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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Ray on January 29, 2010, 08:47:53 AM
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Haemanthus humilis var humilis flowering for me now,this was a gift from Pat and the label says the seed was from Silverhill and they were planted in Mar 05
so 5 years to flowering size.bye Ray
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Superb Ray !
Fantastic flower... good to be patient !
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Very beautiful and intense color! congratulations!
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Wow, Ray! That's a beauty - it looks like a Calostemma on steroids! ;D
cheers
fermi
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This picture we made in August in Wisley Gardens, it was really spectacular because they had not only one of this full flowering pots of H.coccineus, no, not two - there have been four nearly identic pots of H.coccineus full flowering. There was a possibility to sit down and have a look and I was really angry becaus I had no sleeping bag with me.
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This picture we made in August in Wisley Gardens, it was really spectacular because they had not only one of this full flowering pots of H.coccineus, no, not two - there have been four nearly identic pots of H.coccineus full flowering. There was a possibility to sit down and have a look and I was really angry becaus I had no sleeping bag with me.
Very nice way to present H. coccineus in flower! Thanks for sharing your beautiful picture, Renate. I attach a close-up picture of my H. deformis. I grow the bulb in a shady corner yet it seems to enjoy the shady enviornment so much.
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Beautifull pic Luar !
I love this plant.
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Lovely flower hope one day I will get mine to flower, till then I can enjoy all your plants thanks to the forum.
Angie :)
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Luar,
yes, indeed an good way to present it.
Your H.deformis picture is great and like Angie I still have to wait until mine will flower.
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Hi Renate + Luar
we have now 2010 :o
please send your postings in Haemanthus 2010 :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4905.0
Maggi ....please :-\
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Hi Renate + Luar
we have now 2010 :o
please send your postings in Haemanthus 2010 :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4905.0
Maggi ....please :-\
Oh, yes, sorry.... I have made the page for 2010 :D
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I can spare some H. albiflos if anyone wants (and doesn't mind the chewed leaves; one of my ducks wanted to see what they taste like). Also a couple of small bulbs of H. coccineus.
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Ray,
Fantastic pink flowers!! I've yet to see a pink flowered Haemanthus in person. That looks like it has a lot os good sized flowers in the head too. Thanks for the pic.
Thanks also to Renate and Luar. Beautiful!! 8)
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Hi to my suprise a member of the forum had some Haemanthus albiflos for sale at Dunblane early bulb show( sorry never got your name ) so my little collection is growing slowly. Cant wait till they flower and I can post them here, till then its nice to see other members plants flowering.
Angie :)
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Ray - great to see that H humilis var humilis flowering. I've had a flowering size bulb of var hirsuta for a few years but never had a flower and can't work out what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas anyone? I try to keep it in growth at the appropriate seasons and feed it well but no luck so far. Has nice hairy leaves which is some compensation. It does have an odd season of growth - typically it is in leaf from June until December (in the UK). I'm told this is normal.
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I also bought two pots of H. albiflos at Dunblane. They were almost beiing given away at closing time, and they looked so lonely I had to offer them a good home. I shall report back if they flourish as far as flowering.
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Hi Richard
Funny how these plants speak to us, I am sure mine were saying please take me home. Will look forward to hear how you get on with them.
Angie :)
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Would have liked to have spoken to you at Dunblane, Richard.... I wonder how many there were Forumists or Lurkers ?!!
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Maggie, you did bump into me by the Armand stand whilst walking backwards and talking to someone at the same time. (Why doesnt that surprise me?) You did have the good grace to apologise, but I didnt get the chance to say hello and the moment passed. I shall make a point of reciprocating at the next available opportunity !
Angie, Perhaps we should run a Haemanthus growing competition and see who can get them flowering first ....
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Oh, that was you? No broken toes, I hope? I expect I failed to recognise you without your hat and dark glasses. ;)
I think a haemanthus competition between yourself and Angie is certainly in order...... I saw the plants and thought.... "I bet Angie finds those pretty sharpish" She didn't let me down!
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I think a haemanthus competition between yourself and Angie is certainly in order...... I saw the plants and thought.... "I bet Angie finds those pretty sharpish" She didn't let me down!
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Maggi I didn't disappoint, yes Richard that would be fun 8). I love these plants. Maybe we can get some advice from some members.. when do we feed our bulbs and any tips to get them to flower.
Thanks again to the club member that took in these lovely pants for us.
Angie :)
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Thanks again to the club member that took in these lovely pants for us
:o :o :o
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Ray what a lovely Haemanthus. Didn't know about this one.
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I shall be interested in Gail's advice on cultivation of H. albiflos. I assume they grow well outdoors in Suffolk - if her ducks can get at them!
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I shall be interested in Gail's advice on cultivation of H. albiflos. I assume they grow well outdoors in Suffolk - if her ducks can get at them!
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No - they are not permanently outside. I usually treat H. albiflos as a house plant grown on the windowsill but sometimes I feel sorry for my South Africans and put them outside to get a bit of sun in the summer and that was when one fell prey to an inquisitive bill! A youngish bulb of albiflos that I forgot to bring in before the frosts is still alive but the leaves totally mushed so I wouldn't recommend outdoors here. I've tried most sp. of Haemanthus in my time (and killed most because of 'Old woman in a shoe syndrome' - I have so many plants 'I don't know what to do', things simply don't get the attention they need) H. albiflos is definitely the easiest and flowers regularly each year, thriving on neglect.
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Thanks again to the club member that took in these lovely pants for us
:o :o :o
Oops I better start using the spell check ::)
Gail I am the same as you to many plants, cant control myself there is always something else that I see. Lets hope Richard and I are successful and manage to get them to flower.
Angie :)
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Gail, my comment about living outdoors was slightly tongue-in-cheek given their natural habitat in S Africa. It will be a sunny windowsill for me !
Those that want to see some more pix (until Angie and I start posting our own - in a few years time) can find them here: http://www.bulbsociety.org/GALLERY_OF_THE_WORLDS_BULBS/GRAPHICS/Haemanthus/Haemanthus_albiflos/Haemanthus_albiflos2.html (http://www.bulbsociety.org/GALLERY_OF_THE_WORLDS_BULBS/GRAPHICS/Haemanthus/Haemanthus_albiflos/Haemanthus_albiflos2.html)
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Those that want to see some more pix (until Angie and I start posting our own - in a few years time) can find them here: http://www.bulbsociety.org/GALLERY_OF_THE_WORLDS_BULBS/GRAPHICS/Haemanthus/Haemanthus_albiflos/Haemanthus_albiflos2.html (http://www.bulbsociety.org/GALLERY_OF_THE_WORLDS_BULBS/GRAPHICS/Haemanthus/Haemanthus_albiflos/Haemanthus_albiflos2.html)
......not to mention the fifteen different threads with them in the Forum!
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Here is one I posted last September. Lots of seed on it now if anyone is interested.
Haemanthus albiflorus
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That is some potfull to aspire to. I ought to have known we could find the answers on this Forum.
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Michael,
how can you get this short leaves ?
Is it a special form or lot of light ?
I grow mines in shade and of course have long leaves, but I thought they didn't like bright light.????
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They might need shade in their native habitat but not this far north, it is more sun they need here. That one was grown in a unshaded greenhouse all last summer, I don't have room in my shaded house for it. I suppose it depends on how much sun you get,if you get lots of sun it probably would like a little shade,but we don't usually have that problem.
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Thank's Michael,
I'll try with more sun this year...
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Wow Michael amazing, cant wait till I get mine to flower, thanks for sharing
Angie :)
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Michael, in shade they develop those huge Rolling Stones tongue shaped leaves. To compensate. It is logic that with a lot of sun the leaves will have a smaller surface for photosynthesis.
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I suppose Haemanthus unifoliatus is meant to have a single leaf but my bulb, which I imported from a plant nursery in Japan almost 20 years ago, tends to produce two leaves. The bulb has never multiplied and flowered for me only for the first time last year. Besides, it does not grow very large in size.
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Superb Luar !!
One of my plants also always produces 2 leaves, but never flowered.
Congratulations !
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After looking at Luar's pic of Haemanthus deformis I think this is what I have.bye Ray
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Howdy All,
I'm going to post a few pics in different topic from the last few months of pics I have taken in my garden while I haven't been here on the forums. I'll try to stick to just the unusual things that fit in somewhere specific in the forum.
This one was a first flowering for me... Haemanthus albiflos x coccineus..... my first pink flowered Haemanthus. Very much like a pink albiflos in this case, but still quite lovely. I nearly lost this years ago to rot, but a tiny piece survived and eventually took off growing. I have no idea whether it will take after the albiflos side and offset, or the coccineus side and more likely not. ::)
Enjoy.
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Hello to all
I have two Haemanthus in flower, H. carneus and H. pauculifolius that it does not seem to be, someone could help me
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Both are lovely, Alessandro. Nice shades of pink.
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They are much lovelier and a better shape than some Haemanthus.
Did you grow from seed?
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Alessandro,
congratulations to flowering Haemanthus carneus, looks great.
Unfortunately I don´t know which Haemanthus the second one could be. I also don´t think that it is H.pauculifolius because it should be white and it should have leaves. I have some and they are evergreen, but no flowers till now.
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Thanks Renate
creed is other H. carneus, the flowers are equal and also the period of flower
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My Haemanthus Montanus is waking up today :) I saw the first sings of a leaf poking through :) No bloom tho :'(
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Here my Haemanthus crispus blooming. It is difficult to say it is that species without leaves, but believe me it is!
Alberto
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Hello forum,
this year im happy
:D
All my 3 Haemanthus spec. nova Lüderitz/Namibia are flowering now
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what make me perfectly happy:
my 2 Haemanthus namaquensis make 3 florescenses together, i hope i get seeds this year when i can cross-pollinate the 2 plants ( i think they are not genetical identic clones because the inflorescenses looks a bit different in colour).
Please keep your fingers crossed that it will work
8)
Good night
Bernie
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Bernie,
I think I am not the only one who crosses it´s fingers!
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Alberto,
What is the size of your Crispus? Mine is very small, about the size of my thumb but I was told it's bloom size, whether or not it blooms this fall or not the leaves themselves are amazing :)
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Josh, you are right, the flower is small! Has you ever got seeds?
Alberto
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Hello again,
today i made some pictures and have loaded them on my computer (some pics are from last week).
-Haemanthus "spec. nova Lüderitz (Namibia)" plant 1 (first 2 pictures)
-Haemanthus "spec. nova Lüderitz (Namibia)" plant 2
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-Haemanthus "spec. nova Lüderitz (Namibia)" plant 3 make some berries
-All 3 "Lüderitz" together
-And the last picture shows my smallest red Haemanthus, bought as coccineus but i think thats a small ssp. or so (Hans got one plant from me some years ago). Im happy that all 5 plants in the pot will flower this year
-a pot with "normal" coccineus
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-The first 3 pictures show Haemanthus namaquensis plant one (with 2 buds) one week ago and today
-H. namaquensis plant 2 (picture 4&5) also one week ago and today
-and both namaquensis together
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:)
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I hope you get lots of seed, your plants look very happy :D
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Alberto,
Mine hasn't bloomed yet, I'm hoping it does this fall... Has yours ever set seed? Is it a selfer?
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Hello again,
here are some pictures of the "small coccineus".
The flowers have a really nice colour
:D
Regards
Bernie
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It is very beautifull :D, I hope you get lots of seed and maybe can send me three seeds or even just one?
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Hello Peter,
i will do my best but i cant give any guaranty that the plant sets seeds, last year this plant have produced no seeds, hopt this year i get somet
Best wishes
Bernie
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Hello Peter,
i will do my best but i cant give any guaranty that the plant sets seeds, last year this plant have produced no seeds, hopt this year i get somet
Best wishes
Bernie
Thankyou very much Bernie
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I had no idea there there so many different Haemanthus. My education must be lacking ::)
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New pictures from today
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-coccineus with dark peduncle (this clone has broad leaves)
-coccineus with spotted peduncle (this clone has narrow leaves)
-group-photo
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-This year one namaquensis shows fasciation (first 2 pictures)
-peduncle of the other plant
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May i hope?
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What a show 8)...are you feeling a bit pleased with yourself.
Angie :)
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Wow Bernie, they are amazing. Thank you for posting.
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Now here are starting some Haemanthus from my collection with flowers ;D
the first is
Haemanthus pubescens ssp. pubescens
I was really surprised when opening the flower and I saw this white hairs ....never seen before on other Haemanthus flowers
8)
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The first one...and it's lovely 8).
Looking forward to seeing some more soon.
I have been out in my greenhouse this morning and all my Haemanthus are starting to grow, I don't expect flowers, I am just glad to have them, thanks to some really nice forum members I am on my way to having my own ;D ;D ;D
Angie :)
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Hello again,
today i made some new photos.
This is the coccineus with the spotted peduncle i showed some days ago, now its fully open
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Haemanthus unifoliatus (first time flowering "for me")
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Here is a other "small" coccineus from me :D
Haemanthus coccineus BK
8)
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Hans,
what is BK after the botanical name. Author, collector or collectionteam?
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Hans is it really as red as the picture shows. I have only seen pictures but hopefully one day I will be able to see for myself ;D
Angie :)
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@Onion:
that are the inital-letters of my Name
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@Angie (i answer for Hans because i know that the color is true):
yes Angie, the colour on the photo is identic with the colour real
:)
Best wishes
Bernie
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Thank you Bernie ;D
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Thank you Bernie, I hope one day I will be able to see for myself.
Angie :)
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Very pretty :)
My Montanus is heading into bloom
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/4983580833_418bb41335.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshy46013/4983580833/)
Haemanthus Montanus (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshy46013/4983580833/) by JoshY46013 (http://www.flickr.com/people/joshy46013/), on Flickr
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/4980391777_3760e74168.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshy46013/4980391777/)
Haemanthus Montanus (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshy46013/4980391777/) by JoshY46013 (http://www.flickr.com/people/joshy46013/), on Flickr
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Today i made new pictures:
-the peduncle of Haemanthus unifoliatus with some hairs
-now more unifoliatus-flowers are open
-2,5 years ago i have sown H. sanguineus, one plant shows nice broad red leave edges
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More pics of my Haemanthus montanus from today!
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/4993321389_a211437159_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshy46013/4993321389/)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4147/4993927122_e3f7546671_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshy46013/4993927122/)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/4993322595_09c85250ea_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshy46013/4993322595/)
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I have all merged all Haemanthus topics for the year 2010 to this one thread. ;)
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Many thanks Maggi - it is much easier ;D
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Here are new pics from today :
Haemanthus spec.
...this plant shows wonderful why this plants have received the name Haemanthus = red like blood :o
I have received this plant befroe some years from a friend without ID .....my idea was it is H.pubescens or a ssp. ....
When later came the leaves I will post a new pic
Hans 8)
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Fantastic colour Hans ::) :o :o :o
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here are pics from this Haemathus made in year 2008 :
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Good morning Hans,
congratulations to this jewel! Thats a gorgeous plant!
I also think thats a pubescens (but what ssp. ?)
Are there red margins on the underside of the leaves?
Have a nice day
Best wishes
Bernie
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Thank you Fred + Bernie ;D
Bernie : I'm glad that you agree with H.pubescens ....
A interesting point is that this plant has no hairs on the flower
I will look later for the margins of the leaves
...and shure I will pollinate ( selfing ) ;D
Kind regards
Hans
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Fascinating to see all these Haemanthus. That miniature coccineus (or whatever it is) looks quite fascinating. Very unusual arrangement to the flowers in the head. Did they all open in that split arrangement?
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Hi Hans
Just wanted to show you that I didn't kill off the seeds that you gave me. They are all starting to look like little plants.
Thanks Hans, I show them in a year or two when they have a flower ;D ::)
Angie :)
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:o Angie :o
very good - my compliment ;)
Hans
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Hans, I agree it looks like pubescens. The subspecies are apparently defined by provenance and "hairiness." With hairs on the adaxial ("upper") surface, it's ssp. pubescens, the only common form of this species (from Snijman, 1984). Besides, your pictures of the young leaves look like the new leaves on my bulbs of H. pubescnes ssp. pubescens, which came from Rod & Rachel Saunder's field outside Cape Town.
Jim Shields
central Indiana, USA
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Hi Jim ,
Thank you for your confirmation !
I'm glad that you have now also a member of this forum - welcome !!!
Hans
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This summer I had first blooms on a couple seedlings of Haemanthus lanceifolius. The flowers were white, the umbels pretty thin and a bit scraggly. These two probably bloomed a year before they should have. Next year I should have more seedlings of lanceifolius blooming, and maybe I'll get a better idea of what they are supposed to look like. Has anyone seen mature lanceifolius in bloom? I'd like to see a picture.
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I'm not sure I've seen a mature specimen, Jim.... there is this painting of the type.... http://ts-den.aluka.org/fsi/img/size2/alukaplant/nbg/phase_01/nbg0007/nbgart0003107.jpg
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Maggie, thanks very much! I can see that mine are really lanceifolius, with the pink bracts and nearly white flower.
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Maggi & Jim ,
this pic is from the Haemanthus bibel from D.Sneijman
Hans
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Thanks, Hans, it's this one, I think......Deirdre Snijman, "A Revision of the Genus Haemanthus L. (Amaryllidaceae)," National Botanic Gardens of South Africa, 1984. ISBN 0-620-07339-X ...... can't find a source for it online right now.
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Yes Maggi -you are right !
Luckily I have a good copy of this book ;D
Hans
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A question: Has anyone outside South Africa tried growing any species of Haemanthus outdoors in the ground? I assume this would work in Southern California, at least. Anyone there or elsewhere who has tried?
I'm interested in getting hardy forms of Haemanthus. Greg Pettit in the IBS list recommended H. montanus and maybe H. humilis. I'm much too cold here in Indiana (USA) to try this, but surely folks in less harsh climates have tried! Have any plants survived?
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Haemanthus albiflos can survive being left outside in both the west of Scotland and London, I have seen it in pots where it has been soaking wet and frozen solid to perhaps -5 C and continued to grow despite some leaf damage. I hve no experiance of other species out of doors
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A question: Has anyone outside South Africa tried growing any species of Haemanthus outdoors in the ground?
Hi Jim,
i know that Lauw de Jager (bulbargence) have Haemanthus coccineus outside in his nursery/garden near the sea ins South-France.
On his homepage i found some words about it:
"Our climate is distinctly Mediterranean with dry, hot summers and mild, humid winters. Occasional frosts are possible from the end of December till mid February (around -5 to -8 C (23-20 F). The geographical situation is just cold enough to grow "continental" bulbs (needing a cold period) and without causing permanent damage to South African winter growers."
photo from Lauws homepage
(http://www.bulbargence.com/m_catalogue/data/photo//bulbargence-33184-2-81.jpg)
Best wishes
Bernie
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I've summarized the comments on hardiness of Haemanthus from this forum and from the I.B.S. list in my blog at:
http://www.shieldsgardens.com/Blogs/Garden/index.html#nov28.10
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Jim, when I divide or pot on seedlings I shall try some montanus, albiflos, humilus, coccineus and pauciflorus for good measure next year in my green house, it has open sides, no heat and is frozen solid with a layer of snow just now. Massonias survived in there last winter.
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As I have a lot of H. albiflos, I'll try some of them outdoor in different places.
We have rainy and cold winter here ( -10°C ) sometimes...
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Wonderful! Thank you both, gentlemen.
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Jim,
Welcome to the forum!!
I grow Haemanthus coccineus outside in the ground here with no cover at all in full sun and frost etc, and have done now for maybe 10 years or so. I have always protected my H. albiflos but I have a friend who left hers out one year and forgot about it.... it came through fine. I've been meaning to plant some of mine out to try it as well. We get regular -5'C during winter, and usually a few at least a couple of degrees below that. I realise that in the greater scheme of things we're pretty mild.
I hope you enjoy the forum. 8)
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Yes, Paul, -5 C is pretty mild! We have 25°F (-4 C) this morning, with a little snow falling and on the ground, and our winter is just getting started.
A few members of the Pacific Bulb Society online list reported in on their Haemanthus. In Berkeley, California, they grow a great many species of Haemanthus in the ground at the U.C. botanic garden and have had no losses in the past several years. In North Carolina, two members reported success with Haemanthus montanus outdoor in the ground, for one year in one case and for several years in the other. However, the second report noted that no other species of Haemanthus had survived outdoors in the ground in that garden (USDA cold zone 7b).
Jim Shields
Westfield, Indiana, USA
USDA zone 5
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...and we had -16 degress celsius yesterday at 5am...no chance for outdoor-cultivation of Haemanthus here in Bavaria
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Fortunately, inside the greenhouse, it's a bit warmer. Haemanthus pauculifolius is in bloom.
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Hi Jim,
:D
very nice!
Your remember me with your photo to check my pauculifolius in the coldhouse, maybe one of my plants will flower also this year.
Paul Christian has sent me my ordered big bulb of Haemanthus nortieri today/yesterday. Hope it arrives ok here...im a bit worried about the cold temperatures and the expensive bulb in the box on the way to Germany
:-[
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Good luck with the Haemanthus nortieri. Graham Duncan has had one for about 20 years at Kirstenbosch and still has not had a bloom on it! I have a smallish one that I got in 2001, also from Paul Christian. It has not bloomed either, naturally.
Jim
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I also have 3 of them, 1 big and 2 small ones but never got a flower...
Wait and ... hope ::)
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Fred and Auri in Bayern,
I had a small disaster with H. nortieri a few years ago. I received a batch of seeds of nortieri, which I planted and grew under fluorescent lights for two years. When the young seedlings insisted on going dormant, I gave them summer rest, dry, under the lights. The first summer, I lost only a few; so I moved them to the haemanthus greenhouse for the winter. The next summer, they were stored with the other dormant Haemanthus -- seedlings as well as mature -- under the benches in that greenhouse.
Not a single nortieri seedling survived that summer! Note that these were 3 year old plants at that point. I was devastated. Of course, I didn't expect to live long enough to ever actually see any of them bloom, but I had hoped to at least be able to distribute some of them.
Jim
P.S. Greenhouse number 2 is the Haemanthus House.
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Jim ,
I had the same problem like you with my H.nortieri seedlings ...not only one has survived by changing the hemispheres :'(
No problem for other Haemanthus ( if they are big enough )
A other problem for me is H.tristis ...
I have sown it before two year- in the begin no problem ...but in last winter one after one is died :'(
Hans
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Jim
I to would be devastated. Three years of looking after these little babies and then to lose them. I would have been so mad. When you say you wouldn't expect to live long enough to see them flower how long do they take from seed to flower ?
Angie :)
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As long as we're telling sad tales, I must mention that when a friend in South Africa sent me 2 seeds of H. tristis, they arrived squashed. Neither germinated. I'd like to get a few seeds of HH. tristis, graniticus, even some more of nortieri. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who has any of these anymore.
I am looking forward to bloom of some seedlings of lanceifolius, probably next year. I hope to produce some seeds when they flower, if anyone is interested in trading.
By the way, my 10-year old bulb of nortieri has survived the summers quite well, so one probably just has to give the nortieri seedlings a few extra years of T.L.C. They can take at least 20 years from seed to flower, maybe even longer. At my age, 76, I'll be lucky if I ever see my present bulb of nortieri in bloom.
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Wow twenty years from seed to flower ... I shall be 74 by then so I better get my first attempt right with my seeds.
I suppose Jim its something to look forward to.
Maybe some of the members might have seeds to give you. I hope so because you have a lovely greenhouse to grow them in and keep them happy, good luck. Will keep watching to see all your Haemanthus in flower.
Angle :)
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Hello again,
i own a H. nortieri since 3 years, bought also from Paul Christian as flowering sized 2007. The plant is growing well but have not flowered for me.
I hope that this plant and my new (if it isnt dead after the mail-journey in this cold time...) flower in the next years and i could cross pollinate them.
But i fear i must wait manymany years and i wont have the luck that the 2 plants flower in the same year.
But first the big nortieri from P.C. must arrive here and it must build a new root-system.
Today i harvested some berries of albiflos x unifoliatus (keep fingers crossed that no albiflos-pollen had contact to the stigmas)
:)
Best wishes
Bernie
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Wow twenty years from seed to flower ... I shall be 74 by then so I better get my first attempt right with my seeds.
I suppose Jim its something to look forward to.
Maybe some of the members might have seeds to give you. I hope so because you have a lovely greenhouse to grow them in and keep them happy, good luck. Will keep watching to see all your Haemanthus in flower.
Angle :)
Save time buy a flowering size one(or two) for only £95 each !!
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Wow twenty years from seed to flower ... I shall be 74 by then so I better get my first attempt right
Angle :)
Save time buy a flowering size one(or two) for only £95 each !!
Money or time ::) ;D ;D
Angie :)
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Money or time ::) ;D ;D
Angie :)
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Angie , I'm afraid it will be Money AND Time ;D
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Money or time ::) ;D ;D
Angie :)
Angie , I'm afraid it will be Money AND Time ;D
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I fear you may be right. Better live a bit longer and start saving ;D
One thing with all this snow we have here I haven't been going out so saving money ;D ...more money for plants ;D ;D ;D
Angie :)
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;D ;D ;D
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Has anyone anywhere actually seen a plant of Haemanthus nortieri bloom in cultivation? I'd like to see a picture.....
Jim
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I've only seen this on the PBS website, Jim....
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/HaemanthusSpeciesThree
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Thanks, Maggi. I guess we should ask Jacob how he did that!
Jim
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...im very happy today
8)
here it is:
my new Haemanthus nortieri
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Congratulations! That is a very impressive bulb.
Jim
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Hi Jim,
yes thats really a "monster-bulb", for nortieri thats very big!
;D
Im so happy that the bulb suvived the cold weather in the little box an when i hold the nortieri in my hand im also happy that i have "changed" 200€ for the plant
:o
Best wishes
Bernie
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch Bernie !!!
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Bernie, if that nortieri eventually blooms, please send me a good picture of it for my blog and my web site!
Jim
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Really nice bulb, can't wait to see it flowering.
Nice to see you happy.
Angle :)
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@Jim:
i will send you a picture when it blooms (hopefully 2012 or so).
if you are interested, here in this thread are some pictures of my plants on this and the following sites:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4905.45
@Angie:
yes im really happy after one week worried about my bulb and the cold temperatures
:D
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Good morning,
here are some photos showing my experiments wiht colchicine:
Haemanthus humilis hirsutus "silky leaf"
on the left side the untreated plants & right the colchicin-treated plants.
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and here the differences in leaf-thickness, the colchicin-seedlings have "succulent" leaves
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and for Hans:
Haemanthus albiflos "Tidbury´s Toll"
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Your seedlings are very impressiv Bernie !
Thank you for the Tidbury pic - my plant look similar
Hans
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Hello again,
here are some photos i made today.
First 2 pictures show plants i have bought this year as "sanguineus Oudtshoorn"...im not sure what species they are but im sure thats not sanguineus.
The next 2 pictures show my "sanguineus Oudsthoorn" bought some years ago from the same source, here im sure thats sanguineus: unspotted leaves that lie flat on the ground and small red leave-margins
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here my 2 plants bought from Paul Christian as sanguineus
"very attractive and ornamental dwarf form with rounded leaves. Seed originally from coastal grasslands near Port Elizabeth. "
???
sanguineus?
...im not sure
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Haemanthus spec. Wegskraal (Breederiver top of hill)
maybe a local form of coccineus?
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Haemanthus crispus
Haemanthus nortieri (with sticky leaves)
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spec. Lüderitz (the grey spots are from the liquid-fertilizer i sprayed some days ago)
unifoliatus and the "backside" of the leave
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...and my coccineus with very narrow, long and canaliculate leaves and the flowers from september
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...and especially for Jim:
Haemanthus x clarkei backcross with coccineus
Haemanthus (albiflos x coccineus) x coccineus
and
Haemanthus humilis hirsutus x coccineus
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:o :o :o
Hans
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I'll be very interested to see what the blooms look like when your humilis hirsutus x coccineus bloom. I've never had sanguineus bloom; indeed, it barely survives here. I'm down to one sorry little seedling that is close to 10 years old and still tiny.
I have several different geographic accessions of coccineus: from Bainskloof, from Richtersveld, and from Gifberg, all from Silverhill Seeds; and one from around Bredasdorp, from the McMasters. Recently I received one bulb with seed head from a farm in the Bokkeveld Escarpement between Vanrhynsdorp and Nieuwoudtville. The Gifberg plants have longer, narrower leaves than the other accessions. The Bredasdorp plants have red margins on the leaves, which the others lack in comparison.
Bernie, your plants are very interesting. Keep up the good work.
Jim
in frigid (+6°F/-14 deg C) Westfield
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Bernie
congratulation to your new forum name ;D ;D ;D
much better than Auricular 8)
Hans
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Bernie,
Where did the canaliculate coccineus come from in the wild? Do the leaves look like that every year? I'd be interested in a few seeds from selfing that accession.
Jim
P.S. I agree with Hans about your new forum name. Good choice!
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Thank you Hans and Jim
:-*
That canaliculate coccineus i got 2 years ago from Lauw de Jager and it has every year this leaves.
I dont know from where hegot the seeds, i must ask him.
Sadly this clone has "instable leaves" and they bend down under their weight
:(
I sown some seeds from this plant in November but i forgot what "infructescence" ist selfed and the cross with namaquensis. If i can see whats the selfed seedlings i could send you some (or seeds next autumn)
Best wishes
Bernie
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Bernie some lovely plants there.
I like your Haemanthus spec. Wegskraal ,the leaves are so attractive.
Would like to see them all flowering.
Angle :)
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Hello forum,
here a photo that shows the fresh arrived 2 bulbs Haemanthus namaquensis some years ago (end of september 2007)
Im sorting my pictures on the computer since yesterday and it thought that picture could be interesting for some of you.
Have a nice sunday
Best wishes
Bernie
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...and here a big bulb coccineus (from eb*y)
and 3 nice bulbs from Lauw de Jager (bought this autumn)
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Here is a pic of my Haemanthus albiflorus taken a few weeks ago,it is setting seed now.
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Hello Michael,
:D
this is a very nice albiflos!
Here a picture with berries of Haemanthus spec. nova Lüderitz (bad quality from my mobile-phone)
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Fanatastic Haemanthus Bernie! :o :o
A few of my H. coccineus seedlings have spots on both sides of the leaves (more on the back) - as seaching in www I could not find any picture of H.c. leaves with spots on the upper side of the leaves I suppose this spots will disappear when plants become more mature?
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Bernie, these photos of the bulbs ... and those cute berries, are very interesting, thank you. 8)
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Thank you Maggi
:D
@Hans A.
if i remember right then my seedlings of coccineus have also spots on both sides.
Here a "little gem":
Haemanthus humilis "Southkloof" (photos from 2009)
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Brilliant to both of you 8)
Bernie love your Haemanthus berries
Michael fantastic amount of flowers on your Haemanthus. I was so happy just having one flower on mine.
Keep the pictures coming.
Angie :)
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Bernie, your H. humilis is .. :P ::) :o
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agreed! ::) :P ::)
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...and my coccineus with very narrow, long and canaliculate leaves and the flowers from september
today i got a message from Dee Snijman that she means that this "coccineus" with narrow leaves is a hybrid with crispus.
"The other plants really look like a hybrid, with one of the parents definitely Haemanthus crispus, the other probably being H. coccineus. You’ll see that the undersurface of the leaves has a faint thickened midrib, which together with the narrow width is characteristic of H. crispus. On occasion I have seen plants like this in the wild, where there have been mixed populations of H. crispus and H. coccineus."
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I don't grow Haemanthus myself but I like the plants and when visiting East Africa (Mount Meru, Tanzania) a couple of years ago I found this
Haemanthus/Scadoxus probably multiflorus, or what do you think? Unfortunately no berries!
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Hi Hoy ,
thank you for your nice habitat picture from Scadoxus multiflorus !
Hans
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A couple of comments: Bernie, it's good that you went straight to Dee Snijman on the narrow-leaf "coccineus." I've met Dee, and she is a nice lady as well as being very probably the best-informed person in the world on Haemanthus. I have a few hand-pollinated [coccineus x crispus] seedlings growing on here in the greenhouse, but they are still a couple of years too young to bloom.
Nice picture of the Scadoxus sp., presumably multiflorus, Hoy. I'm not at all informed about the tropical Scadoxus. As Dee's 1984 book points out, the thin-leafed petiolate plants are no longer considered Haemanthus but rather Scadoxus. Dee, Alan Meerow, and some other folks have looked at the DNA on these things. I have PDFs of a couple of Alan's publications posted in my web site. See the page at:
http://www.shieldsgardens.com/amaryllids/amaryllidaceae.html
Jim
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Jim, thank you for the link. I've looked at it with interest.
I was a bit disappointed when I found this bright red star in the dark tropical rainforest and there were no seeds! Had been a fine reminder of the trip to the east African mountains.
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My friend Cynthia went to the Plant Sale in Tassie in October and bought this Haemanthus humilis ssp hirsutus from Marcus Harvey as a "dry bulb".
I potted it up in a hurry before going on Holidays and it sat on the verandah, unwatered until we returned 3 weeks later and now it is in flower!
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Now how do I look after it!
cheers
fermi
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Very wierd
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Fermi, you just have to water and feed it now. I use water-soluble fertilizer with N-P-K ratios of 20-10-20 at 100 ppm nitrogen. That is 100 mg nitrogen per liter of water, or about 0.5 grams (ca 1/10 teaspoonful) of the dry, solid fertilizer per liter. I grow mine in full sun on our deck in summer, then leave them dry in the cool greenhouse with all the other Haemanthus in winter. It's easy.
Jim
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Thanks, Jim,
I'll find a space for it during the winter where it won't get soggy!
cheers
fermi
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- Michael J Campbell: great for your Haemanthus albiflorus! Looks so healthy!
- Haemanthus: impressive your coccineus. Also, didn´t expect Haemanthus berries to be so big! Unfortunately I haven´t been able to see any plant from this genus closely. The leaves of your wegskraal reminds me of a big Phalaenopsis. And what about your H. humilis... Wow! Congratulations for your plants!
- Fermiges: good luck with your H. humilis hirsutus!
- Michael J Shield: thank you for your link to amaryllidaceae! Interesting to notice Pancratium is closer to Sternbergia than to Vagaria... That´s what makes this forum so interesting: everyday I learn so many new things!
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I'm curious about Haemanthus pubescens arenicola. I got a bulb of that several years ago from Guy Wrinkle in Los Angeles. It has much wider leaves than pubescens pubescens. It bloomed for the first time this year, and looked much like coccineus. I pollinated it with coccineus pollen, and it set a bunch of seeds (which I discarded - got plenty of coccineus). Now, Bernie has me wondering if I might not have whatever Bernie has from Lüderitz, Namibia. Does anyone else have Haemanthus pubescens arenicola? What do other plants of it look like? Mine split, so I will have an offset for trading next summer.
Jim
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not the best one of the genus, Haemanthus deformis is flowering now.
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It looks wonderfull to me Fred, mine are still tiny and only 18 months old