Pleione 2015

[goofy]

hello friends,
Happy New Pleione Year   

I posted it already in the "Pleione 2014"
and did not realize, that it was the wrong topic

so, once again, this is my first Pleione flowering in 2015,

Pleione humilis


enjoy

[Sempervivum]

Fine flower! I think I read that this species is difficult to grow and therefore I didn't buy one yet. Can you confirm this?

[Maggi Young]

hello friends,
Happy New Pleione Year   

I posted it already in the "Pleione 2014"
and did not realize, that it was the wrong topic

so, once again, this is my first Pleione flowering in 2015,
enjoy

   Oh ! I didn't notice it was the wrong thread either, Dieter , sorry!

[goofy]

Fine flower! I think I read that this species is difficult to grow and therefore I didn't buy one yet. Can you confirm this?

difficult or easy...........
.....its not difficult for me, and I am a "beginner"


(just ask Mr. Röllich how to grow it best )

cheers

[Steve Garvie]

Fine flower! I think I read that this species is difficult to grow and therefore I didn't buy one yet. Can you confirm this?

It likes to grow cool. I grow mine outside in a shaded open-sided frame from late April (but watch out for late frosts).
I grow them in perforated pots in a mix of 80% living sphagnum: 20% orchid bark with a sprinkling of silica sand (helps re-wetting). I only water with rainwater or de-mineralised water & give a dilute feed every 4th watering (avoid fertiliser using urea or ammonia as the nitrogen source). I store dormant pseudobulbs in a cold unheated garage (tends to stay between 1-5C overwinter). It is important to keep them only barely moist at the start of new leaf growth as the new roots tend to rot easily if growing into a saturated growing medium.

All this makes them sound difficult .....but they are not and many other growers are successful with different regimes. The above regime also works well with forrestii, forrestii alba and albiflora.

[Sempervivum]

Hallo Steve, thank you for this detailed description!

[Johan K.]

Pleione 'Riah Shan'

[karel_t]

The first swallow of mine is also P. humilis. It is really easy to grow 
K.

[Nova]

so, once again, this is my first Pleione flowering in 2015,

Pleione humilis


enjoy

Nice fringed lip!
Mine is still a tiny bud, can't wait fot it to bloom 

[erf]

Here is my first sign of Pleione spring. Pleione Sirena, and a very clear white form. Must have inherited 90% of it's genes form Pleione humilis.

Regards Erling

[Maggi Young]

hello friends,
Happy New Pleione Year   

I posted it already in the "Pleione 2014"
and did not realize, that it was the wrong topic

so, once again, this is my first Pleione flowering in 2015,

Pleione humilis


enjoy

Dieter, many of your photos are not now visible  - when I try to access them direct by their link, thisis the message I get ;

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I hope that this will only be a temporary problem  and we will soon be able to enjoy your pictures again.

[Maren]

Hurrah, lovely picture of Pleione humilis. Such beautiful contrast, almost 3dimensional. Well done.

[Michal Mikita]

Pleione Eiger
Pleione Cosmos 'Shooting Stars'

[karel_t]

Pleione Cosmos 'Shooting Stars' is really odd-looking 
K.

[Alex]

I did wonder if someone would say that. I had some scopulorum with a similar if slightly less pronounced effect on the petals last year, threw them all out just in case...but I have read that temperature changes can cause something like this too. Does anyone have a strong view on the significance of this type of blotching?