Advice needed with FDK After Dark - forced winter rest needed?
A friend of mine has had this FDK After Dark for about 18 months now. She brought it round to mine because she wanted a bit of advice on it, as it's never flowered for her.
It has 2 "new" PBs forming -- I say "new", as one of them is 6 months old now, and the other (marginally larger) one is a little over a year (!) old. Neither of them appear to have any viable roots, and the larger of the 2 is hanging onto the previous PB by a thread. Leaves are all healthy-looking, and the older PB is still putting out new leaves (!). I unpotted it to get a better idea of what's going on.
What I found was a really tightly packed ball of predominantly dead roots and decomposing pine bark. I trimmed off what dead roots I could, but got a bit scared of going any further for fear of damaging what viable roots were still alive in the knot. As already stated, the "new" growths have few to no viable roots, and appear to be surviving off of whatever remaining roots the old PBs have in the middle of that tightly-packed mess (I'm guessing there aren't too many of them, either).
Could anyone recommend how to proceed with this plant? My guess would be that it needs a period of dormancy so it can put out at least one new growth and start growing some much-needed new roots.
Thoughts?
PS: Sorry about the sideways photos, just spent an hour trying to correct it, no dice. The forum obviously doesn't like my new phone.
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