Crocus January 2016

[Yann]

Yes it's a nice form, the bulbs were collected in the Ai-Petri Yayla mountains.
I also have another pot with one i bought you and it seems it's gonna be a red form, but it's still in buds.

The x paulinae was given in an exchange, but i guess it came from your nursery. So i'll rename the tag with your granddaughter's firstname. Last year it gave me few seeds but flower doesn't have so much pollen.

[Janis Ruksans]

Seeds from x paulinae??? With me no one , nor from two different wild collected, nor from 'Paula'.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

It was a gloomy day with a kind of  monsoon
Hopefully in the greenhouse it's spring

Crocus sieberi sublimis
Crocus tauricus

Brilliant form of tauricus, Yann !!

[Yann]

Janis, i saw a rotten pod when i moved the pot. I could save 7 seeds, but i think 3-4 were safe. Sown them this autumn.
Do you think my bulbs are not x paulinae?

[Janis Ruksans]

Janis, i saw a rotten pod when i moved the pot. I could save 7 seeds, but i think 3-4 were safe. Sown them this autumn.
Do you think my bulbs are not x paulinae?

They looks as C. x paulinae. although not so compact as here (most likely too little light), occasionaly even such usually sterile hybrids can give some seed, although it is rare occasion. My recommendation - saw seeds immediately and keep pot dry to normal watering time will come in autumn. You will get far better germination rate.

[Yann]

ok, keeping fringer crossed.