Viewing post #992838 by DavidLMO

BobW said: <snip good tuff>

First, congratulations on getting your H. coronarium to bloom indoors. You must be pretty attentive to your plants to do that. I find coronarium to be the easiest to bloom and one of the first to bloom each season, but blooming them in the house is always a challenge.

As far as your specific questions, do NOT unpot the rhizomes and dry out your hedychiums. .... Just don't put them in a warm and really poorly lighted area because the heat will push them to try to grow and they'll exhaust themselves without adequate light to make more food. If you have bloomed coronarium indoors, you probably have a handle on the right amount of light.

I haven't been on this site much lately and wouldn't have seen your post, but another member (Deebie) told me you had a question about gingers. BTW - your Kahili (H. gardnerianum) is probably my favorite of all the ones I have.

We are in nearly identical environments. I am in NW Missouri.

Regarding the indoor bloom, it started budding some time ago - I had it on my screen porch where it got filtered light for much of the day. I brought the gingers in on Columbus day.

Trying to figure out what outdoor light they liked best drove me nuts. At first I had them in mostly full sun and they started toasting. Then I moved them to what turned out to be too much shade.

I will be storing them in the basement where I have plenty of light - metal halide and full spectrum fluorescent. That is where I started them last December.

I will definitely NOT remove them nor dry them out!! Thank you and Back @BobW. And thanks to @Deebie.

My final (at this point ) question is what kind of light do you give them in the summer? Where are they growing physically?

Thanks and best regards.