PLEIONES -2008 (New Forum section)

[David Nicholson]

I'm intrigued by the name 'rakata locking stumps' can anyone tell me how it came about please?

[Paul T]

Loving the pictures everyone.

Ivo,

That "Can Shan" looks like it sits on tall stems as well?  I love the way the flowers sit up and look at you, unlike so many of the flowers which almost droop and on short stems (which have their own charm, but in some ways less impact). 

[jack]

Hi Paul,

Yes, this one has such long stems. This is an heir of yunnanensis.

Best wishes

Ivo

[Paul T]

Ivo,

So how tall actually are they?  Never seen a "tall" Pleione before.

[Slug Killer]

Nice forrestii Rob. The red spots are nothing to worry about and sometimes happen, next year they will probably have gone again. You've done well getting it to flower this late as they would normally abort by now.

Fuego
 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Some great plants again !  Nice potfuls too ! Thanks all !

Rob I wouldn't be too strict there and sit it out.  As Paul Cumbleton pointed out much earlier in the thread - he's quite sceptic on virus on Pleione.  Maybe you can keep it a bit away from the others, as you, I would hate to destroy it.

Here's two from me :

1) Pleione x barbarae
2) Pleione asama

[Simon Elcomb]

Rob - I am worried that you are annoyed with me as I sent you some Muriel Turner (I think)! Mine have grown and flowered well this year and some have shown the mottling you mention but others in the same pot do not. I have grown these for several years and cannot say with any certainty that they if this has always been the case (I some how feel it is.) None of the other pleiones that I grow show the same mottling and if it were a virus I would have thought they would have shown the same symptoms as well by now.
I am struggling to get pictures small enough to post! - I'll have to work on it.
(pic size edited by Maggi)

 Pl.  Marion Johnson
 Pl. Muriel Turner

[David Nicholson]

I'm intrigued by the name 'rakata locking stumps' can anyone tell me how it came about please?

Look, I can't sleep properly, can anyone give me help?

[mark smyth]

Simon all you need to do is reduce the pixel width down to between 650 and 800 pixels wide. Those of us with small screens cant view images that are 2000 pixels wide without using the bottom scroll bar

[Simon Elcomb]

Thanks Rob and thanks for the photo tip Mark - have got carried away and posted some more - the forestii is really happy in the hanging moss ball (an experiment) and the shot silk is drooping as it cannot support 3 (yes three!) flowers.

[Slug Killer]

Don't know this ones name?



Dave

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great show Simon - verry happy and healthy looking plants.
Good idea to put the forrestii in a "hanging basket" - that sure gives them the oxigen at the roots that they seem to enjoy so much.  I'll definitely try it next season.  How often have you already watered them ??

David, let me put you (partly) out of your misery 

Rakata is a 1982 hybrid from Ian Butterfield.  He named (and names) all his hybrids after a volcano.
Rakata is a remnant of the famous Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia that was virtually destroyed in the eruption (explosion) of 1883.  As to the "Locking Stumps" part - sorry - I have no clue - but I bet somebody else will have...

[Pete Clarke]

I'm intrigued by the name 'rakata locking stumps' can anyone tell me how it came about please?

Look, I can't sleep properly, can anyone give me help?

Rainer Kretz named this clone when he used to live at Locking Stumps - ? a village near warrington. He also used to offer Hekla "Locking Stumps." (I am going by an old address.)

[David Nicholson]

I'm intrigued by the name 'rakata locking stumps' can anyone tell me how it came about please?

Look, I can't sleep properly, can anyone give me help?

Rainer Kretz named this clone when he used to live at Locking Stumps - ? a village near warrington. He also used to offer Hekla "Locking Stumps." (I am going by an old address.)

Many thanks to Luc and also to Pete (welcome to the Forum) on his first post. Little did I think, when raising this issue, that there would be a connection between Krakatoa and a small village near Warrington! On reflection though, having visited Warrington some years ago, it was not difficult to believe that it had been hit, and very recently, by a pyroclastic flow Sincere appols to any Forum members from Warrington!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]