
> got too thick. Last spring I got mad at it, cut off the top, and planted it in
> a flower bed for a couple of years. Now I have a cascade 'Shimpaku.' Can I
> give
> it the same treatment? Are there any necessary variations? It is in the
> sunporch at the moment.
> Thanks
> Iris,

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