I was wondering if they can only have the flowers, or if they can have both the flowers, AND the leaves?

Used to feed hibiscus flower and leaf to my Bearded Dragons and my uro. Their favs were the red ones, lol.

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MARSHA
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reds and yellows tend to be there favorite. i put a pink hibiscus and he didnt even care to look at it. they also love the stamen part(the part from the middle of the flower with the little martian antanna looking things LOL) you also can feed the leaf and as allways make shure its pesticide free. i dont trust the people at home depot or lowes or any florist for some reason they all seem unshure if they ever had pesticide. they may not use it on there plants however the plants are shipped to them so who knows what was sprayed on it before it got to the store. i grow my own from small ones and I wait a year before feeding to my uro. lucky when I bought my condo and I am on a end unit that I have 20ft 10ft land area I can plant and there were allready 2 hibiscus when I moved in and havent ever been sprayed for pesticide as the condo association does not allow it.

All commercially available plants have been treated with pesticides as well as fungicides. Its just part of the maintainence procedures in commercial greenhouses. And many of them are systemic, meaning that the plant takes them up into the tissue. For plants grown for feeding purposes you need to remove the old soil and replace it with new. I would only feed the newer growth after a few months time.

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thats what I thought merlin. glad I got mine small and I did get new soil and waited till the new growth appeared. i forgot to mention that

the people at the lowes told me nope no pesticide and I even told him that I understood that they didnt use any at the store. however the greenhouse that grew it most likley did and he said no. however I still didnt believe him

He either was misinformed or he lied!
I have talked to people in the greenhouse industry (I used to grow bonsai trees), There are a horrendous amount of chemicals used there. With the numbers of plants grown crowded together in close proximity, prophylactic treatment is a necessity!

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weird I used to do bonsai also when I lived up north. here in Florida I cant grow junipers or many of the evergreens here. sucks!!! I was thinking about trying to grow a palm tree into a bonsai (that would sell like hot cakes up north). anyway going off the subject. Actually I dont think most of them lie I believe there deffinatly misinformed.

I used to get mine from local mennonites that grew them in their gardens. Perhaps looking for someone who does it as a second income would be a good alternative.

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Mike
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don't know about the rest of you guys but I know for sure that I don't have local mennonites in MY neighborhood.lol
i did look up where I could buy some seeds.

What? You don't have them down there yet? Must be too hot to wear black.lol

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