Stewart Robert Hinsley <{$news$}@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote in
<fI7LEEAmYGn+EwaM at meden.demon.co.uk>:
>In article <Xns935E9D4ECF518johncollenoreoonca at 207.35.177.135>, John
><johncoll6 at hotmail.com.nospam> writes
>>Hi,
>>Often when I see hibiscus plants for sale is a nursery, their leaves
>>are an envious dark green, darker than those on plants growing outside
>>and darker than I can make them with a balanced fertilizer. What is it
>>that people add to these plants to cause the leaves to turn so dark?
>>>I'm told that it's a side effect of a dwarfing agent used on the plants
>to make them suitable for use as pot plants.
Stewart,
What you say is interesting and you are probably correct. I have a large
collection of hibisci, all of which I started from cuttings. (One of these
came from Bali in Indonesia). None of my plants has had the benefit of a
dwarfing agent.
John
