Viewing post #712366 by JB

I have done that and some of them were much to expensive. I used to play around with orchids until I realized I was just throwing money down the drain. I never had an orchid live for me for any length of time and never was I ever able to propagate them. I just moved on to something easier. My first real success was with the Aimee Gardenia Trees. I must have sold a hundred of those babies. I was doing really well until my mother plant decided to freeze and after that I was unable to get any of the cuttings to root. I had three mother plants at one time and one by one they all died of some stupid reason. I finally gave up with them too. It was really difficult keeping the GH clean when I raised them also. They would get mealy bug and other insects over night I swear. Since I am a certified NJ nursery, I get state inspections during the year. The inspector never tells you when he is coming and if you have a bug on a plant, he will find it I swear. I was always getting negative inspections when I had the gardenias and then you have to be reinspected and keep cleaning your plants. Since they are gone the only one that gives me any problems are the mandevillea....that the mealy bugs love.