Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Heinie on December 10, 2010, 06:39:51 AM
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Here is one of my Cyrtanthus obliquus flowering now.
(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/loevenstein/Cyrtanthusobliquus.jpg)
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Heinie,
that is gorgeous!! How tall is the flower stem?
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Maren,
The stem is 552mm tall from the crown of the plant to under the flowers. The flowers are between 85 and 100mm long.
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The flowers are between 85 and 100mm long.
What a size!
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Maggie,
Yes it is huge compared to all the other Cyrtanthus species. Only the C falcatus comes close to this size. My biggest bulb is the size of a cricket ball and is growing 3 baby bulbs now which I am very excited about because it is a first one to give me some babies. This one in the photo is also growing a baby bulb.
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wow very nice
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What is the secret of getting obliquus to bloom? Mine are still unbloomed after 8 years (from seed). I'm getting a bit frustrated with them.
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Jim,
I do not know if there is a secret but the norm is to bloom at 6 to 8 years. I grow mine in full summer sun with one bulb to a 25cm pot with a very well drained growing medium and water once a week. They have a huge root ball. I leave them in the same positions during winter rain. I take off about 80mm of the top of the growing medium after each winter and replace it with coarse compost as I do with most of my bulbs. I hope yours bloom for you next season.
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only another 4 or five years for me to wait then ::)
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Lovely plant Heinie!
For some strange reason my venerable C. falcatus plant set seed this year (it has never before in 20 years...) and now I have two pots brim-full with seedlings - whatever am I going to do with them? ;)
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Heinie
beautiful, I waited for my Cyrtanthus, still nothing flower
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Here is one of my Cyrtanthus obliquus flowering now.
(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o149/loevenstein/Cyrtanthusobliquus.jpg)
Heinie - Spectacular size! And what a great form, so many I've seen photographed are ho-hum. Hope you popped the champagne for that.
johnw
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John,
I ran out of champagne because I had a second one flower since. Two of my large bulbs did not flower this year but they are producing pups at 4 on the one and 3 on the other. This is a new experience for me. The pups grow extremely fast. The flowers do not last long, about 6 to 8 days only. I will attempt to pollinate the flowers next season for the first time.