To be honest with you, I can grow just about anything, but this plant, forget it! I can't even get one to last me more than a year. I can grow a gardenia, one of the toughest to get through a winter indoors, but this one, again, forget it. I have killed several in the past.

I thik this is one of those plants that either needs to grow in it's tropical wild climate to be happy, or a nice warm, all day diffused sunlight tropical greenhouse.

If there is anyone here that has ever gotten these to flower, or grow healthy, in home, please share and tell your secret! especially the blooming part..

I keep passing these plants up in the stores, keep wishing I could grow one sucessfully, and just can't.

I second Kandhi's look for help.

Mike

Mike, you got it right. Most of the plants we bought from the store are using the soil designed for the growers' condition, not ours. The nursery's goal is to grow the plants as fast and as beautiful as possible, also using the least labor. That's why most of the soil retain too much water for average home. But most of us don't have a hot greenhouse. So we just blame ourselves. But it's not our fault.