Bulbs from South America 2013

[pehe]

Tecophilaea cyananocrocus cyanocrocus seedlings.

Poul

[fermi de Sousa]

Nice selection, Poul.
Will you be crossing them?
cheers
fermi

[Ezeiza]

T. cyanocrocus

[pehe]

Nice selection, Poul.
Will you be crossing them?
cheers
fermi

I like the variation too - and yes I have been out with my paint brush.

Poul

[pehe]

T. cyanocrocus

Yes of course!
Thank you for the correction. I have been spelling from memory and I am not that good in spelling Latin names, not to mention saying them....

Poul

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

IPHEION bulbs have surprisingly survived the 2011 / 2012 "polar" winter.
Here's IPHEION "Alberto Castillo"

[Mark Griffiths]

Nice plants all.

Here's a few of mine

I had to do a colour adjust on the violacea and it's still not quite right.

oh - it looks as if I am going to have to do these one by one - I'm having problems with file sizes

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

Here's IPHEION " Rolf Fiedler
JP

[Mark Griffiths]

ok, managed to sort out my file sizes, two more Tecophilaea

[Maggi Young]

Very nice Tecos......

[Mark Griffiths]

thanks. I get seed if I let them - but I've never been able to raise anything from them which is a bit of a puzzle. Poul, do you have any wisdom to pass on?

[Maggi Young]

Ian 'tickles' his Tecos- we have few pollinators around at flowering time. He uses a very narrow brush because the tubes are quite constricted -  sows the resultant seed deep in the pot  around August  time and gets good germination. Strange that you're not doing well with yours.

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

Hi Mark,
Such magnificent TECOPHILEAS... my "poor" pics of IPHEION really can't stand the comparison!
IPHEION "Jessie"
IPHEION " Froyle Mill"

[pehe]

thanks. I get seed if I let them - but I've never been able to raise anything from them which is a bit of a puzzle. Poul, do you have any wisdom to pass on?

Mark, I do exactly as Maggi writes, maybe sowing them a little earlier. My experience is that they germinates best when sown fresh. The ones I have got from the seed exchange in January had a very poor germination rate.
Another thing I have learnt is that it is advantageous to let them grow as long as possible by keeping them rather cold during spring. Too much heat send them in (too) early dormancy.

By the way - very nice pots you have. You have obvious no problems growing the adult ones!

Poul

[bulborum]

Here Bomarea caldasii flowers for the first time
previous years the flower-buds died because of the frost
they where to high in the poly-tunnel

Roland