Dell, I don't really know what its hardiness is but I suspect it's marginal for me in 6B. That's another reason to chip it so I have clones to test for hardiness. And it is fragrant if stinky counts as fragrant. Tim On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 2:37 PM ds429 via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > It's great, Tim ! Is it hardy for you and is it fragrant? > Dell > West Virginia, Zone 6? On Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 10:40:03 AM EST, > 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> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
