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Bulbs => Bulbs General => Topic started by: Alex on March 12, 2011, 11:12:04 PM

Title: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: Alex on March 12, 2011, 11:12:04 PM

New season underway, here's T. cyanocrocus today.

Alex

Title: Re: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: Maggi Young on March 12, 2011, 11:15:15 PM

My word Alex, your spring season is in good flow! .... or should that be flower?  ;D

Title: Re: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: Tony Willis on March 12, 2011, 11:17:33 PM

Alex

did you keep them frost free?

Everybody I know around here did not and we have lost the lot.

Title: Re: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: Alex on March 13, 2011, 12:06:43 AM

Hi Tony,

Yes, everything is always kept a few degrees above freezing due to a previous bad experience...

Alex

Title: Re: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: PeterT on March 13, 2011, 07:55:56 AM

Tony, not everyone. We have a mutual friend whom I visited last week, with a goot pot full in an outside frame

Title: Re: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: Kirsten on March 15, 2011, 02:24:28 PM

There are many flowers in my Tecophilea cyanocrocus. But I can't get Tecophilea viridiflora to flower. It will increase every year but no flowers. Can someone help me?
Table with Tecophilea cyanocrocus.
Tecophilea violiflora

Title: Re: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: Maggi Young on March 15, 2011, 02:45:03 PM

Tecophilaea violiflora usually only has the one leaf, while the floral stem has a few little flowers ..... you potful all look to have two leaves.... I wonder if something has gone wrong to cause the bulbs to make more foliage at the expense of flowers?

Title: Re: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: Hans A. on March 15, 2011, 03:21:28 PM

Marvellous plants Alex and Kirsten!
I agree with Maggi, leaves look something strange for this species - here a picture I took last weekend of Tecophilaea violiflora, apologies for the bad quality.

Title: Re: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: Michael J Campbell on March 15, 2011, 05:50:58 PM

My Tecophilaea have just poked their noses above the soil in the last week, seedlings have also appeared in the last couple of days. I thought I head lost the lot.

Title: Re: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: Ezeiza on March 15, 2011, 07:13:31 PM

Kirsten, T. violiflora comes from a warmer region than cyanocrocus. T. violiflora can be grown well like one would a Cape bulb.

Title: Re: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: johnw on March 16, 2011, 02:53:31 AM

Quote from: Kirsten on March 15, 2011, 02:24:28 PM

There are many flowers in my Tecophilea cyanocrocus. But I can't get Tecophilea viridiflora to flower. It will increase every year but no flowers. Can someone help me?
Table with Tecophilea cyanocrocus.
Tecophilea violiflora

Good grief white Tecophileas! I had no idea, even some kissed blue.  How did I manage to miss those?

johnw

Title: Re: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: Kirsten on March 16, 2011, 03:22:10 PM

Quote from: Maggi Young

Tecophilaea violiflora usually only has the one leaf, while the floral stem has a few little flowers ..... you potful all look to have two leaves.... I wonder if something has gone wrong to cause the bulbs to make more foliage at the expense of flowers?

You are right it has two leaves. I got it from Gothenburg Botanical Garden, I will ask them if they have an explanation next time I see them.

Title: Re: Tecophilaea 2011
Post by: Lesley Cox on March 16, 2011, 08:42:32 PM

Quote from: johnw on March 16, 2011, 02:53:31 AM

Quote from: Kirsten on March 15, 2011, 02:24:28 PM

There are many flowers in my Tecophilea cyanocrocus. But I can't get Tecophilea viridiflora to flower. It will increase every year but no flowers. Can someone help me?
Table with Tecophilea cyanocrocus.
Tecophilea violiflora

Good grief white Tecophileas! I had no idea, even some kissed blue.  How did I manage to miss those?

johnw

Well I was thinking green, but that's probably even more unlikely. :-\