Pleione 2012

[Slug Killer]

hey,
this Pleione was wrong labelled, when I bought some hybrids recently.

Is it Pln. grandiflora?



cheers

This could be grandiflora but the flower shape is not typical, compared to mine. What is the bulb like and what was is meant to be?

[Pete Clarke]

David - sadly I cannot register the Rakata x grandiflora as it is not my cross.
I was given some seedlings to raise by a very generous person. I should have another to show in a few weeks.
I also have some other unreg. crosses which look like flowering for the first time soon.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

hey,
this Pleione was wrong labelled, when I bought some hybrids recently.

Is it Pln. grandiflora?



cheers

It looks a lot like P. eiger - cream form that I showed earlier !

[Luc Gilgemyn]

What a lot of superb Pleiones - a lot of new ones being shown !
Thanks everyone !!!

I have a few more myself :

1-2 : Pl. eiger "To be" - sister of "To Ah" shown earlier
3) Pl. eiger "To Ah" is continuing
4 - 5 : Pl. quizapu "Peregrine"
6 - 7 : first of two clones of Pl. sifaka

[erf]

Luc
Again, that Pl. Quizapu "Peregrine" is a beauty, but I realy like your Eiger 'To be'. This is a stunning time of year with all these pleione on fire. It is realy worth all the winter to wait.
Nice weekeen to you all
Erling

[Slug Killer]

hey,
this Pleione was wrong labelled, when I bought some hybrids recently.

Is it Pln. grandiflora?



cheers

Could also be Glacier Peak.

It looks a lot like P. eiger - cream form that I showed earlier !

[Maren]

Could be. If it is, you've got a bargain .

Here is a picture of one of my Pleione Glacier Peak. The lip colouring of mine is more reddish, but there are variations, just as there are in the P. grandiflora parent.

Rareplants have a picture that looks very much like yours.

[Hans J]

today : Pleione yunnanensis ...correct ?

[Slug Killer]

Yes it's correct Hans and very nice it is as well.

[Hans J]

Thank you David 

Hans

[Darren]

Lucey and 2 similar clones of Krakatoa.

I'm really impressed with the Krakatoa - good strong forrestii colouring but on a better stem.

[Jan Methorst]

Santorini 'Yellow Wagtail', The warm weather is bringing out the flowers even faster.

[Alex]

A few from today - 2 clones of forrestii (the first is a very large flower), Snow Monkey and Krakatoa, which is from Paul Cumbleton and is a much nicer clone than other Krakatoa I have seen (and grown) recently.

Alex

[Paul Cumbleton]

It is nice to see people posting pictures of the Pleiones they got from me, I'm glad they are performing for you. Snow Monkey is definitely in my own top ten as one of the best of the hybrids I've done and it seems popular generally. The best clones have very deep golden yellow lips and I selected one or two of these out to grow on as separate clones which I will probably give a cultivar name to. But some of you may have one anyway as what I sold were mixed seedlings.

It's also interesting to see the pictures where some of you have repeated some of the same crosses I have done - the results are in some cases very similar, in others a bit different and some are better than mine. This will all be down to the particular clones chosen as parents and also to which way round you didi the cross. It would be interesting to know whichyou used as seed parent and which as pollen parent, so results can be compared more meaningfully.

My own flowering season is in full swing now with lots of colour in the Pleione house. Many things are earlier than usual in the warm weather. I've been extremely busy recently with either work or other things on every weekend this month, but I hope I can soon get a bit of time to take some pictures to share.

Paul

[Slug Killer]

Hi Paul

All the Pleione I had from you are doing very well and the biggest shock is the size that some of these bulbs are flowering from both in Pln. Snow Monkey and Pln. Krakatoa (they are tiny bulbs). Funny you should mention selecting clones as I've just been seperating some white/yellow centered Snow Monkey from Pink/yellow centered Snow Monkey and also been making a few selections from the Pln. Krakatoa from the darker ones to the more yellow ones. Not selected any individual clones but just colour variations.

Hopefully have Pln. Marimonda flower soon as from the one picture I've seen so far looks like one of the best Pleione hybrids I've seen (my opinion).

Perhaps you can take some pictures of things to come from you in the near future?