I live in the same area as you and was just gifted one of these! I wasn't sure if it would survive up here, but you're giving me hope I can keep this thing alive! Thank you for sharing!
They have survived year after year when they are protected in my shed through the winter. Every one that stayed outside in the Seattle-area winter has died off each year, so I do think it is key to have it in a place like a garage, shed, or other spot that gets cool, but not freezes. They are a beautiful flower and plant!
I am excited about the new growing season. I had some great results with propagation last summer, but one thing I would do different is do this earlier, like early summer. My starts would have done a bit better with an additional month of growth before winter.
I am growing orange and red abutilon from cuttings for the first time, and they definitely grew very fast and the orange one is now flowering. I am in Northern California so I am hoping to get it in the ground once the danger of frost is gone. Thanks for all the great tips, especially about the location...I am trying to figure out where to plant it. Wonderful video.
Thanks for sharing and I also have a bunch of starts to get in the ground from cuttings. I started these late in the summer and they took off, but winter is a long wait! These flowers/bushes would make great gifts and seem fairly easy to do!
Grown them this year in pots … we have pink flowering ones and are still flowering at the start of November . We live in New Brighton just over the river from Liverpool UK… thanks for your video. 😊
I'm glad you enjoyed it and these are fascinating plants to play around with. I look forward to getting some new varieties in the Spring and adding those to my collection.
16:30 i would disagree. Most varieties of Abutilon actually don't need sun and love dappled shade/filtered sun through the canopy of larger trees. They produce flowers purely based on nutrients, potash feed is what makes them bloom. That's why they are the plants that actually can bloom in a house in winter if it stays close to the sunny window and fed with potash. Red Tiger is a very tricky variety that is not as prolific and does require more sun. It's really fun to cross different colors of abutilon and grow from seed as they do have different growing habits, shape and size of the flowers:) If you allow more wind - they will grow nice thick tree-like trunk and you can shape it the way you want.
Thank you so much for share this information and also for pushing back a bit on ideas for growing these. I am sure that their is so much science and all that I have to learn, so this is helpful. I've also experienced that the hot sun is not good for them, but so far, the four or five varieties I have seem to thrive with filtered sun and even morning sun. I fertilize regularly, but I will research and perhaps try some of the ideas you share more. What region or weather do you typically experience?
@@backyardadventureswithandyI'm in the UK Midlands and I grow it in the ground and in the pot too. But I do grow them from seeds and cross to grow my own varieties. You can also prune the roots when it outgrows the pot. I'd really recommend feeding with tomato food type of fertiliser and try shadier spots with good air flow. If you bring your pot in house before the frost comes it will continue blooming as long as you feed (at least the red variety, probs not the red tiger). It blooms in house over the winter even in +10C so it's a really tough plant.
Thanks for sharing and I'll continue to experiment and try things out! Here where I am at, I do have to protect them more in the winter as anything that gets left outside had not survived. The abutilon seems to be a big hit for gifts, as so many people are in awe of the fun hanging flowers, especially the Red Tiger. I'll be sure to mention you in future videos, especially when I try your methods. @@vorong2ru
I'm in the Seattle area too. My daughter gave me this plane for Mother's Day. I brought it in late October and have it on my dining room table with east sun shining in some days. The flowers are starting to fall off now. Should I move it to a cooler room. My thermostat is set at 68. When do I trim it? IT has grown a lit since I got it and flowered all summer on my deck on West side. I live it and want to make sure I can save it.
I am moving mine into my shed (that has windows) now, so that it avoids the hard freezes of winter. I did have one last year that I kept in my living space (room temp), but I find that in a garage, shed, etc. works great. I will save most of my pruning for late winter, but I have a couple that have grown large, so I will trim these back so that they fit in the shed space that I have for them. Over the winter, they will lose a few leaves periodically, but overall, they just go dormant. Every 6 to 8 weeks, I might also put some water in them to ensure they don't dry out.
Hello! Very very informative video, thank you for doing it, i just bought a 3 ft tall red tiger, it has one flower and i can see many green tiny ones coming out, the leaves are not ss green as yours (im in texas) i am about to re-pot it to a bigger pot with garden miracle grow soil, should i wait to fertilize? Or can i do it right away? Thank you for any info, greetings from texas!
Thanks for watching and I hope your bush thrives. What I say, I say as a "backyard gardener," not an expert. I would report and fertilize at the same time. Also, I have found that my leaves are really rich green when shaded, but sometimes there are less flowers with more shade. For example, the varieties I had in more sun has way more flowers than the ones in the shade.
I grew my orange ones from seeds. I can't say they are really thriving though. One grew 1.5 m long, dropped the lower leaves and then suddenly started flowering like crazy. His brother is growing slowly, also lost some lower leaves. Never has had any flowers. Funny to see two plants from the same butch of seeds, in identical conditions and developing in a totally different way. Today i chpped the big one in pieces and i will try to propagate it. Last year i tried the same, but none of the cuttings rooted. Maybe your tips will help. :) Thank you for sharing your experience. Greetings from the other side of the globe.
Hello and I am looking for some different colors. I want to try orange or yellow this year. I am going to propagate again in another month, as people love getting these as gifts! They are a unique plant and flower in the area I am from.
Awesome video. I've had mine for a year and it has lots of buds and blooms, but my leaves are turning white. What would you suggest I do for it? I have tried fertilizing it and It gets dappled sun. I'm at a loss.
I had this recently on one of my starts, and I shifted the plant to a little less sun, and the new growth with ii is normal. However, when this was happening, my evening temps were still cool with some hit days mixed in. I am not convinced your issue is sun or temperature-swing related, but I think you could play with that. If you find out why, please message back on here. Perhaps changing the soil and repotting?
We have a red tiger variety and it has started to get sticky and oozey and it has little bumps all over the trunks and branches. Any idea what we might be dealing with? We think there might be a bug issue but not sure if that’s true.
I am on Vancouver Island I have not been able to get the Red Tiger variety here any where, no one seems to stock that one. Nurseries don't seem to know about them, after much hunting around I have found a few varieties but sadly not the Red Tiger variety.
I have a large seedling. You don't prune the baby plants to get a more bushy plant? How much do you water in winter? I had a large, yellow one for many years, but it died last winter. I keep them in my cellar with some artificial light. I was real sad about it, it was stemmed. They are hard to get here in Denmark. Not so popular. But I am nostalgic about them, we had one in the living room when I was a child. A large one.
I have my starts from this last summer that are still in my shed. I am just getting ready to prune them a bit, but I am going to try pruning half my starts and leaving the other half to see which responds better. I'll make another video and show you what I am learning soon.
This video is very informative, my red tiger got leggy and losing leaves. I prune it and hoping for the best. Imma give it fertilizer, do u have any particular fertilizer you recommend for it to become fuller again? Thank you I’m from NorCal
I pruned one of mine in the winter and it has come back strong and bushy. I have also done some trimming in the growing season and seen positive results for bushing out, too. I do not have a specific fertilizer that I feel confident recommending, but I have just used general things like Miracle Gro and that seems to work fine.
I have a red tiger but where we live in NV and with the hot weather the plan is not doing too well. I bought this few months back and have it in a pot with little morning sun( as morning sun is pretty hot here at the moment). I need to know why are the leaves turning brown. No blooms left now. I have it on drip system. Any advice Pl? Thanks
A couple thoughts... First, they do learn to take a fair amount of sun and heat, so I doubt that is the issue. They are also heavy feeders, so if they are not getting fertilized weekly or so, that could be it. Also, regarding the watering, perhaps in the middle of the day, after several hours after watering, tip the plant over and pop it out of the pot to see how the soil feels towards the bottom. If it is quite dry or deeply root bound, that may be part of the issue. Comment back if you learn anything...I'm curious about what you find.
Mine is very tall and spindly. Ive waited far too long to trim it and it's first branch is about 3 feet high and in total the plant is atleast 8-10 feet tall. Way too tall. How much trimming do you think it could withstand? I don't wanna kill it
I only let one go that tall last year, and it grew like crazy because it was in the ground, rather than a pot. I left it out all winter and I think it froze too much. With that said, I have trimmed others back quite a bit and they did great. I usually like to keep a couple nodes or leaves, so you might trim it back in sections.
I'm having a terrible time with scale bugs on my Abutilon plants. I've tried insecticidal soap which does kill the adults but the dead shells never detach so it's really difficult to tell if you've killed them all and I'll go look again a few weeks later and the infestation has retaken hold. Very frustrating esp during winter months when they're in storage/hibernation and I look again and the plant is literally covered in scales.
I am having my first trouble with this right now on some of the plants in my shed for winter storage. I just noticed recently, so now I've also got to figure it out. I'm not sure yet the best approach, but I'll come back later if I learn something helpful!
I am not sure, but in my area, it seems these plants are seasonal at the flower and garden nurseries. Once you find one, they are not too difficult to duplicate, and they grow quickly.
mine got very leggy and dropped lots of leaves over winter :( I didn't water enough. Will pruning help? or should I leave it sad looking at hope it gets better over the spring and summer?
Pruning will help kick it into new growth, so I would cut it back some, and fertilize. I am in the Seattle area and still have most of mine in my shed because of the temperatures, but they are starting to show hew growth. I'll do an update video soon!
Sort of... They are not really a climbing plant, but as they grow up, you could weave them into a trellis, and they would look nice. They respond more like a tree than a vine.
Thanks Andy, always interested in the medicinal properties of intriguing flowers. Adding them to my water they give a type of passion fruit taste. Nearly all of the flowers I have are edible and are always giving up some of their comic secrets. I'm just convinced that they are offering more than an aesthetic relationship.
It is not necessary, but it helps create the ideal environment for propagation and usually will increase your odds of success. It helps keep a humid environment for rooting.
I missed your comment a while back...sorry! I will look and see if I can find my old tag. I can't remember the exact name. That said, it has propagated nice, so more videos in the future on it!
I live in the same area as you and was just gifted one of these! I wasn't sure if it would survive up here, but you're giving me hope I can keep this thing alive! Thank you for sharing!
They have survived year after year when they are protected in my shed through the winter. Every one that stayed outside in the Seattle-area winter has died off each year, so I do think it is key to have it in a place like a garage, shed, or other spot that gets cool, but not freezes. They are a beautiful flower and plant!
I just bought one of these Tiger plants and it is so beautiful, will try to propagate it after seeing your success. Thanks for your videos.
I am excited about the new growing season. I had some great results with propagation last summer, but one thing I would do different is do this earlier, like early summer. My starts would have done a bit better with an additional month of growth before winter.
I have yellow, orange, red ones. Thank you for showing how to propagate.
It's over a month later and I have flowers about to pop from the first propagated ones. It has been pretty easy to get roots!
I am growing orange and red abutilon from cuttings for the first time, and they definitely grew very fast and the orange one is now flowering. I am in Northern California so I am hoping to get it in the ground once the danger of frost is gone. Thanks for all the great tips, especially about the location...I am trying to figure out where to plant it. Wonderful video.
Thanks for sharing and I also have a bunch of starts to get in the ground from cuttings. I started these late in the summer and they took off, but winter is a long wait! These flowers/bushes would make great gifts and seem fairly easy to do!
I just bought one of these and it’s a beautiful plant x
I agree...I look forward to continue to playing and expanding what I am doing with these. Enjoy yours!
Grown them this year in pots … we have pink flowering ones and are still flowering at the start of November . We live in New Brighton just over the river from Liverpool UK… thanks for your video. 😊
I'm glad you enjoyed it and these are fascinating plants to play around with. I look forward to getting some new varieties in the Spring and adding those to my collection.
16:30 i would disagree. Most varieties of Abutilon actually don't need sun and love dappled shade/filtered sun through the canopy of larger trees. They produce flowers purely based on nutrients, potash feed is what makes them bloom. That's why they are the plants that actually can bloom in a house in winter if it stays close to the sunny window and fed with potash. Red Tiger is a very tricky variety that is not as prolific and does require more sun. It's really fun to cross different colors of abutilon and grow from seed as they do have different growing habits, shape and size of the flowers:) If you allow more wind - they will grow nice thick tree-like trunk and you can shape it the way you want.
Thank you so much for share this information and also for pushing back a bit on ideas for growing these. I am sure that their is so much science and all that I have to learn, so this is helpful. I've also experienced that the hot sun is not good for them, but so far, the four or five varieties I have seem to thrive with filtered sun and even morning sun. I fertilize regularly, but I will research and perhaps try some of the ideas you share more. What region or weather do you typically experience?
@@backyardadventureswithandyI'm in the UK Midlands and I grow it in the ground and in the pot too. But I do grow them from seeds and cross to grow my own varieties. You can also prune the roots when it outgrows the pot. I'd really recommend feeding with tomato food type of fertiliser and try shadier spots with good air flow. If you bring your pot in house before the frost comes it will continue blooming as long as you feed (at least the red variety, probs not the red tiger). It blooms in house over the winter even in +10C so it's a really tough plant.
Thanks for sharing and I'll continue to experiment and try things out! Here where I am at, I do have to protect them more in the winter as anything that gets left outside had not survived. The abutilon seems to be a big hit for gifts, as so many people are in awe of the fun hanging flowers, especially the Red Tiger. I'll be sure to mention you in future videos, especially when I try your methods. @@vorong2ru
Very helpful. Thank you!
Thanks! These are also fairly responsive to propagating, too.
I have the orange one and love it.
I have the tangerine, and I agree. I'm a huge fan of these!
YESSSS i love this!!
😢gj68😅
I'm in the Seattle area too. My daughter gave me this plane for Mother's Day. I brought it in late October and have it on my dining room table with east sun shining in some days. The flowers are starting to fall off now. Should I move it to a cooler room. My thermostat is set at 68. When do I trim it? IT has grown a lit since I got it and flowered all summer on my deck on West side. I live it and want to make sure I can save it.
I am moving mine into my shed (that has windows) now, so that it avoids the hard freezes of winter. I did have one last year that I kept in my living space (room temp), but I find that in a garage, shed, etc. works great. I will save most of my pruning for late winter, but I have a couple that have grown large, so I will trim these back so that they fit in the shed space that I have for them. Over the winter, they will lose a few leaves periodically, but overall, they just go dormant. Every 6 to 8 weeks, I might also put some water in them to ensure they don't dry out.
Great video. Should I pot my outdoor Chinese lantern? I live in in Homosassa, FL
Your climate is totally different than mine, so I suspect you could do a lot and it would do fine. I have them in pots most of the time.
Hello! Very very informative video, thank you for doing it, i just bought a 3 ft tall red tiger, it has one flower and i can see many green tiny ones coming out, the leaves are not ss green as yours (im in texas) i am about to re-pot it to a bigger pot with garden miracle grow soil, should i wait to fertilize? Or can i do it right away? Thank you for any info, greetings from texas!
Thanks for watching and I hope your bush thrives. What I say, I say as a "backyard gardener," not an expert. I would report and fertilize at the same time. Also, I have found that my leaves are really rich green when shaded, but sometimes there are less flowers with more shade. For example, the varieties I had in more sun has way more flowers than the ones in the shade.
Thank you! @@backyardadventureswithandy
I grew my orange ones from seeds. I can't say they are really thriving though. One grew 1.5 m long, dropped the lower leaves and then suddenly started flowering like crazy.
His brother is growing slowly, also lost some lower leaves. Never has had any flowers.
Funny to see two plants from the same butch of seeds, in identical conditions and developing in a totally different way.
Today i chpped the big one in pieces and i will try to propagate it. Last year i tried the same, but none of the cuttings rooted. Maybe your tips will help. :)
Thank you for sharing your experience. Greetings from the other side of the globe.
Hello and I am looking for some different colors. I want to try orange or yellow this year. I am going to propagate again in another month, as people love getting these as gifts! They are a unique plant and flower in the area I am from.
Awesome video. I've had mine for a year and it has lots of buds and blooms, but my leaves are turning white. What would you suggest I do for it? I have tried fertilizing it and It gets dappled sun. I'm at a loss.
I had this recently on one of my starts, and I shifted the plant to a little less sun, and the new growth with ii is normal. However, when this was happening, my evening temps were still cool with some hit days mixed in. I am not convinced your issue is sun or temperature-swing related, but I think you could play with that. If you find out why, please message back on here. Perhaps changing the soil and repotting?
Quite easy to grow from seeds also. ❤
Thanks for sharing. I have not yet tried it from seed, but I sure enjoy these! Did you get a new variety or mix of flower through cross pollination?
@@backyardadventureswithandy i hope so ,my new plants are yet to bloom.
Hi , Thankyou for the info, I have a question, do you have any help with growing it in Hydro
I do not know about this...what is Hydro?
We have a red tiger variety and it has started to get sticky and oozey and it has little bumps all over the trunks and branches. Any idea what we might be dealing with? We think there might be a bug issue but not sure if that’s true.
I'm sorry, but I have not experienced that, but if you find out more, I'd love to hear back from you.
I am on Vancouver Island I have not been able to get the Red Tiger variety here any where, no one seems to stock that one. Nurseries don't seem to know about them, after much hunting around I have found a few varieties but sadly not the Red Tiger variety.
It comes and goes in Seattle, but it is definitely the best one I've seen. Hummingbirds love it. Flower World in Maltby is where I often see them.
Have you tried growing light on these plants? They can make up for the lack of light due to locations.
For me, I can just adjust placement, so I've never used artifical light. I go with sub in the morning or filtered sun.
I have a large seedling. You don't prune the baby plants to get a more bushy plant? How much do you water in winter? I had a large, yellow one for many years, but it died last winter. I keep them in my cellar with some artificial light. I was real sad about it, it was stemmed. They are hard to get here in Denmark. Not so popular. But I am nostalgic about them, we had one in the living room when I was a child. A large one.
I have my starts from this last summer that are still in my shed. I am just getting ready to prune them a bit, but I am going to try pruning half my starts and leaving the other half to see which responds better. I'll make another video and show you what I am learning soon.
This video is very informative, my red tiger got leggy and losing leaves. I prune it and hoping for the best. Imma give it fertilizer, do u have any particular fertilizer you recommend for it to become fuller again? Thank you I’m from NorCal
I pruned one of mine in the winter and it has come back strong and bushy. I have also done some trimming in the growing season and seen positive results for bushing out, too.
I do not have a specific fertilizer that I feel confident recommending, but I have just used general things like Miracle Gro and that seems to work fine.
I have a red tiger but where we live in NV and with the hot weather the plan is not doing too well. I bought this few months back and have it in a pot with little morning sun( as morning sun is pretty hot here at the moment). I need to know why are the leaves turning brown. No blooms left now. I have it on drip system. Any advice Pl?
Thanks
A couple thoughts... First, they do learn to take a fair amount of sun and heat, so I doubt that is the issue. They are also heavy feeders, so if they are not getting fertilized weekly or so, that could be it. Also, regarding the watering, perhaps in the middle of the day, after several hours after watering, tip the plant over and pop it out of the pot to see how the soil feels towards the bottom. If it is quite dry or deeply root bound, that may be part of the issue. Comment back if you learn anything...I'm curious about what you find.
Mine is very tall and spindly. Ive waited far too long to trim it and it's first branch is about 3 feet high and in total the plant is atleast 8-10 feet tall. Way too tall. How much trimming do you think it could withstand? I don't wanna kill it
I only let one go that tall last year, and it grew like crazy because it was in the ground, rather than a pot. I left it out all winter and I think it froze too much. With that said, I have trimmed others back quite a bit and they did great. I usually like to keep a couple nodes or leaves, so you might trim it back in sections.
I'm having a terrible time with scale bugs on my Abutilon plants. I've tried insecticidal soap which does kill the adults but the dead shells never detach so it's really difficult to tell if you've killed them all and I'll go look again a few weeks later and the infestation has retaken hold. Very frustrating esp during winter months when they're in storage/hibernation and I look again and the plant is literally covered in scales.
I am having my first trouble with this right now on some of the plants in my shed for winter storage. I just noticed recently, so now I've also got to figure it out. I'm not sure yet the best approach, but I'll come back later if I learn something helpful!
Where can I buy seedlings of abutilon? Tks
I am not sure, but in my area, it seems these plants are seasonal at the flower and garden nurseries. Once you find one, they are not too difficult to duplicate, and they grow quickly.
mine got very leggy and dropped lots of leaves over winter :( I didn't water enough. Will pruning help? or should I leave it sad looking at hope it gets better over the spring and summer?
Pruning will help kick it into new growth, so I would cut it back some, and fertilize. I am in the Seattle area and still have most of mine in my shed because of the temperatures, but they are starting to show hew growth. I'll do an update video soon!
@@backyardadventureswithandy Should I cut where the branch is still green? or is it okay to cut where the branch has gone woodier
@@backyardadventureswithandy thank you btw!!!
Could these things be made to climb a trellis?
Sort of... They are not really a climbing plant, but as they grow up, you could weave them into a trellis, and they would look nice. They respond more like a tree than a vine.
@@backyardadventureswithandy thanks very much
I am in 8B. What nurseries do you go to?
One of my favorites is Flower World in Maltby, WA. Outside of that, I roam, including my local McLendon's Hardware.
Heavy feeder of what 10-10-10, phosphate? Mine leaves are lime color not dark like yours 😮
I have been using Miracle Grow for mine, which I think is a 24-8-15. You might try repotting yours in a new potting soil.
Thanks Andy, always interested in the medicinal properties of intriguing flowers. Adding them to my water they give a type of passion fruit taste. Nearly all of the flowers I have are edible and are always giving up some of their comic secrets. I'm just convinced that they are offering more than an aesthetic relationship.
Sounds like you have some unique knowledge that I am clueless about right now. The mystery and reality of nature is pretty amazing in so many ways.
Is it necessary to cover cutting with plastic bottle?
It is not necessary, but it helps create the ideal environment for propagation and usually will increase your odds of success. It helps keep a humid environment for rooting.
which variety is the orange one that are closed? thx
I missed your comment a while back...sorry! I will look and see if I can find my old tag. I can't remember the exact name. That said, it has propagated nice, so more videos in the future on it!
Do u have hibiscus for sale?
I do not, and I don't really sell plants, just enjoy them and sometimes give them away.