It's growing roots....that's good. Next year it should have more leaves.
Linda C

I agree, it's growing roots. This will make for a more solid plant next year.

Diane

OK...............
Growing roots is Good, but then why do some hosta put on new leaves the first year and others don't.
Does it depend on how large the hosta is to start with?

K

Heck if I know. I divided up one hosta into a million little ones to line a path. Some sent up new leaves, others didn't. Maybe some of the starts had a better root system than the others...

I noticed that the ones that were in the process of flowering when I planted it (and I always cut off the flower stalk when I plant) won't have new growth. Others will within a week or couple of weeks. I don't know if this is always true but it's just something I've noticed.

Diane

OK Thanks everybody.
I will just be patient for next year - I guess.

K

why do some hosta put on new leaves the first year and others don't.

A lot of it is genetic. Sieboldiana types usually only send up one flush of leaves every year. I don't know, but would guess Eola Sapphire has sieboldiana in it...most big, puckered, blues do.

perhaps .. if potted [meaning hyperfertilized all summer] .. and forced early for sale in early spring.... they have already had their second flush .. long before you came along to buy them in august ....

when i get plants in late summer .. i hope for nothing more than living thru the winter..

the big show will be next year ....

you planted the crown at ground level, yes???

ken

I bought from Jim's Hosta - so I doubt that they were potted - and I received them bare rooted.

I planted the crown just below the surface - no more than 2" Wrong?

I don't think this applies to Jim's Hosta but if a hosta was grown over the winter it wants to go dormant, has already received the photoperiodic signals to go dormant and won't do anything except make roots until it gets the final signal; temperature.

Roots are in fact the only thing to worry about, if you have nice roots don't worry.

A plant gets all types of miss signals when they are transplanted.

Whoa, Lotsa, I think 2" deep is about 1.75" too deep.

You're flirting with crown rot.

I've had bad luck myself. I had a helper doing my planting this summer and I could not convince him he was planting too deeply. Slowly, I am going through the garden and lifting each plant.

Meanwhile, I noticed (or imagined) that the plants which were too deep had less leaf growth than I would have expected.