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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #75 on: December 08, 2011, 02:24:20 PM »
I hope this gives you an idea

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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #76 on: December 08, 2011, 02:33:01 PM »
Thank you Arnold ...thats easy  :D

Maggi - thats small white bulbs a little bit underground ...if you see it you would never believe which small bulbs are this

I'm a little shoked ....in your home lives the "Ian the Bulb despot" ...he has to know how all bulb look  ::)

I will look if I find a pic of a bulb ...

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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #77 on: December 08, 2011, 02:39:03 PM »
Here are some Massonia depressa ( sown from Silverhill )
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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #78 on: December 08, 2011, 02:43:36 PM »
We don't grow any of these so I am very interested to see the bulbs. Strange little bulbs, heh?
So much foliage from that little bulb. :o

Apologise to your plant for me, Roland... tell it I am sorry for causing  it to be disturbed!  ;D ;)
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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #79 on: December 08, 2011, 02:48:44 PM »
...maybe Ian should start a little collection - they are easy !

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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #80 on: December 08, 2011, 02:53:00 PM »
I just took of the top-layer potting-mixture
It doesn't harm the plants
as long as you don't break the roots

By the time you have nothing to do  ;D
we can make a database with all different dry bulbs

There is an enormous amount of knowledge on this forum
Probably this can be the best bulb picture database of the world

before you start thinking
maybe better to drink a little glass of wine ;)

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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #81 on: December 08, 2011, 03:59:46 PM »
Maggi the bulbs are so tiny, the first one I got I put in a tiny pot, soon I relised that this tiny bulb needed a bigger pot. They are fun to grow. Just wish they grew in our summer time and could enjoy them more.

Hans love those groups of Massonia  8), can't wait till I can bulk up my collection.

Angie :)
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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #82 on: December 08, 2011, 07:41:53 PM »
I only have M. depressa as a mature bulb, a couple of others as seedlings but the bulb of depressa is just about exactly like the bulb of what I has as Albuca sp. Basutoland but I believe is A. humilis or possibly A. cooperi, like a little inverted snowdrop, white and green with yellow pollen and an almond icing scent. I'm sure you know it Maggi. The bulb (of both) seems large for the size of the top growth.
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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #83 on: December 08, 2011, 08:39:50 PM »
Quote from: angie on December 08, 2011, 03:59:46 PM
They are fun to grow. Just wish they grew in our summer time and could enjoy them more.



Angie, I couldn't agree more. Mine have now completed flowering or have stalled. It would have been good to got them to a show so that other folk could sit in awe and admiration!

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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #84 on: December 08, 2011, 09:48:23 PM »
Quote from: FrazerHenderson on December 08, 2011, 08:39:50 PM
Quote from: angie on December 08, 2011, 03:59:46 PM
They are fun to grow. Just wish they grew in our summer time and could enjoy them more.



Angie, I couldn't agree more. Mine have now completed flowering or have stalled. It would have been good to got them to a show so that other folk could sit in awe and admiration!



Fingers crossed we will get a better display next year, just hope this doesn't damage the bulbs. We are lucky we can admire our forum members Massonia  :)
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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #85 on: December 09, 2011, 07:36:06 AM »
Quote from: FrazerHenderson on December 08, 2011, 08:39:50 PM
Quote from: angie on December 08, 2011, 03:59:46 PM
They are fun to grow. Just wish they grew in our summer time and could enjoy them more.



Angie, I couldn't agree more. Mine have now completed flowering or have stalled. It would have been good to got them to a show so that other folk could sit in awe and admiration!



M. pygmaea usually flowers early enough for the autumn shows (I took several to Ponteland this October). Also - some species are very attractive in fruit and I have taken M. pustulata in fruit to enter in foliage classes at the Blackpool show in March.

I liked Roland's pictures of the bulbs. I think one reason you rarely see Massonia bulbs is that in my experience they are hardly ever completely dormant - they seem to start root growth before the previous year's roots have died off and I am quite reluctant to disturb them much. If I send bulbs to friends then the timing is critical - immediately after the leaves die off is best, before the new roots get going.

It is surprising how small the bulbs are. My biggest Massonia is a big form of M. depressa with leaves 20cm long (i.e. 40cm across the leaf-pair). The bulb is only about the size of a walnut.
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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #86 on: December 09, 2011, 01:40:52 PM »
Interesting stuff on the small size of the bulbs .... and the very small window of dormancy.
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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #87 on: December 09, 2011, 09:18:58 PM »
Whilst out for lunch with some girlfriends today we were chatting about what we would like for Christmas. I sat and listened, Emerald ring  was one, another was Jimmy Choo shoes, Diamond earring's at least a carat. Well you should have seen their face when I said a pot full of Massonia bulbs in bloom like Darren has. What a laugh we had. Then they went on to ask me who this Darren was. I told them he was a happily married man that had a lovely blonde thin wife called Susan and he grew these lovely plants that I love. They will all be asking me what I got for my Christmas. I think they thought that I wasn't serious  ;D little do they know that these little bulbs are harder to get than diamonds :o

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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #88 on: December 09, 2011, 09:46:42 PM »
I'm not clear on the comments regarding dormancy for the Massonia.

All the bulbs I have were received dormant and stayed that way for weeks until temps dropped and they came into growth.
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Re: Massonia 2011
« Reply #89 on: December 09, 2011, 10:27:48 PM »
The same here Arnold

Mine where dormant for almost 2 months

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