Pleione 2007

[razvan chisu]

Lovely pics everyone!
I have a few small bulbs from the AGS seed exchange. Nothing fancy, just unnamed hybrids. I was wondering how long do I have to wait for them to flower, so my question is which would be the average bulb size at flowering time?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Hi Hans !
Nice pix once more - my hookeriana doesn't seem to take the trouble to flower this year  .
For the rest, my season is over - I posted the last of my P x barbarae to flower in the flowering now thread last week....
All my pots are outside now hoping for a good season to get them really big for next season. 

Hi Razvan,
Welcome to the Pleione club !
I suppose you planted the bulbils out earlier on this year, if they respond well, you should have little bulbs of abt 0,5 cm diameter by the end of the season - no flower yet to be expected in 2008.

If they develop ok again next year, depending on the species, you could have some flowers in 2009, if not, then in 2010 for sure.

Once the leaf has developed fully, feed them some liquid tomato fertilizer every 10 days or so - that will help.

At least, that's the way I treat them.

Good growing !

[johanneshoeller]

One of my last flowering Pleiones. An excellent red, the colour on the photo is not true, it is much darker! Today we have +34°C and this is not good for most Pleiones. We expect a thunderstorm with heavy hail (like hen's egg).

Hans

[Luc Gilgemyn]

My God Hans, that's a late one !!!  It's a quite good one though - nice firy red.
I hope you got through the thunderstorms ok with not too much hail...

[johanneshoeller]

Spathoglottis ixioides, an orchid like Pleiones.

[Maggi Young]

What a strong, bright, yellow flower for such a small plant! It is only about 8 to 10 cms high, is that correct?

[johanneshoeller]

Yes, it is only about 10 cm high.

Hans

[johanneshoeller]

What is that? Will it be a flowering Pleione grandiflora??

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Very strange Hans - plants seem to loose their minds and their sence of seasons in this funny year 

[Paul T]

And here in my garden in Canberra, Australia we have buds almost showing colour on the first of the Pleiones!!  Looking forward to some of their wonderful flowers.  Looking at this thread from time to time reminds me of just how gorgeous they are!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Don't forget to show them Paul - we still have five or 6 months to go before we can enjoy our own again ! 

[Paul T]

Luc,

I'll try, just don't be expecting the wonderful and exotic types that have been posted in prior pages!!    Then again, some of the varieties I have are still pretty spectacularly coloured.

[johanneshoeller]

The first flowering Pleione praecox in autumn 2007

[Paul T]

Hans,

And this morning I discovered P. pleionioides (I think that spelling is wrong, but I'm guessing you'll know what I mean) had opened.  Forgot to photograph it unfortunately so I can't post a pic of it.  Rather cool to have your autumn species opening the same day as my spring species down here in the Southern Hemisphere. 

Up until the Pleione threads on the SRGC I hadn't realised that there were even autumn flowering species!!

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Hi Hans !
Even for a P. praecox this is verrrry early isn't it
I don't grow any autumn flowering specizes so I'm not that familiar...
Looks good though !

Paul,
Forgetting to photograph something is no excuse 
I suggest you run out right now (oop's I guess it's dark overthere now  ) - and make that picture !