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I am about a year away from (hopefully) flowering a whole crop of fairrieanum. 7 out of 25 druryi seem to have made it through to survival. I’d be happy to flower 20 of his Brachypetalums!
Which 20? Lol lol lol. No not even my hoarder-tending self would venture that. Those critters are pretty much a landscaping feature! But I do love them…
Sorry to hear that. I bet he’d hold purchases for you if something was essential… that vini flask is a temptrix for sure…
Yes the vini flask are tempting! I got a flask of it and they grow like they are on steroids!
A couple of complex crosses with low germination and I finally got some wardii back from the lab. My FCC wardii was cursed (tried three separate pods with it), this is my second best one selfed. I have a lot of wardii, my second best is pretty darn good, I'll take it.Wow whatcha got cooking’?
Ended up with six flasks, I am tempted to grow them all out but that might be a bad idea...That’s interesting. The only delenatii I have bloomed is a vini. My others grow very slowly, no buds.
I’m curious what happened with your best plant’s pods? Are you giving up? What about crossing it with your second, or making it a pollen parent? I have a weird wardii in spike now. Probably nothing super special; came in a “compot”‘ of one tiny rooted seedling and two rootless teeny tiny deflasked nonentities; two years later, they’re all still alive. The spiking plant is barely 5 inches across and is spiking out of a secondary growth that’s climbing halfway up the stem of the seedling, which seems to have a stalled bud down in the crown…then there’s a third new growth appearing out of the spiking growth, climbing yet further! I don’t know wardii at all, I just liked the leaves. I know it’s not a good idea but I still pounce sometimes on eBay adventures when I’m bored. Guess we’ll see about the flower.A couple of complex crosses with low germination and I finally got some wardii back from the lab. My FCC wardii was cursed (tried three separate pods with it), this is my second best one selfed. I have a lot of wardii, my second best is pretty darn good, I'll take it.
Comedy of errors. I don't even remember what happened to the first two, third one got contaminated, plant started to die on the fourth attempt and I think it managed to complete the process. Everything I made with the pollen was subject to some misadventure, seemed fertile enough just bad luck getting plants out. Such is life.
Grow them all!!!!A couple of complex crosses with low germination and I finally got some wardii back from the lab. My FCC wardii was cursed (tried three separate pods with it), this is my second best one selfed. I have a lot of wardii, my second best is pretty darn good, I'll take it.
