{"id":1844,"date":"2014-04-29T08:53:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2014-04-26T02:22:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T09:22:16","slug":"million-bells-competition-to-grow-calibrachoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/million-bells-competition-to-grow-calibrachoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Million Bells Competition to Grow Calibrachoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1845\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/million-bells-competition-to-grow-calibrachoa\/attachment\/million-bells\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1845\" title=\"million-bells\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/million-bells.jpg\" alt=\"million-bells\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/million-bells.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/million-bells-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each year I buy some <strong>little pots of Million Bells<\/strong> or Surfina petunias for less than a \u00c2\u00a31 each and try to <strong>get as many plants and flowers<\/strong> from the one plant as I can. See how many plants from cuttings you can get. Then let us know how many flowers you achieve.<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/7441403304\/in\/photolist-7S9cN8-cnSZB3-agJAgR-8h7utQ-87qseh-ckz8WY-8h7urd-cnSYFw-73gKXh-719UzT-cNpXDo-cNpZ35-cNpYmL-cNpZF7-7S93wZ\/player\/\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Million Bells Tips and Information<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Bred and registered by Suntory, the faux whiskey people, Million Bells (not Bells Whiskey) are varieties of Calibrachoa and resemble mini petunias.<\/li>\n<li>The plant label on my specimen calls the colour Cherry and the variety Sunbelchipi. Other varieties can be seen on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntorycollection.info\/varieties_million.html#\">web site<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I have cleaned up some rotting foliage at the front of the plant and increased the pot size to give room for root growth. It is roots I want at this stage before I start taking cuttings.<\/li>\n<li>Bushy growth comes from pinching out and I find the &#8216;pinch&#8217; can usually be rooted to form a new plant. I will be disappointed not to get a dozen decent plants before I plant them out when the last frost has gone. A good pay back for some TLC during early spring.<\/li>\n<li>During summer regular feeding and watering in very dry conditions will help you get Millions of Bell shaped flowers but if it is only thousands don&#8217;t blame me.<\/li>\n<li>You do not need to dead head Million Bells they should be &#8216;self cleaning&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Because the plants are registered and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpvo.europa.eu\/main\/en\">PBR<\/a> exist you can&#8217;t sell your cuttings but you can grow them for your own purposes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sorry the <strong>prize for the winner<\/strong> in October will not be a bottle of whiskey but the consolation of a job well done and the admiration of readers on this site.<br \/>\nps last year I had a very poor result and will leave my plants to grow on without taking their strength by too many cuttings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year I buy some little pots of Million Bells or Surfina petunias for less than a \u00c2\u00a31 each and try to get as many plants and flowers from the one plant as I can. See how many plants from cuttings you can get. Then let us know how many flowers you achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[122,114,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","tag-competition","tag-cuttings","tag-pbr","tag-petunia","tag-surfina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}