Crocus November 2012

[pontus]

some late flowering autumn crocuses from me

goulymyi, with its fabulous honey scent, pulchellus, banaticus snowdrift, medius (ligusticus), tournefortii and speciosus lithuanian autumn.

because of very cold and rainy weather, I have had to bring most of these pots indoors for the flowers to open, or place them outside again during very sunny days, but it is still cold (about 5+c), so some, like the crocus medius, really have trouble opening fully, even indoors...

Pontus

[Armin]

05 - This is what I received from Holland this summer as clusii, salzmannii, pulchellus Albus, pulchellus, Zephyr......some years ago at least a few corms were correct, but meanwhile they are 100% speciosus ......   

Thomas,
you should have known it better, you persistent offender!
Please forgive me my cynical comment.
It is an annoying matter - simply fraud.

[Armin]

some late flowering autumn crocuses from me
Pontus

Hi Pontus,
your C. pulchellus is some sort of C. speciosus, it seems. Mixed up?
Typical C. pulchellus has white anthers and yellow center.

[Thomas Huber]

Thomas,
you should have known it better, you persistent offender!
Please forgive me my cynical comment.
It is an annoying matter - simply fraud.

Of course I had a bad feeling, but I had hope, that the situation in Holland has changed and I will at least get a few good ones to fill the gaps in my garden.....and one bag with salzmannii was indeed true, and I'm still waiting for some flowers that I received from a dealer last week who is also present on the forum where I have hope that the plants are true.

[bulborum]

I hope too
otherwise the firm who searched them for me
has a lot of trouble with me

Roland

[Thomas Huber]

Thanks Roland - will let you know when they are out.

[pontus]

yes, i have had a feeling for a while that they are not the true pulchellus....however, this batch always starts flowering 2-3 weeks after all my speciosus forms have finished, and carries on flowering to the end of november, sometimes even early december. The flower tubes and flower is also taller than usual speciosus....any ideas on what it could be? or if it is indeed speciosus, could it just be a very late flowering clone with "tall" flowers?

Pontus

[Armin]

Of course I had a bad feeling, but I had hope, that the situation in Holland has changed and I will at least get a few good ones to fill the gaps in my garden.....and one bag with salzmannii was indeed true, and I'm still waiting for some flowers that I received from a dealer last week who is also present on the forum where I have hope that the plants are true.

Thomas,
croconuts in general seem to radiate prevalent optimism

[Armin]

yes, i have had a feeling for a while that they are not the true pulchellus....however, this batch always starts flowering 2-3 weeks after all my speciosus forms have finished, and carries on flowering to the end of november, sometimes even early december. The flower tubes and flower is also taller than usual speciosus....any ideas on what it could be? or if it is indeed speciosus, could it just be a very late flowering clone with "tall" flowers?
Pontus

Pontus,
C. speciosus is very variable in flower size, height, colors and flowering time.
In central Europe elongated pedicels usually are a symptom of lack of sunlight.

[daveyp1970]

some late flowering autumn crocuses from me

goulymyi, with its fabulous honey scent, pulchellus, banaticus snowdrift, medius (ligusticus), tournefortii and speciosus lithuanian autumn.

because of very cold and rainy weather, I have had to bring most of these pots indoors for the flowers to open, or place them outside again during very sunny days, but it is still cold (about 5+c), so some, like the crocus medius, really have trouble opening fully, even indoors...

Pontus

Pontus your speciosus lithuanian is very nice is it a hybrid?

[John Aipassa]

David,

Crocus speciosus 'Lithuanian Autumn' is a speciosus selection of Leonid Bondarenko www.litbulbgarden.com.

[pontus]

yes, it is indeed the selection by Leonid Bondarenko. The nice thing about it is also the white back side of the petals, i will upload a new image of it soon showing this excellent feature. However, its not a very strong growing selection and multiplies very slowly...

[Hans A.]

Thanks Thomas and John for your comments!

Your boryi looks bluish - this would point for tournefortii or a hybrid of both.

Certainly you are right!  Flower do not close at night - got them as seed collected in Crete a few years ago.

Roland, congratulation for this beautiful C. mathewii!

Pontus, better you do not grow your C. medius near your other Crocus - they seem to be virused

[krisderaeymaeker]

Crocus cartwrightianus again ...

[Janis Ruksans]

some late flowering autumn crocuses from me

goulymyi, with its fabulous honey scent, pulchellus, banaticus snowdrift, medius (ligusticus), tournefortii and speciosus lithuanian autumn.

because of very cold and rainy weather, I have had to bring most of these pots indoors for the flowers to open, or place them outside again during very sunny days, but it is still cold (about 5+c), so some, like the crocus medius, really have trouble opening fully, even indoors...

Pontus

Dear Pontus, your Crocus ligusticus (earlier medius) 100% is virusinfected. It certainly is Dutch stock? They almost all are infected. Crocus pulchellus - it is speciosus.
Janis