I recently purchased several L. viridiflora from Annies (Richmond, CA), the plants on sale had leaves that ranged from pure green to very heavily spotted with purplish spots. All were in bud a month ago, and the ones I brought home are just starting to open flowers. Robert in San Francisco, where wetting rains have finally started On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 4:25 PM Johannes-Ulrich Urban via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Dear All, > > Thank you very much for your comments on my pictures of Lachenalia > viridiflora. It looks as if I would need Graham Duncan‘s book on > Lachenalia...... > > If the flowering time is so different for Lachenalia viridiflora and > Lachenalia vanzyliae, I would think that my plants should be viridiflora. I > am surprised that they flower so early because in general my Lachenalia > flower in spring. This genus is relatively new to me. > The flowers in both the spotted and plain green leaved forms look the same. > > Bob, do you fertilize your seedlings? If you grow them in pure perlite > they may be starved. Another important point to get them to flowering size > quickly is to keep them green in spring as long as possible by very > carefully watering and cool growing conditions and also potting on. I > described my growing technique in one of the past issues of the Bulb Garden > in detail. > > Bye for now, > > Uli > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>