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Pleione 2024

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Graham Catlow:
Hi,
I wonder if anyone in the UK is still growing Pleione forrestii. Mine eventually faded away and no one I know has any either. If you have any and would be willing to sell me have one please let me know.
Please send me a PM.

MarcR:
Tim & ruweiss,

                                              NICE!

Tim Harberd:
Hi Marc,
      It was a funny year here. ... I spent so long looking for trouble (virus) that I didn't enjoy the flowers that much!

      I'll endeavour to post more photos next year....

      Meanwhile: Following on from the 'Experiment' post: Just harvested about 95 bulbils. Total weight 14g. None of the 4 pots were remarkably better or worse than the others. My feeling is that it wasn’t a particularly good growing year, for pleiones or just about anything else either!

The planted bulbils were of a fairly uniform size, the harvested ones are not! I weighed the best 10 at 4g, which means those ones have roughly quadrupled in weight.

I’ll replant the lot, in four pots of fresh compost, and weigh them again next year …. I wonder how long it will take to get a flower!

Tim DH

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