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Specific Families and Genera => Amaryllidaceae => Topic started by: Hans J on January 01, 2013, 10:10:59 AM

Title: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Hans J on January 01, 2013, 10:10:59 AM

a good start for 2013 ...here is flowering

Hippeastrum "Tango"

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: PeterT on January 01, 2013, 10:40:37 AM

Very beautifull Hans! Is 'Tango'  a selection or a hybred?

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Hans J on January 01, 2013, 10:44:49 AM

Thank you Peter  :D

so far I have out is it a hybrid ...and Hipp. cybister is involved

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: PeterT on January 01, 2013, 11:04:55 AM

Is Hippeastrum cybister in cultivation? or are there only hybrids of it?

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Hans J on January 01, 2013, 11:07:47 AM

Yes - Hipp. cybister is in cultivation
I will write you a PM

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: jshields on January 01, 2013, 01:27:58 PM

I have some cybister here too.  It grows very slowly for me and is reluctant to bloom.  My Clivia greenhouse may not be the ideal place to grow it.

Jim

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: jshields on January 07, 2013, 07:22:26 PM

What I do have blooming at the moment is this Hippeastrum aulicum var. robustum, which I received a few months ago from a friend in Southern California.

Jim

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: johnw on January 07, 2013, 10:33:28 PM

Quote from: Hans J on January 01, 2013, 10:10:59 AM

a good start for 2013 ...here is flowering Hippeastrum "Tango"

Hans  - Which species of Pleioblastus is in the background of your first picture?

johnw

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Armin on February 04, 2013, 09:21:36 AM

Hans,
'Tango' is lovely.

Here my potful 'Naranja':
-counted ~30 bulbs and daughter bulbs when dormant (M/Dec.).
-in total 15 flower stems this year. :D First flower opened M./Jan.
-up to 110 cm stem height (a little elongated due poor indoor light conditions).
-one female narcissus fly hatched.  >:( This is the second time I found infestation.

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Maggi Young on April 18, 2013, 11:26:17 AM

These Ebay offerings seem to be well thought of by PBS members - 
http://www.ebay.com/sch/komoriya_nursery/m.html?item=400466608897&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d3dab8301&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 (http://www.ebay.com/sch/komoriya_nursery/m.html?item=400466608897&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d3dab8301&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562)

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Hans J on May 28, 2013, 01:32:40 PM

new flowers are open today :

Hippeatrum "Swan Lake" ( Sonatini -Hybrid)

Hans

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Tony Willis on May 29, 2013, 11:27:50 AM

Hans

very nice

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Hans J on May 29, 2013, 12:18:45 PM

Thanks Tony  :D

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: François Lambert on May 29, 2013, 12:36:48 PM

Yes, I also have 5 of the 6 Sonatini hybrids, and I have had a beautiful display of 'helios'
still waiting for Swanlake to start growing ...

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: jshields on June 08, 2013, 10:47:52 PM

I have a good crop of seeds of Hippeastrum harrisonii from my greenhouse. I want to trade for seeds of other unusual species of Hippeastrum. Anyone interested? (Note: I do not sell! The business is closed forever.) No hybrids, please.

Hippeastrum harrisonii grows most of the year in water.  My bulbs are in pots that stand in trays of water most of the time.  This is not your typical semi-desert type of Hippeastrum species.

Jim

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Chuck on June 26, 2013, 05:59:56 AM

I just restarted my collection. So far I only have the following:
Hippeastrum blossfeldiae
Hippeastrum cybister
Hippeastrum vittatum
Hippeastrum iguazuanum (seedlings)
and two plants of Hippeastrum reticulatum var. striatifolium

Mostly adults that I fertilize. Someday they will bloom.

Title: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: pontus on July 17, 2013, 10:42:56 AM

A new summer flowering hippeastrum for me this year, a nice hippeastrum vittatum hybrid called "red fire", supposedly hardy to -5°c, but i dont think i will risk that, and will bring them inside over winter, even though i grow them in a summer border now with my crinum, eucomis and late flowering lilies!

Pontus

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: pontus on July 17, 2013, 10:44:26 AM

here it is again from another angle

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Ezeiza on July 18, 2013, 02:57:13 AM

Having grown most of the species and many hybrids, Hippeastrum bulbs freeze to mush below O C. Even X johnstonii bulbs are tender.

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: François Lambert on July 29, 2013, 10:16:48 AM

Quite unexpected, I see a seedpod maturing on my H. Sonatini Swanlake.  The bulbs were blooming inside my greenhouse, I think there was another Sonatini hybrid also flowering at the same time.  I did not pollinate the flowers as i did not expect these to be fertile, so credits are to mother nature that has taken care of making this happen.  Hopefully the seeds will be viable, I'm quite curious to see what will eventually grow from these seeds.  Will keep you posted on germination & in a few years on flowering ...

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Hans J on July 30, 2013, 11:26:14 AM

today is flowering here a really rare Hippeastrum :

Hippeastrum evansiae

Have fun
Hans

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Armin on August 06, 2013, 09:33:02 AM

'Red Fire' is lovely. :o 8)

Currently 'Naranja' is pleasing me with a 2nd. blossom 'outside'. 2 stems in flower a 3rd. emerging... :)

For comparison blossom 'inside' in bof Feb.

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: PeterT on August 07, 2013, 09:05:48 AM

wonderful Hans, it looks very happy, how long have you been growing it? Does it offset for you? mine has started to -but no flowers yet.

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: Hans J on August 07, 2013, 02:54:34 PM

Thank you Peter !

I have this plant since 2009 ( it came to me as a small offset )
Now I have one big bulb + 3 Offsets
I have it pollinatet ( my friend told me it is self fertil ) and so I wait ...

Hans

Title: Re: Hippeastrum 2013
Post by: PeterT on August 07, 2013, 09:43:04 PM

good luck Hans -
and lots of seeds!