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Regelian

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Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
« Reply #15 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.
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Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
« Reply #16 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 !
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Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
« Reply #17 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.
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Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
« Reply #18 on: August 16, 2011, 01:27:06 PM »
in this days is open a new Gloriosa for me :

Gloriosa greenii

Have fun  8)
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Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
« Reply #19 on: August 16, 2011, 07:23:15 PM »
Hi Hans

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

Angie :)
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Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
« Reply #20 on: August 16, 2011, 08:14:09 PM »
Hi Angie ,

I know it ...you would like it  :)

Hans
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Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
« Reply #21 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?
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Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
« Reply #22 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
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Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
« Reply #23 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
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Re: Gloriosa & Co 2011
« Reply #24 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?).

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