Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: Gerard Oud on December 26, 2007, 01:33:44 PM
-
I think this will be the first Galanthus nivalis that will start flowering this winter, i have not forced it or whatever its growing outside and its definitly a nivalis.
Beste wishes for everyone and a good and healthy 2008, for body and garden.
-
I'm always telling people if they grow snowdrops they should keep some G. nivalis also
-
I'm always telling people if they grow snowdrops they should keep some G. nivalis also
You mean they're no 'drops?
-
my nivalis is flowering for about a week now,in the greenhouse and also in the garden.it`s not the normal one,that is way behind.this is an very early selection.
-
Show us a photograph that you are telling the truth Loes.
-
it`s on my camera Gerard.Silly me,I don`t know how to place a photograph :-[
and that`s a shame because I am a technician but computers and stuff...
my dear husband came home...
-
yes Rob. Everyone who is in to snowdrops, and I suppose any other bulb, should also grow the species. These can be looked at to see how their flowers and leaves affect the hybrids.
I bought some elwesii monostitctus from Ebay last year and asked for them to be left in the ground until the leaves were past their best. The description was very 'blue' leaves. They cost £1 each. They are very good and have an excellent bloom, as in dusting, on them. On the other hand I bought some 'Augustus' that were extremely virused. They went in the bin and I got my money back
If you are buying snowdrops on Ebay I recommend the following two - ombersleyplants and _ _ _ if only I can remember her name. She also sell Geraniums especially G. phaeums
-
place a photo on here or edit it? I'll edit it and post it for you
-
I have three snow drops flowering today: peshmenii is still out, having opened a couple of weeks before Christmas. I also have G. reginae-olgae 'Tilebarn Jamie' just coming out and in the next but one pot 'Robin Hood'!
-
It's amazing the difference in flowering times...Tilebarn Jamie is now over and peshmenni is about to flower!
-
It's amazing the difference in flowering times...Tilebarn Jamie is now over and peshmenni is about to flower!
What have you been doing to your peshmenni Brian ? As we are not that far apart, mine must have flowered a month ago and has a large seed pot on it now.
-
Here they started flowering one week ago. Some are very short in stature this year. Maybe I will post a picture the next days.
-
My G. peshmenii are finished a couple of months
-
This is what i have never seen before. I chipped one of my selections last summer and now they are already some getting in flow from a chippie!
-
Gerard your pots look too wet and I would worry about rot kills the roots
-
I has been raining for a while here so it looks wet, but they are planted in peatmoss so that is no problem, what we need now is a bit frost and not so much rain.
-
Flowers from chips in less than a year is fantastic! Did you feed the young ones much? And if so, what did you feed them with, please?
-
Gerard, did you check if the flowers are coming from the new bulbs or from the remains of the old bulb chip? I had this phenomenon one year and Ian Young (I think it was) said the embryonic flower had most likely formed in the old bulb and sprouted alongside the new bulbil from the chip.
You could poke away some compost to check.
I wonder if the new small bulbs formed in the bags last Summer would have been able to form a flower bud while needing their energy to make the new bulb scales?
-
Gerard,
That is an extraordinary success with a chipped bulb. Could you describe what treatment you gave them to bring them on so quickly. No doubt you didn't put the chipped bulbs straight into peat. What did you start them off in? When did you move them on etc?
Paddy
-
If only Janet, Judy's, would come in for a quick chat on this subject
-
When i chip the bulbs around July i take the biggest ones from a species, they have proven to be best growers. I try to cut them in as much pieces as possible (vertically) and after a fungicide treatment i put them in perlite.
Then they stay in a separate room with a constant temperature of 24 'celsius, then after a 6 to 8 weeks you can see the new bulbils grown on the old chips.
I use the fertilised peat you can buy in gardencentre to plant them in.
I know that when you chip a bulb, there is a reaction starting, lets say its a reaction to survive. They start growing very fast. And about the early flowering Martin, i think its the one that got the biggest part of the the bulbbottom where stadium G develops.
When you chip them in July there is no stadium G visible, i think its visible round the end of August.
But i will have a look inside the pots to be sure.
-
Then they stay in a separate room with a constant temperature of 24 'celsius, then after a 6 to 8 weeks you can see the new bulbils grown on the old chips.
Gerard,
Do you mean a separate room or a container similar to a fridge (with the opposite effect of course)? I am looking for something which can be used for a small amount of bulbs/chips.
Gerd
-
And about the early flowering Martin, i think its the one that got the biggest part of the the bulbbottom where stadium G develops.
When you chip them in July there is no stadium G visible, i think its visible round the end of August.
But i will have a look inside the pots to be sure.
Sounds like the flower will be coming from the old chip then.
-
Do you mean a separate room or a container similar to a fridge (with the opposite effect of course)? I am looking for something which can be used for a small amount of bulbs/chips.
Gerd, we put the chips in a plastic/poly bag with perlite and keep them in a cupboard, next to the hot water tank of the house... nice and dark and warm.. they like it!
-
Gerd I have put them in a propagator and kept that covered. I didn't want them to get too warm so pleated a newspaper and put that in the bottom to keep them above the cables. It seemed to work well.
-
Gerd,
I put in a special cel were we grow the microprops of the lillies in tubes, it has a constant temperature all the time.
-
Martin,
They came out of the old bulbchip, but still remarkable. I do cut them in 6 to 8 pieces and the flower still survives, i must say this is a very good growing selection of "Maximus".
-
Maggi,Brian & Gerard,
Sorry, I wasn't able to reply until today because my computer had a breakdown (me too).
Thank you alltogether for your kind replies. Our heating system has no hot water tank, so I'll either use soil heating cables or I'll build a small cell in which I can control the temperature.
Gerd
-
So glad your computer is mended, Gerd, and to see your flowers again on the Forum :)
-
Instead of the first flowering, this must be the last flowering.
Some special florepleno and a view of my secret snowdrop forrest were i found the poculoform florepleno and some florepleno that are looking up like tulips. The last picture is from a hybrid i call White madness because it shows a extra petal above the ovary and a extra flower from the spathe.
-
Lovely pictures Gerard, and what a wonderful woodland. I am green with envy :-\
-
You don't have to be envy Brian, if you come to Holland next year around february, we can have a look together. Maybe some other forummember's too?