HARDY HIBISCUS WINTER CARE 

if you trim them that short before winter the plant crown can rot, the bigger stems have large hollow centers. lots of growers recommend leaving the dead cane up all winter and trim in spring

Thanks, just planted one this year, your info is very helpful 😊

So, I’m in Minnesota and love my Hibiscus trees/plants and also leave them in ground over the cold cold winters. My process is very similar. Some things I do are similar. However, I give the phosphate (not nitrogen) and some bone meal as well as water heavily before I cut them to about 3-4 inch branches. Also since I’m in MN, I use large parking cones. I take a parking cone and put tape over the top hole. Then turn it inside out and shove as much dead leaves or hay in the large bottom hole. Than simply flip quick, put on top and shaken gently to get the leaves and hay loose and remove the tape from the top. This is what I have found to protect from wind, severe cold, snow, plows if by driveway or any other damage. Might fine a field mouse nest in the spring but they won’t touch the plant. And you give a nice warm spot for a mouse. It also keeps it all nice, clean and easy to know where your protect tree/plant in.

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Great information about caring for our Hardy hibiscus that I started growing first time zone 7b. Always have wintered inside my tropical varieties for years, still do, but wanted to try the newer bush growing native at last. Many thanks for the fall help.

Devin I absolutely love my hibiscus. I live in Pensacola Beach Florida mine get over 6 ft I cut them back around Dec. I can't wait til spring and see what is your Hot item is for 2023. keep the videos coming my friend.

Thanks Devin!

Very informative. Thanks for sharing.

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I don’t have a hibiscus because I live in a condo with only a flower bed out front and those are full. But I really love the flowers. This was great information.

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Very informative thank you for sharing. I do have few of those plants in pots. I should do the same you did or there is a different method, and how about watering those during the winter. thank you.

Thank you. I thought I had killed my plant! It’s April in Zone 6 some leaves are sprouting.

Planted some of this last spring. They were beautiful in the summer fall. I did winterizer in zone 7 my question is what do you fertilize them with and when?

I began growing Hibiscus moschuetos from seed sold by Northrup-King early in the 1960s. These had been selected for larger blooms, broader floral segments, stronger colors, and for solid red and white with red center forms along with pink forms with deeper and more uniform pink colors than most wild H. moscheutos. Vegetatively, they were nearly identical to wild H. moscheutos. During the late 1970s Japanese plant breeders (who also developed outstanding seed strains of other native US wildflowers such as Lisianthus [Eustoma grandiflora] and Baby Blue Eyes [Nemophila menziesii]) released an oustanding F1 seed strain of H. moscheutos under the NA market name of "Southern Belle". These bore huge, heavy substanced flowers with broad petals that formed usually perfect circles in outline, in intense deep pink, white with a red center, solid red, and blush pink shading to white at the periphery with a red center. The plants were similar in height and habit to their wild ancestor, but like many F1 hybrids, the blooms of each color variety were remarkably uniform in quality. A big plus for both commercial producers and home gardeners was that Southern Belle would bloom during the first summer if started early indoors from seed. A few years later, the same Japanese breeders (Sakata Seeds?) released another F1 hybrid seed strain, Disco Belle. These produced plants that averaged half the height and spread of Southern Belle, with equally large and possibly even more uniformly high quality blooms in the same color forms. Southern Belle appears to have disappeared from US commerce, and today's listings ubder this name are usually from uncontrolled open pollinated descendants of Southern Belle. Disco Belle (a reference to the uniform roundness of the blooms) has been largely replaced by the very similar Luna series, an F1 strain developed by Pan American Seed. Containerized plants of Luna and Disco Belle sold in bloom at retailers have usually been treated with growth regulators to reduce height and spread. While I miss the natural growth height and habit of the Southern Belle series, Disco Belle and Luna grown for a season without growth regulators will produce fuller and more graceful plants than the treated plants usually sold. I do have one disagree with pruning H. moscheutos in the fall when stems are still live and green. Host generalist viruses have been a growing problem with my H. moscheutos, and cutting live tissue can spread these, while cutting dead stems in the spring does not. Like many plants, H. moscheutos responds to initial viral infection with stunting, loss of vigor, and subtle mosaic or ringspot symptoms in foliage. Infected plants usually develop tolerance to viruses, but almost always remain systemically infected. Seeds from infected plants may or may not be free of such viruses. Visible symptoms such as leaf mosaic and stunting will often subside and seemingly disappear, but side by side comparison of infected and uninfected plants will often show striking differences in vigor and floral quality. When I've examined dead stems of H. moscheutos just as new shoots are starting to emerge, the new growth has always emerged from the base of last year's stems well below the soil line. If you pull up the dead stems, this can be seen very clearly, as this will usually uproot the associated new shoots as well. Plant viruses cannot infect dead material, though dead plant material can and often does harbor still infective virus particles. Thus cutting dead stems to the ground cannot infect the plant being pruned with virus from another previously cut plant if the pruner avoids cutting live growth. Plant viruses generally do not infect live plant tissue that is inactive or mature as readily as tissue undergoing rapid growth. This reduces but does not eliminate the possibility of virus transmission by fall pruning of H. moscheutos. I've noticed that in keeping with the inexorable trend towards ever more misleading advertising, many internet advertisers are showing photos of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis cultivars as H. moscheutos. The former is a tropical plant with glossy deep green foliage that cannot tolerate prolonged or severe frost, or cold induced dormancy! Also, no existing strain of H. moscheutos has the ruffled petals, or the orange, yellow, or lavender colors (often in combination) of many newer H. rosa-sinensis. P.S. I'm in upstate NY, where severe winters require growing H. moscheutos as a container plant, to be moved into a lightly heated shed for the winter.

Hey Devin! What should I do with my Robertas trip dinner plates? My Robertas Dahl is are still blooming! I'm in 7b

I don't have hibiscus but I do need to dig up my pellargoniums.

I got a hibiscus TREE by airlayering a long branch from my friend 8 years ago, now she is 12+ feet high. She is vulnerable to aphids, but it's hard to spray to kill them because of the height. Do you have any variety with stronger diseases resistance recommend so that I can graft? I live in 9b,California.

Should I do the same for the Summerific Holy Grail Hibiscus? Cause I am located in the GA area and I have noticed that they are turning. I have them planted outside in the front of the house.

Hi Devin am in zone 5b my stumps are beige now am wondering if they are still alive. How long do I wait to see if they will come back?

Do you have to cut them back ? And if you don't is there a high likely chance they will but from the trunks or stems ?

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Should I prune a rose of Sharon and if so, when should this be done?

then how do people have huge bushes if they are always cutting them down....also I am in Houston Texas ...do I have to wait till june for it to come back?

does 'Midnight Marvel' Hardy Hibiscus create seedlings everywhere

Not sure if youll answer this, but my hibiscus has punk flowers and much more woody stems. Bought it from the Home Depot and planted it in the ground mid summer. Had tons of leaves and flowers bloom, now most the leaves have dropped off and its looking pretty sad. I assume I dont prune it back as much as you did since it has wooded stems right? Also a different structure in general to yours, more of a full bush.

I cut mine back to one foot,then pile leaves and pine needles on them for winter

Does it matter type of leaves to cover such as oak versus maple?

Do u cut the hibiscus after the first frost or before?

What if I don’t cut them? I want them to grow over 6 feet. I want to plant them in the Poconos, PA.

Can this type of hibiscus survive tropical climates? I have never seen them before

If only we could grow our own: Hibiscus sabdariffa L. species

I bought 6 but do I need to do this in zone 9b?

Can straw be used instead of leaves? I’m I’m Toronto Canada

What month to move hibiscus from pot to ground?

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Thank you so much for the information but listening to your comments I noticed that you use the term these ones instead of these and anyways instead of anyway, my grandkids speak like this also drives me crazy!