Fuchsia R.A.F

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Description: - Large double. Tube deep crimson red, medium length and thickness. Sepal’s crimson flushed with a deeper scarlet, short but fairly broad and reflexing back to the tube. Corolla rose pink with veining of scarlet cerise flushed and speckled opal pink slight red edging to each petal floret. Blooms hold their shape very well even in difficult climate conditions, very full and fluffy. Medium green foliage with serrated leaves. Very free flowering in all locations best grown as a basket plant, blooms tend to be rather heavy so will need support if grown as a flowering bench plant, self branching as wood gets older pinching needed in earlier stages of development. There are many Fuchsias of this type and colouring but R.A.F. has the slight edge through sheer elegance and all round appearance.

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~(:->)-I-< ~(:->)-I-< ~(:->)-I-< ~(:->)-I-< Fuchsia R.A.F. Flowering period; January rooted cutting; First stop; Week 17 Second stop; Week 23 February rooted cutting; First stop; Week 21 Second stop; Week 23 March rooted cutting; First stop; Week 23 Second stop; Week 25 Number of cuttings expected from one 8 month old stock plant rooted in JUNE, if all rooted material is kept for propagation until January of the following year :- 250 The art of growing fuchsia over the years has become slightly easier mainly because of the vast amount of knowledge available on the Internet. The fuchsia online knowledge has aided many a new fuchsia grower. Fuchsia care and help with fuchsia problems is just a click away. Before the online revolution happened the newbie fuchsia grower would have to go to there local fuchsia nursery or fuchsia society to ask about fuchsia care, they would usually be asked to bring fuchsia photo with them of their ailing fuchsia plants or fuchsia plant, they would be asked where the fuchsia is growing, is it in fuchsia garden or in fuchsia hanging baskets, it might be growing outside like a hardy fuchsia. Was the fuchsia plant grown from fuchsia seed or a fuchsia cuttings, all the pictures and fuchsia images of the ailing fuchsia that you show the fuchsia grower or fuchsia club member will not help to much, the best thing to do is post your fuchsia photos on a fuchsia blog and ask for the best care for a fuchsia or care of fuchsia that is available, you can mention that the fuchsia flower was grow from a fuchsia seed or from a fuchsia cutting which ever way of fuchsia propagation, you know the care for fuchsia advise will be very good. If going on line is not for you its always an option to search out more advise at the local fuchsia nursery, when you arrive, the fuchsia nursery will have many more fuchsias for sale, one can always buy extra fuchsia or buy fuchsias. The after care is usually very good, they will show you the best way of planting fuchsia how to grow fuchsia, whether the fuchsias are hardy fuchsias the color of the fuchsia flowers, the fuchsia might be fuchsia rose, they could be ideal for fuchsia standards if so you can enter the fuchsia standard in your local fuchsia show and win a fuchsia prize. The fuchsia plants that you purchase might be the American fuchsia or large California fuchsia which are known as trailing fuchsia, what ever you choose I guess that the fuchsias will be hot fuchsias because a hot fuchsia is just great. Take the fuchsia home keep it in good fuchsia soil make your own fuchsia fertilizer, mix the fuchsia fertilizer in water and label it fuchsia water and use it only on the new fuchsia plant. Fuchsia R.A.F. Rooting time :- Natural Daylight hours. Figures below are how many days from insertion to despatch. Without rooting tablets, Rooting with bottom heat temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit. January February March April May June
Open Mist 14 (days)14 13 11 10 9
Closed Mist 12 11 10 9 8 7
Open without Mist 21 21 20 18 16 15
Closed without Mist 19 18 16 14 12 11
The bottom figure Closed without Mist, can be a very difficult method of propagation in the early months of the year, mainly due to the threat of botrytis, adequate control measures should be taken to combat this fungal disease.

Rooting Fuchsia cuttings with the aid of artificial lighting.
All lighting must be of the highest recommended horticultural grade, and installed by a qualified E.E.C. approved electrician.
Never attempt to install any electric fittings in a damp environment yourself.
Cost of electric per season is 22p per sq. ft, (£ 2.36 per sq. metre)
Mist without covers :- Month Lights per day. Insert to root.
Thermostat setting December 16 hours 9 days
65 degrees Fahrenheit January 16 hours 10 days
February 16 hours 8 days
Until 10th March March 12 hours 7 days
After 10th March March 10 hours 6 days
April 8 hours 5 days
May 6 hours 4 days
All figures are based on the use of Rhyzapon tablets. Recommendations for Rhyzapon are: - 1 tablet per 1000 Fuchsia cuttings throughout the months December until late May, no artificial rooting agent is recommended from there on, this is due to natural hormone levels in plant tissues being very high.
If stock plants are kept, these to will require artificial lighting as well. Realised sales via mail order per season for this variety are:- 37,500 based on a yearly Fuchsia sales figure of 1 million.
I strongly advise that you keep no less than 500 stock plants of this variety, this will allow for 10 cuttings to be taken off each plant every 21 days, (this is an average figure).

Fuchsia Help, if you have a specific problem with your Fuchsia Plants or Cuttings please go to
http://growfuchsia.co.uk
and leave your enquiry in the guest book.
More Fuchsia’s here http://www.fuchsiagrowinghelp.blogspot.com/