Many of the hostas do put on a new flush of leaves. I was looking at my Red October yesterday, and he has doubled his number of leaves in just a couple of weeks. He actually looks fabulous and the slugs don't like him either. Perhaps I should post his photo.

I've also noticed a new flush on Grand Tiara, Revolution, Striptease, Orange Marmalade, Lakeside Looking Glass, Grand Slam and Sea Fire. Maybe there's more to come for all of us?

Lainey

Lainey

Many of mine are "re-flushing". Surely there is a better term for sending out a bunch of new leaves? Sounds like toilet humor.

Lainey, Red October was one of my still-in-original-pots ones that had a lot of half-eaten leaves - I cut 'em off a few weeks ago and it did look fuller to me today --

Not the same with Blue Angel --

It takes me forever to plant anything I buy because it always involves moving three other things to rearrange and make room... driveway full of hydrangea Blushing Bride, dendrathema, and heuchs...

Well, and popcorn, guac, feather boa, couple of perennial geraniums, and, and, & etc.

Looks like shovel time early tomorrow...

Barb

This reflush is related to the particular cultivar's bloom period. Unless there is some interference like the work I'm doing on moving from low light to high light.

Here is Red October, clearly showing the Reflush in the center. See, the new leaves have no holes in them. Damn slugs.

I don't know if I'd call it a reflush. Many hostas keep putting up leaves, one at a time per eye. But not every eye puts up new leaves.

Thanks for the info - I'll start watching carefully....

The only 1 I have that keeps sending up new leaves is Little Miss Magic,who is in a pot. The rest of them just maintain the leaves they have right now,until Autumn. Phil

I have many that send up a continual stream of new leaves, including the much criticized Great Expectations.

I always thought that when you cut off all of a Hosta's leaves, the new growth that appears is known as a reflush. I figure that the new leaves that you get on a Hosta during the growing season is just new growth that all growing plants produce. Now I'm really confused. Mary

I would agree with you, Mary. Hostas keep growing leaves well into the season. I just walked around my yard and more than 90 percent of the hostas are sending up new leaves. So I'd say there is no such thing as a July reflush.

I bought a new Guacamole in late summer last year, and our golden retriever pup played with the pot and ate all the leaves down to the nubs. About three weeks later, you couldn't tell there had been any damage. A full set of leaves.

That's the "dog ate my hosta'' reflush. It doesn't always occur in July.

Esther Opal is correct. It depends on the cultivar or species and bloom time whether the plant will flush new leaves, and the ones that have more than one flush are the Hostas we typically consider to be fast growing.

I have posted this before, but to have a better understanding of the whole thing, there's a paper written by Robert Solberg called Hosta Physiology that explains it very well, and it's an easy read.

Hostarox,
Where can I find a copy of that paper? I would like to read it, because for me the second flush is not related to flowering at all. Virtually all of mine are "flushing" now, regardless of bloom cycle. Even my Tokudama-types, which are considered slow growing, are doing this.
Dave

Let's take a single seed I planted in March. It grew a leaf after a short time. Then a second leaf. And a third. And a fourth. And it kept on growing a leaf at a time until I eventually planted it outside in my seedling bed.

Four months later -- and it's not July -- it is still growing a leaf at a time.

Where would you say the flush ended and the reflush began?

Those are meaningless terms and bear no relation to the real world.

Dave, just google "Hosta Physiology" by Robert Solberg. It was written in 1996.

"Where would you say the flush ended and the reflush began?"

I don't care for the term which may be a misnomer but it does seem to fit what happens when a plant has gone down hill as my plants in low to high light did then put out new eyes.

If a hosta is growing then starts to make new leaves it can't be "reflush" it is just continuing to grow.

I'm only splitting hairs for the sake of discussion, in the end it doesn't matter if you know the different processes.

So, like, shall we just say they grow new leaves, some continuously, some in spurts?

Whatever the case, love the new leaves! A new Liberty still in nursery pot has quite a cluster of new leaves.

Love 'em.

Thanks, Hostarox for the pointer to Solberg's article - looks as if all are correct - flushing happens differently depending on type. See link to article below......

Here is a link that might be useful: Solberg article