How large can potted Salvia plants grow?

[Sea Mac]

How large can potted Salvia plants grow? I'm curious ...

I have a plant that is 25 months old in a 24" diameter plastic pot.

I call him "Calvin" and he's SUCH a dear plant to me. I love him, and I talk to him every day.

Here's another view of us and a few of the 'baby plants' sheltering under him:

Is this big? I thought he had a lot of growing to do yet! He's only 6' tall and might reach 10' yet.

Until somebody posts a picture of a larger plant I'm going to start calling him "The largest Salvia divinorum plant in captivity".

And if you want to see his 'baby pictures' of when he was 'just a little stick' go here:
My Little Garden.

(Honestly: I've got too many plants. I have to get rid of some.)

How large have YOUR potted Salvia plants gotten? Does anybody else have something like this?

[OBODAOUR]

Great pics man!!! That plant is truly amazing!!! Keep up the awesome work!!!

Blessings
ObOdAoUr

[laughingwillow]

Wow!

I'm guessing that jungle is happening on the north side of the house?

lw

[senorsalvia]

Hooraaayyy!!!   That just warms my heart to see such a thing....  I  personally have not seen a pic of one bigger...  Who knows just how large such a thing can get?----  Great stuff------ sal

[Sea Mac]

Wow!

I'm guessing that jungle is happening on the north side of the house?

lw

(chuckling) I'm busted!

No, that tree is under a tarp on the east side of my building!

This is a shot of a dozen trees growing on the north side of the building (in full sun: they need a tarp too!)

See the harsh sun shining through the tender leaves? Hundreds and HUNDREDS of Leaves and Dozens of cuttings to be potted SOON!

I've got to crawl under Henry to get at the 5 Giant trees beyond him.  (I've been holding out on you guys: YOU had to go and ask the Question no one had asked yet ... )

 :lol:    :lol:  :!:

("Wastes More than some people grow": as COMPOST! Happiest damn earthworms you ever did see ...)

I read somewhere that the natives won't plant that next to the house because "It might envelope (encircle) the house at night". So, I'm doomed ... Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!

[winder]

Awesome!

[Xaar]

Do you prepare for another psychedelic revolution or what?

[Sea Mac]

I couldn't trust my eyes so today I took a Tape measure out to measure a 4 month old Baby.

I've repotted this Plant this evening and She is named "Sally" now ...

Before I repotted Sally she measured 26" tall (She was root bound, in an 8" pot, poor baby):
 

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But what astonished me SO Much was the SIZE of her Leaves!
 

I measured a leaf at 12" (30 cm) from stem to end ...

Salvia's Leaves CAN reach a Foot long (Rarely)!

Some sort of Record setting Leaf  there ...

[laughingwillow]

!Sweet jesus/ sweet dreams
wake up to find out you've been
turned into greenman!

I've felt those cosmic
tendrils of plant energy
always on the creep....

Thanks for the peepshow into your outer sally-torium...

lw

[Sea Mac]

You are Welcome   :wink:  .

You asked nicely ...

http://seamac.info/cupboard/garage/gard ... babies.jpg

[dendro]

SeaMac. those are fine plants, o yeah...

They really love your climate, and your soil.

Here in tropical Hawaii, I get great growth when I bother to feed them well. Sometimes the main stalk gets 8 feet long. When I first started growing them, just in 1.5gal bags of homemade compost, they got huge, with 8" leaves commonly, close to 12" including petioles, but never fully 12" leaves, that's a record imo. And they never branched into trees the way yours have. They make vertical stems of a certain size, then make new younger stems from the base. Stems from higher up tend to split off easily. I have seen some big ones on the island. but they tend to "vine", rather than bush up the way yours have.

Oddly, it is mid-June, and I have an outdoor plant in a 3gal pot that has a top cola flower cluster now,. even tho the day length is too long for flowering.

[Sea Mac]

SeaMac. those are fine plants, o yeah...

They really love your climate, and your soil.

Here in tropical Hawaii, I get great growth when I bother to feed them well. Sometimes the main stalk gets 8 feet long. When I first started growing them, just in 1.5gal bags of homemade compost, they got huge, with 8" leaves commonly, close to 12" including petioles, but never fully 12" leaves, that's a record imo. And they never branched into trees the way yours have. They make vertical stems of a certain size, then make new younger stems from the base. Stems from higher up tend to split off easily. I have seen some big ones on the island. but they tend to "vine", rather than bush up the way yours have.

Oddly, it is mid-June, and I have an outdoor plant in a 3gal pot that has a top cola flower cluster now,. even tho the day length is too long for flowering.

This 'baby' plant was barely 4 months old when I named her "Sally" and gave her a 10" pot (And Measured her):


She was 26 inches high (66 cm) and she had a Lovely leaf a foot long (30 cm)  ...


These two pictures were taken May 24th 2007.



3 Weeks later (June 13th - 5 days ago) I measured "Sally" again.

     :mrgreen:


The SAME PLANT (The one on the left with measuring tape against it) 3 weeks Later is now 41 Inches tall (105 cm)!  

And she has even bigger leaves now at (34 cm) thirteen inches:


In 21 days this plant grew fifteen inches!   :mrgreen: That is ALMOST 2 centimeters (Or 2/3 Inch) PER DAY!!!!

NOW I know for SURE that my plants DO grow from a quarter to a half an inch a day and it's NOT my imagination!

Even Calvin got bigger in one month!


Happy Hawaiian Growing!

(If a plant has Support and you take it's top for a cutting it branches into a "Y" shape.  after several times it gets very branchy!

Check this Page out:  http://members.cox.net/sageseeds/  for some pictures of out of Season Racemes on Salvia d

[oreandra]

sea mac,

How in the world do you manage this? Some of my plants are in bigger pots, but they never grow that much! I've had a few plants for a several years. I mean WOW! my best leaf was only 7inches and most only 2-3...

I live in the Appalachians...maybe they like more warmth? It gets to 85 here and is pretty humid.   :? I give them a fair amount of western sun...care to share?

[Sea Mac]

sea mac,

How in the world do you manage this? Some of my plants are in bigger pots, but they never grow that much! I've had a few plants for a several years. I mean WOW! my best leaf was only 7inches and most only 2-3...

I live in the Appalachians...maybe they like more warmth? It gets to 85 here and is pretty humid.   :? I give them a fair amount of western sun...care to share?

I guess San Diego is second only to Hawaii for growing Salvia outdoors!

I'm kind of working on Picture Tutorials (Like my "Grow your own Salvia Seeds" page at http://members.cox.net/sageseeds/ ) for that ... but they're works in progress still

http://sageseeds.info/tutorials

So, I give them LOTS of root room / I water them when they dry out / They are in the Shade but get sunlight reflected off surrounding buildings. And Miracle-Gro fertilizer, of Course ...

More tips as I get them on my web page (Under Construction).

[Sea Mac]

The North Garden has Shade now:


The East Garden has several dozen plants this big:


Count the poles in this Picture: each is a plant in a seperate pot!