Cyclamen 2013

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This is a pot grown Cyclamen persicum grown from AGS Seedex a few years ago "ex Israel"
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[Gerry Webster]

Cyclamen graecum

Always the second one to flower here.

[Menai]

I have had C. graecum since 2004 (grown from JJA seed) but it has never flowered for me. Any tips?

Erle
Anglesey where the winter growers are beginning to appear.

[Gerry Webster]

Erle - I grow them in clay pots & keep the pots plunged in damp sand while dormant. Watering into the pots + the occasional high potash feed  only starts when they are fully in growth. The pots are kept in a S-facing frame which gets quite hot in summer. I attach a photo  of the plant posted above -  which is about 20 years old - taken somewhat later in the season in 2012.

[Mark Griffiths]

C.graecum has fleshy roots that if you dry the pot out completely will die and set the plant back. But equally I've found plants that are kept cool and moist and so evergreen as Trevor Wiltshire suggests don't flower either.

The best ones I have are kept so the roots are just moist but the tuber itself is dry and kept warm in the summer.

Having said that I find cyclamen to be individual and some seedlings grow faster, flower better and some just sulk. Forever.

[Roma]

I have a number of Cyclamen graecum from seed from CSE plants sown in 2003 and 2004.  They were doing really well and three had 12 to 15 flowers in October 2010.  I was hobbling around on crutches at the time so did not get many pics.  They got frozen that winter.  I lost a few, mainly the bigger tubers but was surprised how many survived.  It has taken them a long time to recover but they look very promising now with lots of flower buds showing.  I was given advice to scrape off the top dressing to expose the tops of the tubers and water them occasionally from the bottom.  They are in the hottest, sunniest corner of the greenhouse.  I don't have a plunge so the roots must have got quite hot at times.  It is also the coldest spot in winter.

[Roma]

I paid a fleeting visit to the Cruickshank Botanic Garden early yesterday evening.  I see the Cyclamen rohlfsianum collected in Libya in 1952 and their offspring are still alive and well.
This was taken through the glass so not as clear as it might be.
The plant front right is C. rohlfsianum and the one back right.  I'm not sure about the one in between.  The one in the centre with a single darker coloured flower is also rohlfsianum.
Right in front with two flowers and a couple of leaves appears to be a seedling growing in the plunge

[Menai]

Thanks for those replies. My plants have been probably too dry but not warm enough in the summer. I will make a special effort next year to follow the advice and see what happens.

Erle

[Mark Griffiths]

here's an oddity. Came to me as a purpurascens Riva x Bled (oddly I've been to both locations and collected a few C.purpurascens back in the 70s). It's a pewter/ silver - leaves looking rather poor at the momnet though new ones are coming through. It's white ish with a pink nose. Third year flowering like this so it's not some odd one off.

[goofy]

really interesting color form, Mark 

[Roma]

The Cyclamen hederifolium in the gravel in front of the house are better than ever this year

[Roma]

My best Cyclamen mirabile
and my first Cyclamen graecum flower since 2010

[Mark Griffiths]

lovely mirabile! Looks like I'll be getting some flowers on my graecum..they've taken a few years off because I moved them somewhere they didn't like but hopefully that's behind us now!

[krisderaeymaeker]

My best Cyclamen mirabile
and my first Cyclamen graecum flower since 2010

Great C. mirabile Roma ! The graecum has nice leaves too !
Here the buds of C. graecum start to grow fast now ........

[krisderaeymaeker]

The Cyclamen hederifolium in the gravel in front of the house are better than ever this year

Stunning those Cyclamen in gravel-conditions Roma.
Here C.hederifolium was better in previous year .....