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Alessandro.marinello

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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #30 on: August 02, 2011, 08:55:19 PM »
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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #31 on: August 07, 2011, 08:07:01 PM »
Here is my first Cyrtanthus montanus to bloom this season.  Montanus has narrow petals but multiple buds on the umbel.  You need multiple bulbs, because mine at least don't seem to bloom but once every several years.

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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #32 on: August 07, 2011, 08:28:38 PM »
My C montanus is flowering too, it took last year out but flowerd 2 years ago. It produced a lot of offsetts so I put it in a big pot with some offsetts around the edge.
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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #33 on: August 07, 2011, 08:38:51 PM »
Quote from: PeterT on August 07, 2011, 08:28:38 PM
My C montanus is flowering too, it took last year out but flowerd 2 years ago. It produced a lot of offsetts so I put it in a big pot with some offsetts around the edge.

I wonder if photoperiod triggers flowering in these Cyrtanthus?  We're at 40°N latitude; you must be much farther north, Peter.

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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #34 on: August 07, 2011, 09:18:18 PM »
My plant lives in the corner of a south facing window sill with no curtains or obstruction to light. My feeling was that I had kept it in constant growth last year, but this year watering has been a little more erratic and it went close to dormancy a couple of times through drying out. I believe this can stimulate flowering in some plants?
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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #35 on: August 08, 2011, 12:18:39 PM »
here flowers in this day a nice hybrid ( elatus X montanus )

It is strange - I grow C.montanus since some years but it has never flowering .....this hybrid flowers regular ....
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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #36 on: August 08, 2011, 01:02:12 PM »
Very nice cross Hans! 

I've heard C. montanus isn't the easiest to bloom, I don't grow it so I'm not sure but I think Jim does!
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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #37 on: August 08, 2011, 01:16:03 PM »
Thank you Josh ,

I have received from a nice person in USA before some years some small bulblets ....they have grow fantasic for me ...now I have a big pot with many bulbs  ;D
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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #38 on: August 08, 2011, 01:31:29 PM »
Lovely Cyrtanthus and also a lovely photo.

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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #39 on: August 08, 2011, 01:44:55 PM »
Thank you Angie !
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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #40 on: August 08, 2011, 01:55:20 PM »
It is the depth of colour and the jewel like richness of these flowers like Hans'  C.x montanus which takes my breath away.  8)
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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #41 on: August 08, 2011, 02:10:01 PM »
Thank you Maggi  ;D
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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #42 on: August 08, 2011, 04:25:42 PM »
The hybrid [elatus x montanus] is truly superior.  I got mine as bulbs in 1999 from the I.B.S. BX.  It is the most free-flowering Cyrtanthus I have -- but none of the Cyrtanthus I have are all that floriferous.  The [elatus x montanus] is even somewhat fertile.  Mine have occasionally produced seeds, although I've never planted them.

The hybrid [elatus x montanus] is better than the species montanus; it blooms more easily than montanus.  I think the color on the hybrid is better than on the species as well.

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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #43 on: August 08, 2011, 08:49:21 PM »
The hybred seems to be a super plant, This is my pot of Cyrtanthus montanus today.
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Re: Cyrtanthus 2011
« Reply #44 on: August 08, 2011, 09:05:28 PM »
also my is in flower

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