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Heinie

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Cryptostephanus vansonii
« on: April 09, 2010, 09:06:19 AM »
Here is my Cryptostephanus vansonii in flower now. The flower is 27mm in diameter. I could not take a better photo outside due to the rain.



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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2010, 09:21:35 AM »
Nice to see Heine - I have two seedlings just come up from Silverhill seed.  Any idea how long I'll have to wait for flowers?
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Heinie

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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2010, 09:09:41 PM »
Gail,

They flower in 4 to 5 years. It is really worth the wait. The flowers looks like porcelain.

I have a second plant starting to flower now. I have three seedlings of 3 years old too. They do not seem to make many offsets because the one above is 8 years old and flowering for the 4th year now and have not made an offset yet. I am hoping to add the C haemanthoides to my collection one day.
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Alessandro.marinello

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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2010, 10:03:29 AM »
Heinie
lovely, and seems also with flower pink, hopes that also mine this year blooms
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Heinie

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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2010, 11:37:51 AM »
Alessandro,

Thank you. I will hold thumbs for you that your C vansonii also flowers this year.
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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2010, 12:02:13 PM »
Thanks Heinie you have forgotten to add pink ;D
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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2010, 12:26:02 PM »
with Pink shades as well in your flowers Alessandro.
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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2010, 04:40:02 AM »
Quote from: Heinie on April 10, 2010, 11:37:51 AM
...I will hold thumbs for you .
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Is that like "crossing fingers"? I hadn't heard the expression before.
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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2010, 05:43:00 AM »
Fermi,

Yes, it is like crossing fingers. Holding thumbs ,with the thumb hidden and held under the other 4 fingers,  is used in South Africa as well as crossing fingers.
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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2010, 09:09:24 AM »
As they say in the classics, "You learn something new everyday"!
thanks, Heinie,
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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #10 on: June 16, 2010, 03:25:16 AM »
Gorgeous, Heinie.  I have 2 little seedlings coming along of this species, so hope they will flower for me somewhen in the future.  8)  As you say, they look a little like porcelain.

Well done.
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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #11 on: June 16, 2010, 05:58:24 AM »
Paul,

The photo above is from my plant that I received as a flowering offset.

My other mature C vansonii plant was grown from seed and it flowered in her 4th year this year. That is worth the wait for me. They grow very fast after the second year it seems. I have 3 more 2 year old seedlings started by someone else and I can almost see them filling out fast.
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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2010, 07:59:19 PM »
my Cryptostephanus vansonii to be in flower, sorry that it is not pink
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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2010, 08:22:43 PM »
Well done Alessandro. She is very nice.
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Re: Cryptostephanus vansonii
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2010, 08:36:03 PM »
Heinie thanks, the flowers are discs of a valve in opening itself, the closing would have to last
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