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Alex

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Tecophilaea 2011
« on: March 12, 2011, 11:12:04 PM »
New season underway, here's T. cyanocrocus today.

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Re: Tecophilaea 2011
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2011, 11:15:15 PM »
My word Alex, your spring season is in good flow! .... or should that be flower;D
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Re: Tecophilaea 2011
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2011, 11:17:33 PM »
Alex

did you keep them frost free?

Everybody I know around here did not and we have lost the lot.
Chorley, Lancashire zone 8b

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Re: Tecophilaea 2011
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2011, 12:06:43 AM »
Hi Tony,

Yes, everything is always kept a few degrees above freezing due to a previous bad experience...

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Re: Tecophilaea 2011
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2011, 07:55:56 AM »
Tony, not everyone. We have a mutual friend whom I visited last week, with a goot pot full in an outside frame
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Re: Tecophilaea 2011
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2011, 02:24:28 PM »
There are many flowers in my Tecophilea cyanocrocus. But I can't get Tecophilea viridiflora to flower. It will increase every year but no flowers. Can someone help me?
Table with Tecophilea cyanocrocus.
Tecophilea violiflora
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Re: Tecophilaea 2011
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2011, 02:45:03 PM »
Tecophilaea violiflora usually only has the one leaf, while the floral stem has a few little flowers ..... you potful all look to have two leaves.... I wonder if something has gone wrong to cause the bulbs to make more foliage at the expense of flowers?
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Re: Tecophilaea 2011
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2011, 03:21:28 PM »
Marvellous plants Alex and Kirsten!
I agree with Maggi, leaves look something strange for this species - here a picture I took last weekend of Tecophilaea violiflora, apologies for the bad quality.
« Last Edit: March 15, 2011, 03:29:39 PM by Hans A. »
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Re: Tecophilaea 2011
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2011, 05:50:58 PM »
My Tecophilaea have just poked their noses above the soil in the last week, seedlings have also appeared in the last couple of days. I thought I head lost the lot.

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Re: Tecophilaea 2011
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2011, 07:13:31 PM »
Kirsten, T. violiflora comes from a warmer region than cyanocrocus. T. violiflora can be grown well like one would a Cape bulb.
Alberto Castillo, in south America, near buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Re: Tecophilaea 2011
« Reply #10 on: March 16, 2011, 02:53:31 AM »
There are many flowers in my Tecophilea cyanocrocus. But I can't get Tecophilea viridiflora to flower. It will increase every year but no flowers. Can someone help me?
Table with Tecophilea cyanocrocus.
Tecophilea violiflora

Good grief white Tecophileas! I had no idea, even some kissed blue.  How did I manage to miss those?

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Re: Tecophilaea 2011
« Reply #11 on: March 16, 2011, 03:22:10 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young
Tecophilaea violiflora usually only has the one leaf, while the floral stem has a few little flowers ..... you potful all look to have two leaves.... I wonder if something has gone wrong to cause the bulbs to make more foliage at the expense of flowers?

You are right it has two leaves. I got it from Gothenburg Botanical Garden, I will ask them if they have an explanation next time I see them.
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Re: Tecophilaea 2011
« Reply #12 on: March 16, 2011, 08:42:32 PM »
There are many flowers in my Tecophilea cyanocrocus. But I can't get Tecophilea viridiflora to flower. It will increase every year but no flowers. Can someone help me?
Table with Tecophilea cyanocrocus.
Tecophilea violiflora

Good grief white Tecophileas! I had no idea, even some kissed blue.  How did I manage to miss those?

johnw

Well I was thinking green, but that's probably even more unlikely. :-\
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