Latest Bonchi Projects - by Fatalii

[Fatalii]

Well, I water them with ordinary watering jug, little by little.

Some types of mosses actually help with the watering by sucking the water in.

There's no big risk of overwatering with bonchis as you can water them very often and they still will drink all the water.
I water them in 2 or 3 day cycles so they are mostly quite dry all the time.

You can also use spraying can etc if you find it easier.
Then you can spray the foliage too.
Bonchis really love it.

Or you can water them, like you said, from underneath if your pots (hopefully) have holes on the bottom.
Just let them sit in a kitchen washbasin with a little water on the bottom for a while.

The easiest way must be the sprayer can.

[Trizza]

Is there any benefit to spraying the foliage? I've been giving mine a spray every now and again, not sure if its good or bad to do.

[Fatalii]

Yeah, it's very good actually, especially when bonchis have been just cutted and their roots are re-generating.

Also, spraying foliage keeps mites off as they like dry and hot envinroment.

[Fatalii]

Here's my latest Tepin, Guatemala Bonchi.
I really hope it will survive...

Doesn't look too good just yet but if you have tried bonchis, you can imagine how it might look a little later...

[Fatalii]

Finally here's the update for the previously posted Tepin, Guatemala:



Starts to look a little better doesn't it?

Still takes time to make it look like I wanted it to.

Guatemalan tepin is definitely my favorite for the bonchi stuff at the moment.

[jla1710]

I guess you need to water those on regular basis like once a day due to the small pot size. Not suitable for people who travel a lot

[Fatalii]

Hmm actually when you use both moss (to prevent water from evaporating) and akadama / cat clay you can be away a few days... for more it's actually easier with bonchis than with larger pots as you can place bonchis on a wide container with water in it.

[Fatalii]

Here's the progress of the Tepin, Guatemala Bonchi:


Link if you can see it completely:
http://fatalii.net/kehitys.jpg

[Pavlak]

I guess it was growing under UFO last month?
On the first photo (01.05.2009) it's AeroFLO?
Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Fatalii]

Actually, it was growing under 20watt fluorescent tube. I tried to keep it under UFO too but the light was too intense for it at the first, I try to harden the plant for it little by little.

The system on the first pic is a rockwool sack for dripfeed.

[Fatalii]

Some new bonchi projects shown here:
Few pics taken yesterday:





And then a few bit older which need to be photographed again in a few days:

[Fatalii]

Updated photo of Bolivian Rainbow Bonchi:

[Bugger]

Thats beautiful Bolivian Rainbow! How did you manage to keep it alive? All of mine and the ones my friends have had died after one summer. I thought it was impossible to grow them for more that one season!

[Fatalii]

Hmm, I think Bolivian Rainbow is very tough plant.
After cutting it down like shown on http://fatalii.net/bonchi, I provided plenty of light for it.
After it was showing some signs of life, the rest was very easy.

[Fatalii]

Latest pic of the Bolivian Rainbow bonchi.

More and more flowers forming:

[Fatalii]

Latest pic of the Bolivian Rainbow bonchi here:

[Fatalii]

Latest pic of C. rhomboideum bonchi:

[Fatalii]

And a little progress again:

[teemu]

On kyllä todella nätti bonchi.

[Fatalii]

Latest pic of Bolivian Rainbow -bonchi, "Bobo"
I thought it was worth naming.