Tim, The crinum are beautiful, and so is that nice staghorn hanging on the wall above. Mike San Diego On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 7:40 AM Tim Eck via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > My favorite crinum is blooming already because I brought it into the heated > sunroom in January. I like this one because it makes multiple upright > bloomstalks that remain upright until seeds ripen, it has attractive > recurved petals with white throats and it refuses to offset after ten years > or more. > Some think the object is to have a lot of offsets to sell or give away but > I was specifically trying to breed a display plant that would have > attractive, even statuesque, foliage and bloom rather than a weedy patch > with a blob of color. Admittedly, it looks a bit gangly in the greenhouse > but not so in higher light. Most of the time crosses are pretty much what > you expect, but sometimes they come out a lot better than you deserve. > This is one of those. > I will try to chip this plant in a year or so after I am confident in my > technique and equipment. One of the attached images is my heater for the > chipping chamber. I made it from two flood lights wired in series to keep > them at a safe orange glow. I have it sitting on a lower shelf of a free > standing wire shelf unit and the heating unit thermister in the plastic > shoeboxes above with the chips and medium. At first I tried it with the > thermister in the vermiculite but the temperature swings were much greater > than when I put it in the air above the medium. Since you aren't even > supposed to look at them for six weeks, I just wrapped the shelves in a > blanket and plastic and monitor the temperature with a weather sensor > transmitter. > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: 20220227_085011 copy.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 165930 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: favorite crinum copy.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 115189 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: favorite crinum cross copy.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 188501 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > > > _______________________________________________ > 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>
