Cyrtanthus 2012

[daveyp1970]

Hans that is stunning you don't happen to have any pollen of your Crytanthus my elatus has just come into flower (Ron cover your ears)and fancy mixing some genes up?

[Hans J]

No problem Dave 

[ronm]

[daveyp1970]

 

[Hans J]

now is flowering here  Cyrtanthus elatus 

[Cris]

Hans J, congratulations, your flowers are always amazing!!!!! You know it, righ?

I'm also making with a beatiful Cyrtanthus collection, but they are still seddlings or little plants, maybe one day I can also show here their flowers

Hi George, nice to see you here

[daveyp1970]

now is flowering here  Cyrtanthus elatus 

Nice Hans

[Hans J]

another Cyrtanthus flower is open today ( flowering for the first time in my collection ):

Cyrtanthus sanguineus f .glaucophyllus

Hans 

[David Nicholson]

Very nice Hans, lovely colour.

[Cris]

Can you tell me when do you start to fertilize your Cyrtnathus seedlings? Mine have almost two mounths and until now i did not aplied any fertilization...

I've the C. clavatus, it's a very little plant, the seedlings are deminute and I'm afraid to damage them.

And, by the way, wich is the ideal fertilizer? Ochids fertilizer, with half of the mesure?

[Paul T]

Lovely pic, Hans.  I missed it before now.  I can now see where the shape originates of the hybrid seedling I have that involve sanguineus.

I'll be interested to hear the response to Cris' question myself, as I am very, very poor at fertilising seedlings, which is why all my seedlings tend to take so long to flower for me (not just Cyrtanthus here)..... well that and the fact I seldom repot them.  Knowing what fertilisers people use would definitely be useful.

[Hans J]

Paul ,

thank you 

To the fertilizer question :
I use since 2 years Phostrogen and I'm very satisfied with the results - for seedlings I use the half dilution .
In case you can not get Phostrogen so you can also use fertilizer for Tomatoes - importent is the high Kalium part.
Orchid fertilizer is in my eyes not so well - the formula is different

Hans

[Paul T]

Hans,

I had to go and look that up.  I'd never heard of Kalium before (or if I have, I've forgotten it), and didn't realise that it was the latin name for Potassium.  Obviously the reason for the K in NPK.  You learn something new every day. 

[Hans J]

 

[jshields]

Hans,

I had to go and look that up.  I'd never heard of Kalium before (or if I have, I've forgotten it), and didn't realise that it was the latin name for Potassium.  Obviously the reason for the K in NPK.  You learn something new every day. 

Yes, "Kalium" is the German/Latin name for Potassium.  N = nitrogen and P = phosphorus.

A good general, soluble, fertilizer for bulbs is N-P-K 20-10-20.  I suggest using continuous liquid feeding (i.e., have fertilizer in the water every time you water) with Nitrogen (N) at 100 ppm.  This should not burn seedlings.

 "100 ppm" is 100 milligrams N per liter of water.  For a 20% N fertilizer, one would use 500 mg or 0.5 gram of solid, dry fertilizer per liter of water.  I got this instruction from some experts over the years, and it's what I try to use most of the time.

Jim
(retired biochemist)