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Title: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Hans J on July 22, 2011, 05:35:58 PM

In this time flowering here some of my Gloriosa ,Littonia ( now also Gloriosa ) and Sandersonia :

Gloriosa superba 'Lutea'
Gloriosa superba 'Rothschildiana'
Gloriosa modesta ( earlier Littonia )

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Hans J on July 22, 2011, 05:38:23 PM

Also nice in this time is

Sandersonia aurantiaca

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: David Nicholson on July 22, 2011, 06:43:55 PM

Very nice Hans.

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Hans J on July 22, 2011, 06:52:56 PM

Thank you David !

I hope that I can show in some time also other forms of G.superba

Hans

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 25, 2011, 08:53:18 AM

Hans,
very nice pics of some nice African flowers.
When did littonia become a Gloriosa!  :o
Has anyone tried hybridising them?
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Hans J on July 25, 2011, 09:12:19 AM

Hi Fermi ,

Thank you  :)

I have found this information on PBS :
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Littonia

I have never heard that anyone has hybrised this plants ....

Hans 8)

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: fermi de Sousa on July 25, 2011, 09:29:47 AM

Quote from: Hans J on July 25, 2011, 09:12:19 AM

I have never heard that anyone has hybrised this plants ....

Well, I guess you have the opportunity now! ;D
cheers
fermi

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Hans J on July 25, 2011, 09:33:49 AM

....may be the bees have worked for me ?

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: angie on July 26, 2011, 11:20:27 PM

Hans like your Gloriosa modesta  8)

Angie :)

 

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Hans J on July 27, 2011, 06:36:03 AM

Angie :

I have each year seeds of Gloriosa modesta ....if you interestet please write me

Hans

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Maren on July 27, 2011, 01:52:09 PM

My Gloriosa rotschildiana flowered very nicely, but not for long, and now the snails are eating the foliage. will it flower again later in the year? should I cut back the foliage? does it produce new flowering stems every year?

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Ezeiza on July 27, 2011, 01:56:14 PM

Snails will not only eat your plant, they can also infect it with a virus caught from a any weed they had fed on before.
Do not cut the foliage back. No, the "bulb" will fatten from what is available this year and next year stem will depend on what the plant obtains this season.

There are several very effective snail baits.

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Regelian on July 30, 2011, 11:41:53 AM

Alberto,

this is interesting with the snails.  I hadn't considered that they would also be major virus vectors.  I tend to thing of sucking insects, such as aphids and company.  Are they a problem with Irids, as well?

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Ezeiza on July 30, 2011, 03:27:52 PM

They act as virus vectors with ANY plant, Jamie. Their feeding habit implies damaging tissues. This way they carry infected sap to all plants they feed on.

Another reason not to maintain virused plants in one's collection.

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Hans J on July 30, 2011, 04:00:43 PM

Jamie ,

after my experience are many Gloriosa virused  >:(

I have received Rothschildiana from a friend ...virused
I have bought G.greenii ...virused

My self sown G.modesta is virus free  :D

My Gloriosa's are in my greenhouse ...there are no snails !

I would be from other growers of Gloriosa if they have a similar experience  :-[

Before some weeks I had a talk with the owner of a good nursery ...he tells me too that the most Gloriosa's are virused ...sigh...

Hans

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Regelian on July 30, 2011, 04:40:37 PM

Hans,

then seeds are, once again, the way to go.  Too bad Gloriosa sps are rarely offered as seed.  I've occaisionally seen rothschildiana varieties offered, but not recently.

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Hans J on July 30, 2011, 05:09:15 PM

Jamie ,

I think the problem is that we not know when we buy seeds if they comes from virused plants or not .

Those cultivars ( like Rothschildiana ,carsonii,greenii and other ) are all Gloriosa superba ...and the nursery people multiplicate always the same clones ...

A much better way is to buy seeds from wild sources ( p.e. Silverhill Seeds or African Bulbs ) -they offer regulary G.superba seeds

My plants of G.modesta comes from AGS + NARGS ....but this plants are maybe propagatet generativ .

A friend of me has bought Gloriosa tubers ( different cultivars ) from a nursery in UK ...all was virused !

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Ezeiza on July 30, 2011, 05:32:12 PM

Jamie, they use the same knife to cut the tubers over and over. And if you have virused sap in your hands you infect all the others you handle.

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Hans J on August 16, 2011, 01:27:06 PM

in this days is open a new Gloriosa for me :

Gloriosa greenii

Have fun  8)

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: angie on August 16, 2011, 07:23:15 PM

Hi Hans

You will be pleased with that Gloriosa, the flower is lovely  8)

Angie :)

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Hans J on August 16, 2011, 08:14:09 PM

Hi Angie ,

I know it ...you would like it  :)

Hans

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: meanie on August 19, 2011, 12:24:02 AM

That G.greenii is magnificent!

My G.superba produced lots of flowers this year, but they were all on short stems and the vines did not reach over 1.4metres.
However, the pot blew over a few days ago exposing some of the tubers - each of the exposed tubers has produced two offsets, when in previous years they have only ever produced one offset. All very strange.....

Could I trouble you to explain a little more about the virus symptons?

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Maggi Young on August 19, 2011, 11:56:45 AM

Thought this mind be a good time to  remind Folks about the Virus topic on the Pacific Bulb Society Wiki:
http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Virus

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Hans J on October 10, 2011, 10:09:38 AM

I can offer now seeds of

Sandersonia aurantiaca
Gloriosa ( Littonia ) modesta

If anybody is interestet please send me a PM

Hans

Title: Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
Post by: Darren on October 25, 2011, 03:09:22 PM

You may be interested to know that Plant World seeds in Devon UK have just sent out their catalogue - it lists seed from yellow and red forms of Gloriosa (superba?).