Pleione Spring 2010..... to July!

[Pete Clarke]

Ueli Wackernagel
Stromboli "Fireball" lip.

Pete.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Great display Pete !!
A very good whakari if you ask me ! 

[Slug Killer]

Hi Pete

Lovely colouring on the P. Whakari.

The unknown looks like P. formosana.

David

[karel_t]

Hi everybody.

Pete - nice close-up of lips

Several plants from Prague:

[arisaema]

Could anyone tell me what this might be a (natural) hybrid of? It's Vietnamese, both flowers and pseudobulbs are fairly large. Sorry for the picture quality, I'll get better ones tomorrow.

[Paul Cumbleton]

Hi Arisaema,
Almost certainly this is P. x barbarae (which is P. grandiflora x P. bulbocodioides)

Cheers

Paul

[Slug Killer]

Pleione Ganymede
Pleione x barbarae (Pale form)
Pleione Volcanello

[Pete Clarke]

Hi Rob,

Re. the white streaking on petals, I have had the same problem this year, particularly on Zeus Weinstein, Shantungs & formosana.
So at the Malvern show, I asked someone on the Butterfield stand, (not Ian - they had a superb display as usual) if it could be due to the cold winter we had.
I was told that it is unlikely to be due to any cold effect but possibly my feeding regime.
I was advised to use a full strength, high potash feed (such as Baby Bio or Tomorite) weekly as soon as the leaves are well formed.
I have always started with 1/2 strength high nitrogen monthly initially, changing to a balanced feed mid season & high potash from about July.
So if that is what Butterfields use to acheive their tremendous plants - so will I this season.

Pete.

[arisaema]

Thank you for the identification, Paul!

[arisaema]

Here's a better pic of the pale P. x barbarae, and some P. limprichtii

[Slug Killer]

Rob

Can you measure the Rakata and tell me how big it is. I have some xbarbarae that are also very big.

Pleione Alde Saran below

[Mark Griffiths]

Some oldies from me;

P.soufriere

P. (el pico?) kestrel

P. el pico Goldcrest

P. Stromboli Fireball

P. vesuvius Phoenix

[Pieter]

Hi Rob

Good to hear the mystery Pleiones are no longer a mind teaser. I must say, that x barbarae from China looks very nice. Good shape and color.

I still have a mystery Pleione myself. I will try to post a picture tomorow. There is a chance it will also be a x barbarae. This would be verry strange if you know I have it for nine years now and bougth my first named x barbarae two years ago.  

About flower size and the biggest Pleione flower? My largest Pleione flower was on a Shantung 'Ducat', it measured 12,7cm. My Rakata doensn't comes near this.


Hi David

Nice looking Alde Saran. Is this your own cross? I have an Alde Saran that will flower in a few day's time. I got it from Blankenburg in Germany. It would be nice tot compare these.

Greetings

Pieter

[Slug Killer]

Hi Pieter

P. Alde Saran is from Gunter Blankenburg in Germany. I registered it for him last year with the RHS.

Please post a picture when yours flowers as I am interested to see how much variation there is in this cross.

David

[JPB]

Three flowers on one pseudobulb of Pleione x barbarae. This clone was obtained from Paul Christian a few years ago.

I see many beautiful x barbarae's here and i wonder if they are (clonal) descendants of once wild-collected plants?
If not, they should be named other than x barbarae. Just to make a distinction between wild clones and artificial clones (Like in Pleione x lagenaria and Pleione x Confirmation).

Can somebody shed some light here???

Hans