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From: nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Bougainvillea
Message-ID: <10829@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 08:51:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 08:51:43 1985
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> > Here in Arizona, my neighbors are growing [Bougainvillea], with flowers
> > to the point of bending a branch to the ground.  The 3-yr old plants in
> > my backyard, however, hardly ever deign to put forth a flower.  
> > -- 
> > Fred Christiansen ("Canajun, eh?") @ Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ
> 
> The first year in my garden, ...I fertilized, but just got bigger vines.
> Next year ... again, I fertilized, and the vines
> went to the roof, but no flowers.  This year, I set
> the sprinklers for every other day and haven't fertilized. Beautiful
> flowers! 
> Bob Clayton
> Calma San Diego R&D
> 
> The opinions are those of my Bougainvillea.

Maybe bougainvillea is like peppers, tomatoes, peas, etc. who will produce
lush foliage without flowers if they have too much fertilizer (ie: not in
the sense of unhealthy, but in the sense that they are too dam happy with
their lot to go and produce progeny).  You might try giving it fertilizer
only well after it has started blooming (say, fall) and/or early spring
(and not too much).  These gorgeous vines bloom profusely in Florida where
they get 70+ inches of rain a year, but the "soil" is more like sand.
Nemo
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