Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: BULBISSIME on June 30, 2011, 10:32:41 PM
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My first flowers from this beautiful bulb.
I hope I'll get seeds ;)
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Exquisite Fred
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What a wonderful exhibit :o :o
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always nice to see this very beautiful flower....I have one also but only young so have a while to wait for flower, but rest assured when it does I will post a pic
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Fantastic Fred; how old is your plant?
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Rogan, I don't exactly know how old is it as I bought it adult...
I suppose about 5 to 6 years ....
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Fred, would you mind posting a picture of the entire plant in the pot? I would love to see how big it is!?
So beautiful, the freckles of blue are astonishing.
Very closely related to the genus Griffinia which also has such beautiful blue coloring which is quite rare in Amaryllids! Do you grow your plant in sphagnum moss or a very aerated mix? Sadly my Worsleya was plummeted by harsh hail which left it level with the rest of the pot.
Josh
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That is beautiful Fred. What is the diameter of a flower please?
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Heinie,
flower is about 12 cm diameter.
Josh,
here is the required picture
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The pot looks quite small Fred, - do you feed it much?
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at least once a week with very small amount of fertilizer.
But the pot is not so small... 30 cm high
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Thankyou Fred, I think the plant is very big though!
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Fred,
Absolutely stunning! It's nice to see a picture of the full plant, it gives you more perspective!
By the way, I don't think these plants need incredibly large pots, they grow in pockets of matter on the side of 70 degree granite slopes.
Thanks!
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:o - Fantastic plant! - seems a very wide range of 'bulbous' plants feel at home france! :D
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Especially Bulbi's home ;D
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Very nice flower.
I have also a Worleya for several years now, I think the bulb is also so big that it can flowering, but how...
In my collection I have different Amaryllidaceae, most will flowering , but this one ???????
do you give this bulb a special treatment, such as watering, temp, light?
I am living in the Netherlands, and my Worsleya is standing in a warm greenhouse. Temp. at night 18 celcius and now in summer max 25 Celcius.
In winter the temp is than max 20 Celcius.
Must I give this Worsleya a cold period and no watering or so ?
Can you give me some advice, please?
Thank you very much
kind regards
Ton Wijnen
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Hy Ton,
Being no expert in Worsleya (I dont even have one) I can tell you that somewhere I read that It lives in Hills, facing the sun, with big oscilations of Temp. between night and day. And out of the ubication in Brasil, I think that 25C wont be enough for it to behave normally.
I am sure that you will get a better answer soon by someone growing it. But I hope it helps a little.
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Mine didn't start flowering until it got about a dozen leaves but has since flowered every year, the flowering stem making a very evident bulge in the pseudo-stem as it grows.
One thing I have noticed with pictures of greenhouse-grown Worsleya is that they often appear to be out of character - the leaves look floppy and the pseudo-stem itself seems to get very tall in proportion to the apparent size of the plant. My own plant, and pictures such as those from Glen Calcott or Ron Redding, shows a much more compact habit. To me that suggests light levels can be a little low under glass, but it may also be a temperature thing.
There isn't a dormant period. Even in winter, where mine can experience overnight temperatures around 5 or 6 Celsius, growth continues. I wouldn't refrain from watering at any period - provided your growing medium is sufficiently fast-draining there shouldn't be a problem. Watering in the winter certainly doesn't seem to inhibit flowering.
For me this is a robust and fairly easy plant. At times I fertilise quite heavily and also water very freely - the free-draining and non-retentive nature of the potting medium stops water from hanging around and makes it easy to flush excess fertiliser.
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Same advice as Rob Ton !
I water it every 2 days, planted in mixed gravel, pine bark and some peat, full sun afternoon, outside after frozen time to next frozen period ( mean from May to end of september here )