Tolumnia are twig epiphytes and you must be on track because the plant is still alive after several years. The essentials are free draining mix, underpotted (small pot) or grown on a mount. I have 350/400 of the little beauties and peak flowering time here is late spring....The problem is I do not really know what is the trigger that initiates spike formation. Also your plant is probably a seedling (raised from seed) so there is no guarantee that it will be free blooming. Perhaps your plant has KOK35 attached to the name? In any case I wouldn't be in a hurry to divide or repot or put it on a slab, because those actions might increase the time wait for a bloom. Hopefully someone growing the little babies indoors will add to this. Apart from the free-draining bit they need light but not direct sunlight here at Latitude 33 South. Sunlight filtered by shade-cloth and dirty glass in summer. Cleaner glass in winter. Gentle air movement is provided by a fan running 24/7. Temps. Not sure what the optimum range is. Here is a pic. of a small part of the collection. As i said above you need advice from an indoors grower. Here is a link that might be useful: Tolumnia collection This post was edited by arthurm on Fri, Apr 4, 14 at 5:24

I would defintely aim to keep it as a smaller tree/shrub. We're in a totally different zone than you so ours probably grows a bit slower than they do for you. But we do not let them get out of reach of the long-arm pruners. The Chinese one we grow as a sort of large shrubby tree. It had got to be about 10' tall and was getting hard to reach the top. We cut about 12-18" off the top this spring. Any new whippy growth gets cut back to within the framework of the size we want to keep. Pruning those growths back is a weekly chore through the growing season. As is removing root suckers to keep the tree to one main trunk. The Japanese wisteria we also keep short and that one we keep all the branching to the top, removing all growth on the bottom 3-4'. The flower racemes on the JW are long so look best when dangling straight down; the CW flower racemes are shorter so a shrubby shape with branches lower to the ground displays the flowers well. So, if I were you, I'd hack off and dispose of - the vast majority of what came down, keeping only 8-9' at the base and keep it pruned to a shape and size you can manage.

Yes I do understand all that you are saying. I cant say anyting that he does not make a nasty comment on it or holler at me. When we have to go somewhere and he has to get dressed in good clothes. Now all the clothes he has now I have purchased or my son got them for him. He starts complaining about how they fit they do not fit him right , I wish you wouldnt buy me clothes, you do not know how to buy them, these are a piece of crap, I do not need a woman dressing me. We went out the other night to a black tie afair for my company, I went to straighten his hanky, he said get off of me I do not need you dressing me. Now I sell men's clothes for a living. I have to dress men all day and I must say I have no complaints of my choices from them. I have gotten to the point that I just do not talk to him. I do nto make comment on anything.Everyting becomes an argument. He hugs me and says I love you, I want to say, you have no idea what love is. I refuse to buy him anything. Everyting someone buys him he complains about. Even on xmas morning. I told him he was a spoiled brat and was ungratefull. He said well you were raised in poverty and it shows. I think he meant from my being cheap. But I tell him look around at where you are living now. When we met you were in an apartment with used furniture from your parents, an old beat up car at the age of 46. He blamed it on his paying child support. Wrong, he made enough to cover that and have something. But he choose not to.Now after he married me, he moved into my house,which he is helping to fix up,after saying what a piece of crap I bought but at least I had something .He has a new truck,we bought a cruising bike for him this summer, a nice yard that I do the work in, we bought new living room furniture. I am the one that has the old truck, that needs work.Our bedroom furniture is what he bought with his ex fiance many years ago. HIs own mother says I am the best thing that ever happened to him, so does his kids. BUt he makes me feel like I am not and that I am stupid. I have been hollered at for ever move I make. Now i am afraid to make choices on things thinking I will make a mistake and he will not like it. Even thought before we met I made choices and did things in my home. If he had showed me this side of him before we married I would never had married him.It will be 4 years in march. And I regret doing it now. I was happier when I was single and my boys lived here. We laughed and had fun. Even if it was raking leaves. Fun is not what I know now. Now all I know is complaining. I wish you were close to me, I do not have friends here, all I know are who I met thoguh him and the girls I work with.I have told them alot and cried on their shoulders. You would have been proud of them the other night when they talked to DH. They were good actors...lol. I just stood their and looked at them, thinking what are you saing...lol. But DH was happy, he was impressed that I said such good things about him....lol. Thanks, I need to vent on these things. I just want to be Happy again.

lisa you might want to get some additional quotes on the Rinnai's - that price seems a bit high. I have a dual tankless Rinnai system. I don't know the exact price I paid just that the delta cost was an additional $1200 above what a large single propane water tank option would have cost. ANd there is a tax credit if you put one in - I think we got $250 but the tax credits have gotten better. The key point on the tankless decision for a family is that you won't run out of hot water (unless you forget to fill the propane tank up) which if you read on the forums is quite common with families. Kids seem to always drain the tanks and the recovery time is hours. With tankless you can run them until you run out of propane. We put in the tankless units mainly because it is just my wife and I and we don't need a lot of water unless we have guests. The delta upgrade cost was relatively low and we got a tax credit - so it seemed to make sense. The way ours works is that only one takless unit fires up if the demand is below 4.5 gallons per minute. ABove that - which is rare - the second unit fires up. I really like that feature. The one thing you must understand about tankless is that the way you use the system will have a great impact on the cost to operate it. Everytime you turn on the hot water tap - the gas units fire up. There is a realtively short time for the tanless units to get the water hot and then you have to wait for the hot water to push cold (or warm) water out of the hot water line pipe unitl the hot water reaches the tap. So you really don't want to short cycle the tankless system by turning hot water on/off rapidly. I think you must consider the placement of these units very carefully to make sure you don't have to run the taps for minutes to get hot water out. But that is one advantage of the tankless units - you could put multiple units close to the point of use. Tanked system have the same issue with water delays but you won't short cycle them is you turn the tap on and off - and you don't have the same flexibility for locating the tank as toy do with the tankless. I found the need to install a small hot water recirculating system to service our kitchen, utility room, and butler pantry sinks because the Rinnai's are located 88 feet away from these sinks and that was taking 5 minutes to get hot water at those taps. We placed the Rinnai units in the basement directly below the master suite so we get near instant hot water at those taps. We could not locate Rinnai's on the other end of the house due to venting restrictions which is also something you will need to work out. I would have prefered to have 1 Rinnai service the master suite, 1 Rinnai service the kitchen/UR/BP sinks , and 1 Rinnai to service the second floor guest bedrooms. That would have been the ideal solution for us but we could not do it that way. We live in a rural area too and so there is an extra benefit for either a gas tankless - or gas tank - and that is you can easily backup the hot water system with a reasonably sized generator. If you can't do better on the price of the Rinnai's, I suggest going for a propane tank system and spend the money on a backup generator which will come in handy in the sticks. The dual fuel option on the heat pump is a great idea. I have Geothermal heat - so when we lose power I lose heat. Our Auxiliary heat is electric - the dual fuel option wasn't presented to us as an option. Our solution was to install really good wood burning & gas fireplace inserts that are rated as heaters (we have 3 on the main floor - 1 wood, 2 gas). These units need a little electricity to run the fans and controls - and I have those on my backup generator. If I could do it all over again I would have gone dual fuel on the GT system with propane as the Auxiliary source. I have seen lots of calculations for and against tankless. In the end maybe they save us a little money but that wasn't the reason we selected them. I can't stress enough to think out the entire hot water flow thing before you plumb. It is very easy to calculate for a given diameter and length of hot water feeder pipe how many gallon sof water are in the pipe. Then realize that a tap on full might run at 1.5 gallons per minute and then you can figure out the delays. It was a huge issue for use which I had to fix after the fact just before we moved in because DW hated waiting for hot water. Good luck with your build.