Hardy Tropicals UK

not looking too healthy ? is it on its way to the dump?

Is it squidgy in the top? You don't have to dump it, you could always carve it http://www.pacificbliss.com/images/fin% ... 0Gaua.html

is it squidgy in the top ? no its quite dry and fury ! pour jug of warter on it daily and spray trunk and it sucks it up ! can feel more fonds anouther three put small ! ?

Ah! A piccies worth a thousand words, it'll be alright; drop a couple of Chicken manure pellets in the crown to give it a bit of a feed or even some ready made Tree Fern food http://www.deserttojungle.com/products/ ... _food/177/
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ok thanx i did put some diluted seaweed feed last month but could not say if it has done anything ?

looks like tiny fronds so is still alive. Give it plenty of TLC and hope for the best. No dump yet

Mine is exactly the same just little furry bumps it's 3ft tall and i planted it in the late spring it had been in the same pot for a bout 8 years so im guessing it will channeling it's energy into the roots but im gonna give the pellets a ago in the crown and base fingers crossed

hi all bit of a update stiil no fonds got excited around july august when it was pushing up five fonds at one time but with in a week they had turned brown and died off ! also have noticed woodlice runnig around the crown is this a good thing ? last week we had a ground frost so decided to bring it into the conservatory as tempature a bit more constiance is there any dos or donts for growing inside ? watering feeding etc !

Hi...I have woodlice etc in mine outside...so I think thats normal......just keep it moist in the crown.

green fingers wrote:last week we had a ground frost so decided to bring it into the conservatory as tempature a bit more constiance is there any dos or donts for growing inside ? watering feeding etc !

Make sure you water it every day, lots of water. Your fern is in the process of recovering it will produce bigger fronds again but it will be a few years before it does.

Was it kept in the conservatory last winter? If so was it watered?

I had the same with my smaller one a few years ago, it was kept in the con over winter and wasn`t watered. I`ve had 2 full flushes from it this year but the fronds are still smaller than I would lik, they are getting bigger each flush though.

Mine now has 3 or 4 nodes im not giving up im thinking of piping a radiator behind it i guess our lass would'nt be happy