Very nice shot...roxanne

Wow, how exciting. Congrats to you.

Hopefully I'll have something to show in two years also LOL.

Hi Jen! Congratulations on your first blooms. It is such a rewarding and exciting experience! Just be careful! I remember being in your shoes and saying that I was also "hooked". 5 years later, and now I have well over 100-150 trees! I live in western NY, so I can't grow mine outdoors year round either. To add to my problem, I live in an apartment, and I don't have a greenhouse either. Thankfully I have space in my apartment, plus a good sized basement that I can store my trees in over the long and cold winter!

Again, Congratulations!

Andrew

Jen,

Congratulations. Very beautiful flower. My second summer without a bloom and I'm hoping for better luck next year. Great job.

Yeah, Jen!! Congratulations!! Wooooohooooo!!!

Thanks everyone for your kind words! I've had five blooms open since Thursday and a few have fallen off already too. I wasn't expecting them to fall off after only a couple of days but maybe it's the time of year. Or it doesn't like being moved in and out everyday. Either way, I'm enjoying it immensely and can't wait for spring to see what happens next!

Wow Andrew, 100+ trees! That is amazing.

Nice work. Its a tough job to grow it in a cool and wet climate like you have. I would say its just par for the course for the flowers to drop off under those conditions. Best advice is to pick them and enjoy before they fall off.