Hibiscus tip needed :D

[Vezoktor]

Does anyone have some good tips on how to keep a hibiscus alive longer? Or to at least keep it nice and healthy? Please and thank you!

 

[TheReptisentative]

Does anyone have some good tips on how to keep a hibiscus alive longer? Or to at least keep it nice and healthy? Please and thank you!

lots of light and fast draining soil and dont move it too much

 

[tdotcham]

keep it outdoors lol. these things dont do very well without a lot of sunlight ive found.

 

[carol5208]

keep it outdoors lol. these things dont do very well without a lot of sunlight ive found.

ditto! The flowering plants really seem to need natural sunlight. You could always buy two plants and rotate them in and out or the sun and back and forth into your enclosure but that might be a pain in the butt to do!

 

[chdwckvnstrsslhm]

yea, they need the sunlight... I wonder if you could buy plant growlights and that would suffice. :shrug:

 

[carol5208]

Yeah, there are grow lights that people use in the their enclosures, but nothing beats natural sunlight, just like with the UVB and our chameleons!

 

[ghettomike]

the hibiscus that I have in my chams enclosure is doing fairly good. I brought it in from outdoors approx 2 months ago, it lost some leaves near the bottom but has new growth at the top and has about 5 new buds/flowers blooming. I have a exo terra hood with two 26 watt 6500k cfls for the plants and it seems to really help (at least at the top of the plant anyways) but I think I will still swap it out once next spring comes along to get it thriving again. I water it approx once every three days or so.

 

[Eppler]

I have three 2.0 lights and both of mine are doing great and bloom all the ti

me.

 

[Vezoktor]

gee thank a lot guys and gals! You are such a great source of help!