My iboga grow

Lookin' great, Stoney!  Can't wait to see the little babies get big!

can you describe the soil and nutrients and light/heat conditions lookng very healthy

Welcome aboard, Stoney - good to have you! Those are some beauties

Thanks brightwillow and greatful. I tend to shorten long names and i hope no one is offended. Atom, i germed them in moist peat and perlite under plastic wrap. Then transferred to regular potting soil with perlite. I kept them warm at all times, tried for 80f or a bit higher. They don't seem to like high light levels but do like their ferts. Fert them regularly. I use peter's 20-20-20 with micro nutes. They have just shot right up.

Welcome jill_rests, good to see you here wonderful plants !

Looking Beautiful!

Thanks everyone for the kind words. Here are a few of them.

Very nice, stoney. They look very happy.

sweet! keep it up

Here is one at about 4 months. You can see the branching on top. It's too big for the 3" pot and needs repotting. I'll put it outside soon.

marvelous

I noticed that one of my ibogas has flowers on it. With luck i'll get a seed pod. If not this time then perhaps in the spring or summer after they all flower.

WOW. thats growing pretty quick! pretty nice for 4 months. So beautiful, I am very jealous... By the way stoney, you wouldn't happen to be "Stonehenge" from the net would you? Keep up the great work! Keep us updated!, and let us see one of those beautiful flowers! And really it only took 4 months to get it to flower? Did it autoflower or did you have to change the light cycle to 12/12? Or was it just from natural outdoor short days? Peace and Love. Great Grow.

Yeah that is spectacular Stoney! Thanks for keeping us up to date man, and keep growing brother!

Thanks, brightwillow and Ins. I should take a pic of the flowers before they all drop off. I just went out and took a look and its too late. They didn't drop off like before but they withered up. There is a slight bulge at the base of the flowers. Do you suppose it could be a seed? I don't know if i'm supposed to get pods or individual seeds. I'd be thrilled with a few seeds. At least i'd know they were fresh. But they would be selfed seeds since no other plant flowered. The others just barely survived. I'm sure its been more than 4 months, seems like about a year or so. Yeah, its me.

You'd think the seeds would come from the fruit...

very nice indeed stoney ! keep up the good work ! I look for a supplier of good seeds too. If anyone can pm me the whereabout. Thanks.

Yeah jill_rests, I'm with GD - I reckon the seeds would come from the fruit...but man it sure is nice to see those pics, I know you have been working hard on those babies, keep lovin' them and they'll reward you bro! PS> I'd eat the flowers that fell off. Just because.

The flowers fell off after a cold spell but its been warm lately and i see more flowers on the largest plant. The others have not flowered yet but i have another one almost as large and i have hopes for it. If any of the flowers open i'll post up a pic. Does anyone know if they are self fertile?

Today i saw a flower and i thought i'll have something nice to show to the group. It was white, about 1" long or a little less, perhaps a 1/4" wide at the opening and trumpet shaped. The sun was glaring so i decided to wait till later in the day. Then it rained and after the rain i went out. Unfortunately the flower had already fallen off. Lets hope that means a seed or seed pod will develop but i doubt it. All i saw left behind were stem stubs. I took a pic of some preflowers. I think perhaps the plant is too young to set seed just yet. Maybe later in the year it will or perhaps next year. I tried to upload a photo but it wouldn't let me.

I heard from someone in another country who is growing a bunch of them outdoors. He says he has a number of them growing and flowering but not fruit forms. It may be like hbwr that need precise growing conditions, temp, photoperiod, humidity, etc before it will set seed. Another possibility is that local insects cant fert the flowers since the blooms are too long and narrow for the insects to get to the bottom. Hand pollenation may be the key.