Divided Plants: Red Hot Poker Update (2 of 2) - Kniphofia 'Poco Orange'

[@jawwadhaider5908]

Nice multiply techniques 👍

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Thanks 👍

[@toddstropicals]

That'll look beautiful! I recall my father planting red-hot pokers as a little kid in the 70's. I even got my backside paddled for picking the spikes for sword fights... Evil child.😆👍

[@GardeningatDouentza]

You divil!

[@aishabegum9192]

Thanks for the update love to see they lived

[@botanicaltreasures2408]

“And now for the rest of the story!” Thanks for sharing this update. 🌿

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Welcome

[@botanicaltreasures2408]

Gardening at Douentza 😊

[@FernandaNascimentoOrchids]

I love plants with long strappy leaves. Ansious for the flowers too.

[@Nulife23]

That's what I do...at the end season many pots are on sale so I divide. These are my very favorite flower/plant.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

I think gardening is often about thrift. It teaches us good skills :) Thanks for watching and happy growing!

[@danberger5381]

I just watch your 1st and followup episode on dividing the Red Hot pokers. I live in Chicago area of the US. I've often divided mature perennials from my garden into divided smaller plants, but I've always planted the "divisions" directly into the garden itself. I see that you planted the divisions into pots (instead of directly into the garden). Why did you do this? And how long did you keep them in the pots before you re-planted them into your garden. Thank you. You make wonderful videos.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Good morning from Wexford, Ireland to Chicago and thank you for your question. When I divide garden plants in either spring or autumn I also put them directly into the ground and they get going without even a blink. The reason why I put these divisions into pots is because they were small. Small divisions need careful watering which is best accomplished in a pot. I guess you could put them straight in the ground, if you were able to keep a daily eye on them until they established, but that would be hard for me to manage here. Hope I've answered your question, I wish you a great day!

[@aw3277]

These poker plants seem to be a staple at Aldi's plantings and set to seed very readily in the fall. I tried throwing the seed about to see what happened. Nothing. Have you tried germinating from seed? For a sturdy plant they do seem slow.

[@GardeningatDouentza]

Good evening and thank you for watching and commenting. I have grown kniphofia from seed but the ones in the video ones are cultivars so I am not sure that they will produce any viable seed. Even if they do, the resultant plants will not come true to the parent so I will not bother.

[@ignacio8358]

Hi, when did the red hot pokers finally bloom after the division? One year later, two?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

One year later. Check out the August garden tour video from 2019... kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZuYnnmVZdOLh7s

[@frankblangeard8865]

Kniphofia require full sun. Where in Ireland are you located that gets full sun?

[@GardeningatDouentza]

A lot of my garden in Wexford gets full sun, as do many other Irish gardens. You can see this kniphofia in flower in the July Garden Tour video coming soon.

[@frankblangeard8865]

@@GardeningatDouentza I just checked the weather forecast for Wexford. In the next 14 days only one has partial sun. All the others are cloudy. At least in Oregon, U.S.A. we have a sunny summer. The last several days here have had high temperatures around 100 degrees F (38 C).

[@GardeningatDouentza]

@Frank Blangeard So, you have hotter summers than us. My kniphofias find the Irish summer adequate. I am not sure what your point is.