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I still have windowsills...
Mar. 18th, 2013 09:40 amAnd here is the windowsill report:
HIPPEASTRUM GERVASE has about finished its first scape of three flowers. The second scape, of four flowers, is just opening now. Its first flower, with a lot of red, is almost fully open. The second one is starting to open, the third is in full bud and the fourth is in junior bud. I expect to see all four open along about Wednesday, and then the first one will start to fade.
OTHER HIPPEASTRUM: Four of the five bulbs I kept from the Class of 2006 have put up flower stalks. As I recall, the fifth has always been a late bloomer. So far, only one of the class of 2009 has put up a stalk. It's definitely going to be a keeper; I may select four or five others at random. Classes of 2011 and 2012 are showing low-light fatigue, with gangling stems. The same can be said of my five species hippeastrums. Mandonii and Val's papilio will need to repotted. Everybody will go out back and to hell with worries about mosaic virus.
SCHLUMBERGERA: I have way too many of the Class of 2009 and will weed them this fall. About ten of the salmon NOID x 'Madisto' seedlings look vigorous. They'll get repotted in late summer or early fall, I think, unless they have a real growth spurt. I have a couple blooms out of season -- some from a nondescript red whose leaves are more smooth-lobed than my others, and a surprise bud from 'Xmas flame,' probably something that happened because I turned the plant.
NOPALXOCHIA still looks like shit. But the cutting I took looks pretty good, so I may trash the parent plant and keep the baby. I did some recon on Dodo's Nopalxochia at the Flower Show and note that it's in a coir basket, not a pot. Point taken...
SANSEVIERIA: I have cuttings from Bill Schaffer's "J A C K" Flower Show exhibit. I potted them up today.
BASEMENT SEEDLINGS: I have swiss chard, parsley, and a 6" apple tree.
COLEUS: I'm only wintering over the ones with serious provenance now. Chris and Margaret's wedding coleus, Alabama sunset (my first), one I pinched as an anniversary souvenir, and one that grew in a neighbor's pot ("burning bush," I think) and is the one I'm actually saving because I love the way it looks.
HIPPEASTRUM GERVASE has about finished its first scape of three flowers. The second scape, of four flowers, is just opening now. Its first flower, with a lot of red, is almost fully open. The second one is starting to open, the third is in full bud and the fourth is in junior bud. I expect to see all four open along about Wednesday, and then the first one will start to fade.
OTHER HIPPEASTRUM: Four of the five bulbs I kept from the Class of 2006 have put up flower stalks. As I recall, the fifth has always been a late bloomer. So far, only one of the class of 2009 has put up a stalk. It's definitely going to be a keeper; I may select four or five others at random. Classes of 2011 and 2012 are showing low-light fatigue, with gangling stems. The same can be said of my five species hippeastrums. Mandonii and Val's papilio will need to repotted. Everybody will go out back and to hell with worries about mosaic virus.
SCHLUMBERGERA: I have way too many of the Class of 2009 and will weed them this fall. About ten of the salmon NOID x 'Madisto' seedlings look vigorous. They'll get repotted in late summer or early fall, I think, unless they have a real growth spurt. I have a couple blooms out of season -- some from a nondescript red whose leaves are more smooth-lobed than my others, and a surprise bud from 'Xmas flame,' probably something that happened because I turned the plant.
NOPALXOCHIA still looks like shit. But the cutting I took looks pretty good, so I may trash the parent plant and keep the baby. I did some recon on Dodo's Nopalxochia at the Flower Show and note that it's in a coir basket, not a pot. Point taken...
SANSEVIERIA: I have cuttings from Bill Schaffer's "J A C K" Flower Show exhibit. I potted them up today.
BASEMENT SEEDLINGS: I have swiss chard, parsley, and a 6" apple tree.
COLEUS: I'm only wintering over the ones with serious provenance now. Chris and Margaret's wedding coleus, Alabama sunset (my first), one I pinched as an anniversary souvenir, and one that grew in a neighbor's pot ("burning bush," I think) and is the one I'm actually saving because I love the way it looks.
