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  • orientallily 799 plants Canada6a

    I want to grow fuchsias on our veranda next year… just two or three… but I’m going to need help. I’ve tried to grow fuchsias before and I’ve managaed to kill every, single one. Well, no more!

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  • Here are some basics for fuchsias in containers: clay or pulp or wood container not plastic, no timed release fertilizer in the potting soil, large pot to keep the roots cool, don’t over water.
    In the ground they’re very unfussy. Best wishes and careful, they’re addicting.

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  • Amarylis

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    139 plants United Kingdom8a

    careful, they’re addicting
    They are indeed! I’ve bought them & grown them over many, many years. I’ve grown them from my own cuttings or I’ve bought them. Just a few years ago I bought 25 plants to fill up my hanging baskets on our balcony.

    The photo is of some cutting I took of the newly bought Fuchsias in 2009.

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    I remember many yrs ago I had more than 200 and kept taking cuttings and overwintering.

    But not anymore .

    As in the long cold winters did loose a lot.

    So this is a challenge if they come through the winter .

    And can get nice healthy fuchsia plugs from Dobbies early in the season.

    Unless realay needing a named would send to a specilaist nursery.

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  • 0 plants United Kingdom

    And so addicitive live orchids.

    I am like someone who buys shoes ,I would rather buy and fuchsia or an orchid.

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  • SneIrish

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    1145 plants United States6b

    Since Fuchsias can never be hardy enough for my area, I had been buying one each year for a hanging pot, as if it were an annual. I had tried several times to overwinter one and/or grow from cuttings, but never had any success.I am happy to report that so far, this year, my hanging Fuchsia is doing just brilliantly in an east window. We haven’t had our usual cold temps even yet, so maybe this has helped. I will be delighted if I can keep it alive until spring to put it back outdoors. I have it in a plastic pot, but obviously I am hesitant to repot it now. If it survives I definitely will before it goes back outside.

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  • Amarylis

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    139 plants United Kingdom8a

    I lost almost all my Fuchsias last winter & I didn’t get any more during the summer. I fully expected the winter this year to be like the previous two so I decided I wasn’t going to buy any more plants that are not hardy enough to survive sub-zero temps during the hard winters we expected to see in the future.

    However two Fuchsias of the same variety did survive & bloomed during the summer! :-)) Towards the end of the summer I discovered that another Fuchsia had survived & was beginning to flower! It was a different variety from the other two. These three I’ve kept on my balcony &, due to the mild winter we are having up to now, they are surviving without any problems. :-))

    The photo shows one of the 3 that flowered during the summer of 2011. A self-sown Sunflower grew, flowered & set seed until a day of very strong winds put an end to its life!

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  • Amarylis

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    139 plants United Kingdom8a

    The other Fuchsia that survived is called ‘Snowcap’. I had 5 plants of this variety but this is the only one of the 5 to survive.

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