Bulbs: Clivias anyone?, 0 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
The climate here inside should be perfect for them then Dale, now find room for all those plants! I might grow them until I see which ones I want and sell or trade the rest. The seed is from a well variegated plant, but the Chinese consider if hte leaves don't stand up it is slightly inferior. They are 500mm long leaves!

Might the plant at the college have been C caulescens? I bought one seed from chilterns for over £2, it wasn't a good one!

http://www.cliviasociety.org/clivia_caulescens.php

I did get 2 sees of C nobilis, they are both growing, the second to germinate is slow to make leaves but looks good.

I also got 2 seeds from the same Chinese seller of a 'poorly' variegated Monk, with 450mm long leaves and 125mm wide. The amazing thing about it was it had 52 flowers on one stem, larger seeds too, both germinated and are robust. The stem was 60mm in diameter. I want to try cross breeding the two.

The one at the back was last to germinate, but grew so quickly the root and leaves appeared overnight so to speak,