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Sprekelia howardii
« on: June 30, 2011, 08:32:06 PM »
Sprekelia howardii is blooming.  These are growing in 5.5 inch square pots; the flowers span about 5 inches across the faces.  The tepals are quite narrow.

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« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2011, 08:47:01 PM »
WOW :o
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« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2011, 08:53:11 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2011, 09:08:22 PM »
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Sprekelia howardii is blooming.

You guys are so boring... that's not just a WOW, that's an OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!
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« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2011, 09:13:43 PM »
How true Maggie, you express it much better !!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2011, 09:17:24 PM »
 ;D ;D Thanks Peter, I pride myself on my perspicacity in such matters! ;) ;)
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« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2011, 10:43:00 PM »
Jim, this is exceptionally rare in cultivation. What an accomplishment! Are they separate individuals?

Like the other, formosissima, they are both from North America.
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« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2011, 11:14:24 PM »
And Jim

Do they make seed ???

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« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2011, 12:36:03 AM »
The seeds  these bulbs grew from were given to me by David Lehmiller.  I think Dave may have collected the original bulbs in Mexico with Thad Howard -- I have forgotten the exact details.  Some of these bulbs are starting to make a few offsets.  Some of them also produce a second scape right after the first.

The bulbs are each growing in an individual 5.5 inch pot.  Dave said that they really hate to have their roots disturbed, so I have not repotted these since planting them.  They are fertile, but self-sterile. I have several seedlings so I have produced some seeds in the past.  I am trying to pollinate these to make more seeds, of course.  I don't know the shelf-life of these seeds, but I suspect it may be somewhat short.  So I will probably donate any seeds I get to the Pacific Bulb Society BX for immediate distribution.

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« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2011, 01:00:06 AM »
Very Beautiful Sprekelia Jim!
Congratulations!
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« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2011, 01:44:24 PM »
I grow these outdoors on our deck in summer.  That means they get natural rainfall here in Indiana, anywhere from 2.5 to 6 inches per month -- quite variable from month to month and year to year.  They are planted in a gritty mix:  Promix + sand + granite chicken grit,  2 : 1 : 1 by volume.

In winter, they are kept bone dry in the cool greenhouse -- the one with the winter-growing Haemanthus in it.  Temperatures stay above freezing.

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Re: Sprekelia howardii
« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2011, 02:32:30 PM »
Thanks, Jim, for the info. They hate to have their roots damaged as all amaryllids do, but can be moved without problems with the root ball undisturbed.
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« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2011, 03:49:20 PM »
CONGRATULATIONS and SOOOOOOOO beautiful !

never seen it before.. Many thank's !
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« Reply #13 on: July 01, 2011, 04:50:53 PM »
Had to have a look, a name like that it had to be something spectacular and wasn't disappointed  8)
Thanks for sharing

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Re: Sprekelia howardii
« Reply #14 on: July 01, 2011, 09:56:14 PM »
Jim
I rest to ask that dimensions have your  bulbs? I cultivate S. howardii, but still nothing flowers
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