So I tried my hand at several things this year. All were started under lights in my basement.
White Butterfly Ginger - potted up 12/11/14
Kahili Ginger - potted up 12/13/14
Store bought ginger - failed and restarted in June in my pretend greenhouse
Turmeric - potted in mid December
The Turmeric recently started turning brown so I dug up and washed off and will store for awhile. Likely repot in Dec or Jan and start them again.
Of the four, the White Butterfly is the only one that bloomed and that happened in my Living room starting last week. That and the Kahili were brought in from my screen porch on Columbus Day.
Those two and the store ginger still look pretty good. The White is still sending up new stems and has 8 now.
My question now is what should I do? Should I dig them up, clean them off and replant in a month or so? Or later and give them a rest? Or should I just move them all to my basement grow area where they will have 12 hours of light and Temp (mid to upper 60s) and humidity which I can control.
I want to care for them as best as possible. Even without blooming, all are very lovely. The two fancy gingers have some leaf browning on the ends cause it took me forever to determine they liked it best on my screen porch where they received mostly indirect light. I had had them outdoors and they were getting fried, even with just some morning sun.
I have searched the Internet with little useful info for my circumstances.
TIA
