Nope. You’ll rot the roots, end up with a fungal disease, or bothI read/see in everyplace to keep the soil always moist, so it is not the case?
The funny thing with Serissas is that they are only that finnicky indoors, in any tropical or subtropical climate they are like weeds very easy to cultivate outdoorsThey sell these novelties with instructions to kill them!
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So cool. Plants are amazing how they have evolved!!! They are definately not a native species here in MD. One of my house trees that shouldn't be here, but I keep cause my wife (really the whole family) loves the flowers and it helps keeps my hands off the other 'want to be' bonsai's that I have. I wish I could afford to travel to all the native habitats of my bonsai to see them in the wildsThe funny thing with Serissas is that they are only that finnicky indoors, in any tropical or subtropical climate they are like weeds very easy to cultivate outdoors
Serissas aren't native to any place in the U.S., they're only native to Asia. The weather in southern states does emulate many parts of Asia. Hot and humid. Serissas can still be picky in the south, mostly to watering and location. They almost seem to 'talk to you' and will let you know when they're happy and when they're not. They may pout if moved and I'd suggest moving them back, they're picky about location. Watering is the key issue and overwatering seems to be more of an issue than underwatering.So cool. Plants are amazing how they have evolved!!! They are definately not a native species here in MD. One of my house trees that shouldn't be here, but I keep cause my wife (really the whole family) loves the flowers and it helps keeps my hands off the other 'want to be' bonsai's that I have. I wish I could afford to travel to all the native habitats of my bonsai to see them in the wilds
great info. My neighbor has a variegated. I keep asking for cuttings. One of my first bonsai's was a serissa, it was just starting to look gnaraly, when killed by a plant sitter....I lost 9 trees to that jerk.....Ah well...at least I had a couple of cutting in a jar that survived.Serissas aren't native to any place in the U.S., they're only native to Asia. The weather in southern states does emulate many parts of Asia. Hot and humid. Serissas can still be picky in the south, mostly to watering and location. They almost seem to 'talk to you' and will let you know when they're happy and when they're not. They may pout if moved and I'd suggest moving them back, they're picky about location. Watering is the key issue and overwatering seems to be more of an issue than underwatering.
I have two cultivars of the variegated and one of the non-vaviegated and they're surprisingly different. Very different leaf size and one of the variegated has a higher tolerance for under watering. I'd suggest getting a non-variegated cultivar and go from there. I have one type of variegated that literally shrunk. The leaf size seemed to reduce in size by almost half overnight. Very strange.
Love that mame tree.