Pleione 2012

[monocotman]

Maren - very nice. There are very few true albino hybrids around.
Any idea whether it will increase quickly?
David

[Maren]

To be honest, I can't remember. I'll have to go and take a look to see how many growths I have on each pseudobulb. They make quite substantial bulbs. I was amazed how long it took them to come into flower. My P Lhasa 'Blushes' have been over for a good three weeks.

[goofy]

Hi,

flowering now P. Lhasa 'Snowball', two of 15 and all the same.

thanks God , lucky Lady

(but with 2 lamellae instead of 4)

cheers

[Paul Cumbleton]

Hi Peter,
That's very interesting because I have never seen a grandiflora like this before, especially with the stripes on the top two petals (often found in forrestii, which made me wonder if this was in fact your Indri). The spots on the lip are also different, being more patches than spots and distributed in a different pattern to any other I have seen - but again rather like some forrestii. Finally the whole shape of the flower is just like some of my Indri but not like any grandiflora I have seen. Looking at the picture without knowing what it was I would have said "a hybrid that has got forrestii in it somewhere".  So I wonder what the grandiflora parent you selfed looks like - do you have photos? Does it have the unusual characteristics of the progeny? If not then maybe that grandiflora is in fact itself a hybrid? Whatever, I think your result is an attractive plant.

I have a cross between a yellow and a more creamy grandiflora and so far 90% of the offspring have been yellow, with just the odd white one.

Paul

[ThomasB]

Lhasa 'Snowball' is a good contrast to all the colourful hybrids shown here. 

Two well known hybrids with darker colours and third one I got as Rakata 'Keith Rattray'. Compared to other pictures neither colour nor lip are fitting. It resembles a Vesuvius - what do you think?

[Pete Clarke]

Hi Paul.
I was given this as a grandiflora x self seedling and I have not seen the parents. I agree that there seems to be forrestii characteristics showing.

An unregistered first flowering of Rakata x grandiflora (yellow clone.)
Quizapu "Peregrine".

[Sempervivum]

Pln. Orizaba 'Fish Eagle'
This flower is a disappointment: the petals are not all that nice orange, as in images that are found on the web and from dealers. Why they do it? Does temperature affect the flower color? Or maybe it is not really the clone 'Fish Eagle'?

The fact that the petals are slightly wrinkled, is probably because I helped them open.

[Maren]

Hallo Ulrich,

something must have gone wrong with your temperature control. The bud developed to a point where it got a shock and decided to abort. By the time you opened the petals, the bud had already started to wilt. That's why the petals have no substance and the colour has faded to brown.

Bad luck, this can happen to any of us and is particularly disappointing if you've only just bought the bulb.

I would carefully remove the flower with scissors, making sure not to damage the emerging leaf. Sometimes the flower stem and leaf stem are fused and if you pull out the flower, the leaf comes along too !!! That would diminish your chances of a nice replacement bulb for next year. Just keep looking after your plant, feed it well as the leaf develops and you should have a nice flower next year.

This is what P. Orizaba 'Fish Eagle' looked like when I last photographed it at Ian Butterfield's.

[karel_t]

P. Bromo and nice coloured P. Glacier Peak
K.

[monocotman]

ThomasB - nice pleiones but I agree that your photo of Rakata 'Keith Rattray' doesn't look right for this clone. The flower is usually huge and with much more yellow in the general colour. It could be a vesuvius clone or even a volcanello,
Regards,
David

[goofy]

hey,
this is the last of my flowering Pleiones this year,
which I recieved recently from a japanese source.
the person cultivates this clone since the early 90ies.
so it might be genetically different from the UK cultivars,
but fairly looks the same

Pleione X confusa (forrestii X albiflora)

[yijiawang]

Pleione bilamellata , from Sichuan

[goofy]

Pleione bilamellata , from Sichuan

hello, we already discussed this in February 2012

http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8611.0

for me this is NOT a new species,
perhaps a local variety of whatever.

 

[yijiawang]

hello, we already discussed this in February 2012

http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8611.0

for me this is NOT a new species,
perhaps a local variety of whatever.

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Thank you very much! whatever, it is a lovely Pleione for me:-)

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Some more flowering for me at the moment :

1) good old Pleione asama
2 and 3) Pleione bromo with a slightly damaged petal
4 and 5) Pleione kenya "Bald Eagle"
6 and 7) Pleione whakari

8. Pleione rakata - well filled pot