PLEIONES -2008 (New Forum section)

[Slug Killer]

Hi, the photo is deceptive, most of the leaves were very yellow not green. I often remove from the mix when yellow and the leaves will soon fall off. Once they are yellow there are going in to dormancy anyway and the roots will soon shrivel up.

I find the bulbs suck up all the nutrients of the leaves and I've had no ill effects doing this for many years now.

Dave

[Pete Clarke]

A little bonus colour from P. praecox leaves at present. Hopefully a bud will follow soon.

[DavMac]

The Pleione flowering season is progressing along with the Orchid Spring Show season. I was able to get to the Manawatu Orchid Society Show last weekend and photographed some of the Pleiones on display. My plants are a little behind these ones but I am told that they are doing well. At present they are being looked after as I had a "trip I will never forget" to the UK and Ireland in July/August. (Taking scenic photos can be hazardous to your health or at least your ankle )

Below are some Pleiones that a grower got from Blue Mountains Nurseries this year.

More photos will be in the next post.

David

[DavMac]

Manawatu Show continued

Jenny Mair is a member of the SRGC and has been growing Pleiones for many years. She put in several bowls into the Club display. Here are a few photos of her Pleiones.

David

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great show David ! 
Thanks a lot for sharing - we've got another 6 months to go before we can enjoy ours again... this helps to build the bridge.

[Hjalmar]

A bridge to New Zealand? Seems to me a tunnel would be much quicker.

[Slug Killer]

A bridge to New Zealand? Seems to me a tunnel would be much quicker.

 

Pleione praecox out today.

[Eric Locke]

 Pleione x Lagenaria "confirmation"
Lots of these beauties now coming into flower.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Real beauties !!! 

[Maggi Young]

Hello, Eric, great to have you posting! Thanks!

[Slug Killer]

Hi Eric, very nice Pleione. Not got these in my collection yet.

David

[johanneshoeller]

Wonderful Pleiones! My x laggenaria, praecox, saxicola and maculata are green, no flowers are seen. What are you doing so they will flower so early?

[Slug Killer]

Hi Hans

The simple answer is - I don't know? One of my praecox was in flower over a month ago and most of my saxicola are flowering or finished. No sign of anything with my maculata yet.

Can only put it down to a strange summer we have had in the UK.

[Paul Cumbleton]

These autumn flowering Pleiones really are beautiful, if a tad more difficult to grow than the Spring flowering ones. It would be worth pointing out that there has been a little confusion regarding names for some of these. Pleione x lagenaria is a wild, natural hybrid between P. maculata and P. praecox. This cross has also been made artificially, first registered by the late Jan berg from Holland. He named the artifically produced ones Pleione Confirmation. This helps us differentiate between the wild ones and the man-made ones. Any plants of this cross collected in the wild should be called Pleione x lagenaria, while all the ones that are man-made should be called Pleione Confirmation. It would be wrong to write for example "Pleione x lagenaria 'Confirmation'" because this suggests that "Confirmation" is a selected clone from a wild population, which is incorrect.

My own praecox and lagenarias are producing buds but none has yet opened.

[Eric Locke]

Hi Hans

"Confirmation" is very early this year and did not flower before mid-November last year !!. I have had these in flower in October , but not this early .   Confirmation clones do vary in the amount of pink colouration and I have included a picture of a near white clone that has just a flush of pink. I find these , in cultivation , on a par with Praecox and give a little early heat to get them started . This has been a very good year for them with several large bulbs having three flowering shoots.
Maculata should be in flower next week and Praecox not far behind.

Eric