Clivia

[Maggi Young]

Tony, a perfect size of photo.... lovely sharp quality and a super Clivia.... a winner on all counts, methinks!


How long do they take to flower from seed?

[Tony Willis]

Maggi

as you will see I am now home from my visit to the wilds of Scotland following the show at Dunblane.

Sown in December 03 but the others from that sowing flowered last year.

[Maggi Young]

Thanks, Tony.... I was curious because I have never had seed from my plants..... got plenty fat pods developing but my Dad always cut them off before they ripened properly, despite my best efforts to prevent him doing so   

Always wondered what I was missing..... it'll be interesting to see if I get any seed from the two pale lemon yellow plants I have coming into flower now.      I'll need to do some paintbrush work though... no insects at the minute.

[Tony Willis]

My other three seedlings are a cross between my yellow one and a deep red.I bought the yellow one which is not very good flower shape and which was very expensive but my red is seedling of a seedling over quite a few years.The red colour is dominant.They are in fact self fertile but the seeds seem to take forever to ripen.

[ashley]

A week or two ago I collected a few seeds from C. 'Bog-standard' .  You're welcome to them if you want, Maggi. 
Others sown in December are beginning to germinate at last.

[Carlo]

Ashley,

What's 'Bog-Standard' (and why the wink?).

[Maggi Young]

A kind offer, Ashley, thankyou  but I want to try for my own seeds.

[ashley]

What's 'Bog-Standard' (and why the wink?).

The usual or common form Carlo.  'Bog-standard' as a cultivar name was meant to be ironic; hence the wink.

[Michael]

Hello!

Some pictures of my clivia, blooming and frutifying at the moment.

The first one, i presume is a 12 y old C. miniata, and the others are hybrids.

[akoen]

They are very nice Michael. Do you have seeds on the hybrids? They seam to be heavy bloomers.

I bought a new on last week. It has big flowers.

[Michael]

Hi!

Yes, the hybrids set a lot of seeds, the species too. I usually dispose of them, because i already have too much plants, but can send some when they are mature, if you are interested

[johnw]

Yes, the hybrids set a lot of seeds, the species too.

Michael - Your warm weather must help. I self-pollinated Clivia 'Vico Yellow' for two forumists and I count 12 fallen pods that aborted and only two pods that have stayed on and plumped up.  This is the first time it has ever set seed.

johnw

[akoen]

Hi!

Yes, the hybrids set a lot of seeds, the species too. I usually dispose of them, because i already have too much plants, but can send some when they are mature, if you are interested

Yes thank you very much. It is not easy to get hold on seeds in Norway.

[Michael]

Michael - Your warm weather must help. I self-pollinated Clivia 'Vico Yellow' for two forumists and I count 12 fallen pods that aborted and only two pods that have stayed on and plumped up.  This is the first time it has ever set seed.

Hi John.

Yes the climate must help, but i guess the clone itself has also some influence, regarding fertility. Those 12 pods were all on the same spike?


@Akoen
No problem, i'll let you know when they mature!

Here are two more pictures of Clivia nobilis

[johnw]

Michael - Your warm weather must help. I self-pollinated Clivia 'Vico Yellow' for two forumists and I count 12 fallen pods that aborted and only two pods that have stayed on and plumped up.  This is the first time it has ever set seed.

Hi John.
Yes the climate must help, but i guess the clone itself has also some influence, regarding fertility. Those 12 pods were all on the same spike?

Yes, same spike.

johnw