Pleione 2007

[johanneshoeller]

Pleione x laggenaria (Nachzüchtung)

Hans

[David Nicholson]

Beautiful Hans.

[Paul T]

Hans,

Very nice!!

[Maren]

Lovely flowers, Hans. My equivalents are all lopsided this year, pity.

I say equivalent because I believe the name for the man made hybrid between Pln maculata and Pln praecox is Confirmation, only the natural hybrid is known as Pln x Lagenaria.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Beautiful flowers Hans - I should give these autumn flowering pleione a try - so far I haven't got any.

Maren,
Welcome to the forum and to the Pleione club ! 
Always great to find another fellow Pleione grower - We all hope to read and see more of you !! 

[derekb]

Hi Maureen glad to see you posting, the ones I had from you last year have done well thank you.
                 Derek

[Maren]

Hi
thank you for the welcome, much appreciated. Derek, I'm glad to hear that your pleiones did well. I have just started lifting mine, and I am very keen to see the results of my change in culture this season. Basically, I doubled the feed and there are some real whoppers, especially the formosana and aurita liked it, huge bulbs with 2 to 3 buds. But not all responded well eg. forrestii, so there's a lesson there.

By the way, the name is Maren. 

[Maggi Young]

In the distant days when we used to grow a lot of pleiones, we made the mistake one year of feeding them up... we got huge bulbs all right, but at the expense of flowering... lots of lovely big leaves, that's all.... so beware of going down that route, Maren!

[Paul T]

Howdy All,

I've taken some pics of others recently, but this is the only one I've processed so far.....



It's Pleione 'Tiger Fire' with it's strongly marked lip.  Has become a favourite of mine... thanks Rob!!  Apologies for the background muck.  Didn't notice it at the time obviously, and too late now to retake the photo without withered floral remains in the background. 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Don't worry about the background when you're treating us with Pleione pix Paul !
This one looks a lot like P. stromboli 'Fireball'.
Hope there's a lot more to come ! after all, we've got 5 or 6 more months to go before ours flower again.

[Paul T]

Shantung, which isn't as yellow as I had expected, but we've had hot weather and it may have faded somewhat even before it opened?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Looks good and healthy to me Paul - despite the heat !
It almost looks like a P. grandiflora colourwise.

[Paul T]

So how yellow should it be?  Is it the right colour?

[Lesley Cox]

It depends which clone you have Paul. x Shantung is a grex, i.e. all the seedlings from the cross but many seedlings have been selected and named. Some, like `Mikki' are very pale yellow and ever so slightly pinkish, others like `Ducat' or `Ridgeway' are much closer to pure yellow. `Apricot Brandy' is soft yellow and pale pink, and so on. But I've never seen one with real white like yours. Are you sure of its origins?

[Paul T]

Lesley,

I was looking at it yesterday when it was raining (well wasn't actually raining, but it was a mucky day) and the flower actually is a very pale creamy yellowy colour, not white, so there definitely is yellow parentage in it.  I was given it as 'Shantung', without any additional moniker associated with it.  I had realised that there were other 'Shantung ...... ' but assumed this was just an "original" type or parent of those etc (if you know what I mean), not realising that there wasn't actually a 'Shantung' itself.