cyps in pots 2013

[monocotman]

Hi,

first up is a general view of the pots on greenhouse staging on the north side of the greenhouse.
They are covered with some fairly thin green polypropylene shade cloth which is held up by plastic posts tied to the staging and stapled to the wooden greenhouse.
This is not quite strong enough shading so I've stapled some white frost fleece underneath the green.
This gives a slight shadow on the plants when the sun is strongest and seems to be about right.
The next two photos shows two large tibeticums from Holger Perner at Hengduan Mountains Biotech.
They were imported this winter and planted up in March so are only just establishing.
If they'd been smaller they would probably have aborted the flowers.
The flowers should improve as the plants establish but are already pretty good,

Regards,

David

[Corrado & Rina]

Hi David,

Your tibeticum are splendid, but how does it happen that they are already in flower?? Where are you?? The ones I bought from Laneside are just buds!

PS: How do you contact Holger Perner? I have been trying to contact him to buy some plants, but he does not seem to answer the email.

Best,

[monocotman]

They're either
1. still on 'china' time or more likely,
2. the process of importation from China has induced them into premature growth, maybe due to some higher than normal temperatures somewhere during the process.
My other tibeticums are like yours, just showing buds.
Next year will be a more useful test of their 'earliness'.
I'm on an email list from Hengduan.
They do seem to be very hot and miss at replying to their e mails.
They've issued a list in the autumn for the past two years.

Regards,

David

[fredg]

This little beauty gets better every year 

[Maren]

Hello Fred,

I am soooo envious of your C. plechtrochilum. Mine have simply disappeared. How do you grow yours?

[monocotman]

Fred,
Nice pectrochilum. Not one I've tried.
Best of the tibeticum flowers from Hengduan.
Seems to photograph well in full sun,
David

[Maren]

David,
fabulous C. tibeticum. And thanks for correcting my spelling of C. plectrochilum. It was that sticking key.

[monocotman]

Ha! thanks Maren. Getting old.
I guess that Holger had thousands of tibeticums from which to choose his parental lines!
The veining really makes the flower stand out.
When the plant reverts to UK time maybe I'll cross it with the nice large flowered clone that came from Peter Corkhill,
Regards,
David

[Corrado & Rina]

David, the picture in the sun is actually even better. Splendid clone, I really hope our tibeticum looks like it. Can you post a picture also of the other clone, the one from Peter Corkhill?

Fred, the Cypripedium plectrochilum is beautiful .... how difficult is it? In what regime and conditions you grow them?

[monocotman]

I've posted the tibeticum in past years.
Check the posts for cyps in pots 2012 or 2011.
The flower is a similar shape but darker and without the veining,
David

[Botanica]

Very nice picture of cyp Monocotman, you have many number of cyp in culture..big collection !!

C. plectrochilum  , i don't have in my collection of cyp ..i think i test that next year !

the new buds of 2013 cyp season (most of cyp.parviflorum and cyp.pubescens)





A other cyp formosanum flowering





other species could flowering in some days

[Jeff Hutchings]

Not wishing to upset anyone. NONE of my plants are from China. Holgers commercial offerings are too young for me this year and with the problems caused by the delay when he last came over I decided not to order. As the BOGA SUN rep I have been working with CITES Bristol trying to stop the importation of wild dug cypripediums from China.

My c tibeticum is from a continental breeder and most of my stock is at least three weeks behind because of the spring cold.

[fredg]

Hello Fred,

I am soooo envious of your C. plechtrochilum. Mine have simply disappeared. How do you grow yours?

I believe it's in 1:1 peat / perlite Maren. It just quietly sits under the staging in my bottom greenhouse.

[Maren]

Thanks, Fred, I'll try that.

[monocotman]

Hi,
a windy week has meant an anxious time and one or two bruised flowers.
First up is a macranthos from Phytesia.
Next is a white lipped fasciolatum from David at Koolplants.
I find this species slow to increase, just three flowers this year after starting to flower 5 years ago.
Last up is tibeticum 'light', another plant from Koolplants but much more vigorous.
What this exactly is, is unclear, but it keys out best to tibeticum and is not froshii.

On another note, I found a bumble bee on the lip on the nice tibeticum I posted last week.
It looked to be doing something so I shooed it off and found a neat hole left on the lip!
Anybody else found insects attacking their cyp flowers?

Regards,

David