My little Olive's first Hibiscus...

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Sorry about the messy water this was just before I changed her substrate over so I wasn't too worried it's sparkly clean now!! :)

Oooo Mom this flower is soo pretty just like me!!
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I'm almost done Mom,,
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Mom where'd you go?
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Lol! I love the third pic. Olive is a very good poser, thanks for sharing!
 

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Sooo cute, Oliver is a little cutie. I love the first pic, he is very photogenic :D
Thanks for sharing.
 

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In the first pic she looks like she is thinking "OK, I smiled like you asked. Can I PLEASE eat the flower now? Oh yeah, while I'm at it, will you put that camera away 'cause it's buggin' me".
Olive is a cutie, great pics.
 

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Great pictures, she is SO cute!!
Clementine that's too funny, it does look like she's thinking that!! I love the last picture too- what a goof ;)
Nelson apparently loves hibiscus (according to his breeder) but I can't find any around here!! My neighbors have a hibiscus plant in a pot on their driveway...considering stealing a flower... ;)
 

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ChiKat said:
My neighbors have a hibiscus plant in a pot on their driveway...considering stealing a flower... ;)

Make sure they don't use fertilizers/pesticides for it. Still waiting for mine (3 weeks now) to be ready for Thor to eat. Since I got it at Home depot, the pot it was in had fertilizers.
 

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lol, well mine totally blew off the hibiscus... (in a way I grew attached to that plant anyway lol)
 

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I love all the pix but 4th one reminds me of Penelope...that Olive is completely covered in hibiscus and going inside the flower. Sooooo cute.:D The difference is, Penelope doesn't go for any other colored hibiscus but red. You're lucky Olive likes the white one, too.

I love all the pix but 4th one reminds me of Penelope...that Olive is completely covered in hibiscus and going inside the flower. Sooooo cute.:D The difference is, Penelope doesn't go for any other colored hibiscus but red. You're lucky Olive likes the white one, too.
 

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I am so blown away that I have had my torts for YEARS and NEVER gave them all these things that are in my yard. A BIG huge thanks that I found this forum. You can read all you want,but sometimes things don't set in till you see them. I have had a hibiscus plant for years in my house and now, poor thing, can't hold a bloom for very long, I pluck them off and my Jack runs to them. I picked Rose of Sharon from our neighbor whose has a gigantic one, I am wondering if you can freeze them to save some. There are hundreds of flowers, they are white and red and my torts love them. ANd just today I went to our produce place and their outside decoration plants were losing so many flowers I just picked and picked them, people going in thought I was just de heading them. Only thing is they are purple and I wonder if my guys will even eat them.(But great point Rob about spraying them, I am calling tomorrow to see if they did anything, just because they are an organic market you just never know!) Thanks guys, for opening up some closed eyes!!
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I called my Home Depot to see if they watered them with miracle grow or anything and he said they used just straight water and he gave me a date for when they would have been fertilised most places use soil with ferts in it,, I think it's the little white round balls you find in the soil.

I don't think this will work for flowers but for the leaves if you have extreme winters like I do you can microwave them for about 20 seconds when you get it out it will be dry and crispy.. I havn't actually tryed to get Olive to eat one but I have a stash going of crispy ones ready for the winter.. I could always just crush them and sprinkle on her food.

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I am so blown away that I have had my torts for YEARS and NEVER gave them all these things that are in my yard. A BIG huge thanks that I found this forum. You can read all you want,but sometimes things don't set in till you see them. I have had a hibiscus plant for years in my house and now, poor thing, can't hold a bloom for very long, I pluck them off and my Jack runs to them. I picked Rose of Sharon from our neighbor whose has a gigantic one, I am wondering if you can freeze them to save some. There are hundreds of flowers, they are white and red and my torts love them. ANd just today I went to our produce place and their outside decoration plants were losing so many flowers I just picked and picked them, people going in thought I was just de heading them. Only thing is they are purple and I wonder if my guys will even eat them.(But great point Rob about spraying them, I am calling tomorrow to see if they did anything, just because they are an organic market you just never know!) Thanks guys, for opening up some closed eyes!!
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Yes we have winters here where I have to buy everything. Lots of snow!!
\Are you drying the leaves out Shelli?
 

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Yep... I don't know if they will still have nutrients when dry but hay does so I don't see why not but i'm not a leafollogist.. lol
 
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