Haemanthus 2012

[angie]

Hans that fantastic  , can't wait till the day I have loads of flowers on my H. albiflos like you have.

Angie 

[mark smyth]

You people have some very desirable plants

[brianw]

I have 2 different clones of albiflos. One that is apparently indestructable and is very easy to grow and flower. Looks very much like the photo above. The other flowers later and has wider leaves, twice the length. Unfortunately they both flower around the same time as I cram my frost free greenhouse with a lot of other plants for the winter, and the humidity goes sky high, and the flowers end up covered in fungus as they go over. Never had seed form fully, just too damp to stay healthy.
By chance I kept a stray small bulb of one of these forms over last winter in the unheated greenhouse, just by the door so will have been frosted several times. Came through fine with no damage, so maybe they are tougher than I thought.

[Hans J]

if anybody is interestet to swap with me seeds of Haemanthus coccineus please look here :

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9716.0

Hans

[jshields]

Haemanthus albiflos are now finished up for the year, but one seedling bulb of Haemanthus deformis is now in bloom.  The seeds were planted in May, 2008, so this one is 4.5 years old.



Also starting to bloom just now are the Haemanthus pauculifolius.



This one originated in Vryheid, as the tag notes.

Jim

[Angelo Porcelli]

Jim you should change that pot of H. deformis, otherwise the leaves will be deformed.
Try to get a kind of Italian terracotta handmade oval pot designed for Haemanthus 


Back to Haemanthus hybrids, with my great surprise one of my albiflos x coccinues has set 8 seeds pollinated with coccineus pollen !
None of the others did, nor a sanguineus pollinated with that hybrid pollen too. So I wish I am going to the right way to achieve a 'red' albiflos 

Forgot to add the seeds are purple, quite curious thinking that the plants come from albiflos as mother plant.