Clivia 'Vico Yellow'
J.E. Shields (Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:44:28 PDT)

Hi all,

I received five of the little plantlets with their roots in clear medium
from Steve Vinisky in 1998. In September 1999, all 5 were still alive and
healthy. The first plant bloomed in April 2002. I don't know how long it
took to get the t.c. explants to the size plantlets that I received; if I
had to guess, I'd hazard about 3 years.

I currently have only one survivor, and the losses were due to heavy summer
rains for several years in a row, before I had an all-weather
greenhouse. This caused various rots and fungal infections of the mature
plants. Leaving valuable Clivia plants outdoors in the weather in summer
is apparently not a good idea in this part of the country. I had similar
misfortunes with other clivia plants over those same summers, so it's not
something specific to 'Vico Yellow'. It was the miserable weather here.

I have one scape on the surviving plant of 'Vico Yellow' (t.c.) at the
moment. I intend to pollinate those blooms shortly. I have a few
seedlings from those early Vico blooms, but none are anywhere near blooming
size yet. My t.c. plantlets grew to bloom size within 4 years of my
receiving them, but they got a LOT of T.L.C. The seedlings from the Vico
plants have been rather slower growing; but they don't get much, if any,
T.L.C.!

Regards,
Jim Shields
in central Indiana (USA)

At 02:13 PM 3/24/2008 -0700, you wrote:

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