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My Impateins plants have finally started puttin out some buds again! And now I have discovered how to tell which one will have peach blooms and which one purple.
The purple blooming ones have a much darker green foilage, and strangly enough, the leaves open differently.
The regular green ones (peach blooms)look like little buds, then the sides uncurl, and then the tip opens out.
The dark green ones just start out as little pointed leaves and the side just unroll. The tip is already out there.

Do you over winter these plants inside Shirley???

Yes, I raised them completely inside. In the fall when they dropped all their buds I was told it was because they were in a draft, so I moved them back away from open windows. Now they are starting to get a few buds. One is just about open this morning. I'm sure it will finish opening today. I can't put it in direct sunlight either, as it gets very limp then.

my daughter has some that she has been growing inside for 2 years now. her's look pretty good, but until she did that, i always thought of them as "bedding plants"

They do sell them in hanging baskets so it should work. They sell begonias as outdoor plants and I've seen folks use them as indoor plants too. Guess it's whatever floats yer boat

I have some indoors , blooming their heads off all winter. They do take a break and come back just as nice.. Mine are pink doubles.

Mine are salmon color, and some purple, not doubles.
I have srouts of red ones and lavendar.

any pix of ur plant

No, I don't have a camera. Maybe some day.

shirley ,

DOes your Impatiens look like my plant?


;o)

Mine isn't that big or hanging, but yes, that's it!! My blooms aren't doubles though.

shirley,

Ok .......I grew this one from seeds last fall, and kept it inside since......I was shocked how nice it preformed..

It's beautiful!!

I have had mine since last Mother's Day. a little plant with one flower in a styrofoam cup. Mine got about two-thirds the size of yours by fall, and had bloomed profusely!!!. Then in the fall put out about 20 more buds, which all fell off.
I have made many starts from it and have them sitting all over, but the main two are putting out lots of buds again, but these two fat ones just refuse to fully open. It is the weirdest thing.
But I love them all.

Well you guys taught me something. I never thought to grow impatiens inside. I grow begonia though.

I too grow impatiens inside during winter, I love them!

Tom

Are you going to show us after blooming.?

If these buds open, which I have MANEY now, I will ask my son to bring his camera over and take some pics for me!

Some of the stems around the outside of the larger plant are beginning to hang and trun upward, so if I hung it up it would start looking like yours.

Good, I wanna see....
I think your worrying too much. My pinkie lost the blossoms and is going into another rebloom phrase.. It does that all the time.......

They grow so pretty on the east side of my house with morning sun.

Mine are on the east side too, and once again they are loaded with blooms, and once again they are falling off!!! I am sick!! and don't know what to do!!!!

:/

Shirley, do the blooms open at all ? Or just fall off?

Mine open for a few days and fall off .. That is the normal cycle.

YOur poor girl.

Do you move the plant at all,
or relocate it, like if it was facing
one way, and then you give it a quarter turn or something??

No......

I have them in 2 different places right now......
one is south window in the corner......not direct light.
The others are Back away from the windows......
If the room is hot , it may not like it .. Mine are on the cool side......No registers at all in those rooms, just open doors..........
I just pinch off pieces and stick them into the potting soil and they root like crazy......

No, they don't open, they just get big and fat and full of color then get soft and droop and fall off!

Yes I have to move them. They set back away from the window but when the morning sun comes in on them they don't like it so I move them to the floor or the couch if necessary.

I start lots of pieces. The do root very easily. I have lots of seeds up, sprouted and healthy. Various colors.
If they grow up acclimated to my apartment, maybe they won't drop blooms.
I just can't figure out why all the buds bloomed last summer; then started doing this when it budded again.

I don't know if impatiens do the same,
but it sounds like tomatoes and *Blossom Drop*

Are there any extremes' in temps for the plants
to where they are?

Hot to cold, or always hot, or in some kind of
constant draft or furnace/heater blowing???

If they are drooping from the sun move them to shade.
Mine only seem to droop when they need water......They drink lots of that.......North and east side is best place for them.

YOu sure have me confused........Are they root bound by any chance?

My one is and drinks lots of water.

b

It is near the east window.

Never in direct sun.

No draft nearby.

Can't see through pot so don't know if root bound.

They all love water it seems, even the babies.

I finally had ONE bud open the other day, as others were falling off!

See progress already......
How long has the oldest one been in the same pot? Mine since last fall......I know it is root bound.

My mother plant has probably been in it's pot about that long also!! It had been transplanted from a smaller one

Another one, which is from cuttings of its mother, is probably two thirds of the size of the mother plant, but is still in a MUCH smaller pot, but it is the one which finally had two buds open.

All my babies are in small pots and aren't even thinking about budding yet.

So, you think the the first two are root bound? So I need to change pot size? But can I do that with all the buds on there or should I wait until the end of its budding season?

It's almost time to put them outside......I wouldn't worry now......DO you feed them any miracle gro solution?

They maybe weak.....I use some about every 3 or 4 weeks.

I used some just a couple of weeks ago! I can't put anything outside (after I ask apt. mgr. permission!) until construction guys are through with whatever-all they are doing out there.

Ok do you have a tiny porch?

Helps?

Nope. No porch or balcony.
There's a little garden-patio outside our Library downstairs. That's where I'm going to ask to put flowers once the construction guys are through trampling all over the place.

Down aways from our bldg. where our drive curves around to the street is a strip of land that they plow each spring (whitch hasn't happened yet). The residents can ask for a small plot of it to grow flowers or vegetables. I got one square one year; went down there to weed it, and the chiggers are so bad that I was covered with bites all over my body, clear up to my eyes!! I won't go through that again! Also the soil down there is nothing but clay!! I would have had to buy so many bags of stuff to work into it to make dirt, that I couldn't afford that. So that was the end of my dream of planting down there.

Have to think us some nice inside flowers for you to be part of the gardening..........
Now and then I think of something.....