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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #240 on: August 05, 2009, 01:57:43 PM »
hello Jupiter and welcome. You'll find a few more Australians living here. You're T. pentaphyllum is very nice
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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #241 on: August 05, 2009, 02:20:43 PM »
They're ALL very nice - and fabulous pictures of yours too!

My T. pentaphyllum does very well as well, climbing to two metres or so and flowering profusely - it even sets the occasional seed...  8)
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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #242 on: August 05, 2009, 02:45:32 PM »
Hi, Jupiter! Welcome to the Forum. Your pix are lovely..... we prefer that pix are posted directly  to the site , as you have done,  rather than linking to another photo host, so you are doing just fine!!  8)

great colours the Trops have, huh? plus the flower shapes.... what's not to like ??!  :D
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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #243 on: August 05, 2009, 03:33:40 PM »
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T_tricolor.jpg
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 T_azureum.jpg
 T_peregrinum.jpg

Pix are fantastic Jupiter - looking forward to more, T_pentaphyllum is so unusual and T_azureum a glorious colour - pity I can't grow them in the alps!
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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #244 on: August 05, 2009, 05:59:23 PM »
I could get hooked on this family.
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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #245 on: August 05, 2009, 06:25:04 PM »
Welcome to the forum Jupiter, your plants are super, looks as though you are going to have a good collection :)
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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #246 on: August 05, 2009, 09:51:14 PM »
A really beautiful plant of T. azureum, good deep colour. Good fortune with the others still to germinate (though ciliatum is a beastly weed with me, while speciosum won't grow at all :'()
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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #247 on: August 05, 2009, 11:08:47 PM »
Hello Jupiter,
Very nice pics indeed!
I suppose you're patient enough for The tropaeolum seeds you're trying might take more than 1 year to germinate ( but it could be quicker ). You'll find plenty of informations & tips in this fantastic forum.
We look forward to seeing more of your plants
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« Reply #248 on: August 06, 2009, 11:27:37 AM »
Thanks everyone for the kind welcome; I'm looking forward to learning lots here.

Jean-Patrick, that's actually music to my ears. It's always an anxious wait germinating these things - I only planted them 3 months ago.

Rogan - sad story about my T.pentaphyllum this year. We've just moved house and I had it in a very large pot at the base of an arbour in the garden at the old house. It grew magnificently up to the time when we had to move. I was forced to hack it off the arbour, retaining as much foliage as possible and transport it here. It has taken a bit of a beating but is recovering and hopefully will flower okay this season.

My azureum is only in its second season. Seed germinated in May08 after a couple of months in the refrigerator, flowered the same year in September. By December the plants had completely died back to the soil and I carefully dug up these tubers.

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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #249 on: August 06, 2009, 03:43:03 PM »
By Jove ( ;D) those are beautiful tubers! Red tubers - blue flowers, what a plant!
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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #250 on: August 06, 2009, 05:13:21 PM »
Quote from: Rogan on August 06, 2009, 03:43:03 PM
By Jove ( ;D) those are beautiful tubers! Red tubers - blue flowers, what a plant!

Time for some translucent pots, I'd say.

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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #251 on: August 12, 2009, 07:28:52 AM »
Jupiter,

Welcome to the forum.  Excellent to have yet another Aussie here.  Beautiful display of the Tropaeolum you have there.  I grow the tricolor and brachyceras myself, as well as just having received seed from azureum.  I love your pentaphyllum, but the peregrinum is stunning!  The feathery petals are just amazing.  Well done, and good luck with the germination of the others you already have sown.

And as for your pictures..... they are I think best hosted here not offsite, and they come through just fine as thumbnails as well.... so keep doing exactly what you're doing picture-wise.

Welcome again.
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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #252 on: August 12, 2009, 11:48:19 AM »

Hi Paul, thanks for the welcome. Nice to know another Australian growing Tropaeolum. I hope we can swap seed in the future, do some trading perhaps? Keep me in mind.

My azureum just started flowering, first flowers opened last weekend. Looking forward to a good few months from it. I hope you have lots of luck germinating your seed, if you would like some more to try I have some fresh seed I collected last year from mine.

Cheers,
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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #253 on: August 12, 2009, 12:24:14 PM »
Jupiter,

I'd love to do some trading, but given I only grow species that you already grow, the chances are minimal from a Tropaeolum perspective.  ;D  Now if there are other things you collect... perhaps we can make some arrangements.  I'm a collecting addict, so I grow a somewhat eclectic selection of plants, as many here can attest to from the photos and descriptions of things in my garden.  ::)
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Re: Tropaeolum
« Reply #254 on: August 19, 2009, 02:02:09 PM »
Well, it's official - my Tropaeolum seedling has turned out to be T. hookerianum austropurpureum - from seed to flowering in five months!   :o

Sorry about the shallow depth of field - it's a very dull day here today (perhaps we'll have some rain!).
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