Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Spring Epis # 2, 1 by WNYwillieB

WNYwillieB wrote:
Selene: Why should I suffer and go broke all alone!! Besides, I always share good links/news like that. I had a feeling that with only 100+ cuttings to offer, they would go FAST! So, we needed to be at the ready, if we were to get any of the bounty!

Nice red, Sunshinesw! I have (have had) an Ackermanii??, but hasn't bloomed in years, plus, I didn't label those, as when I got them from the GH locally. Not to mention, I treated them horribly way back then.

They were labeled simply "Red," "Magenta," "Yellow," etc., so I don't know if I still have any reds in one of several unlabeled epi pots, or if it is gone! I am guessing they were all Ackermanii hybrids.

I figured with names like those, I wouldn't confuse them when they were blooming. Now, I wonder which variety they are.

The GH where I got them used to have (and pardon me here) a couple of very nice, but very elderly ladies who (I think were owners?) used to tend all the "stock plants" and make all the cuttings. I haven't seen them around lately, so I am guessing (hoping) they finally retired!

This was before I knew anything about just how many epi hybrids there were out there!

I got these when I was first getting into plants, and had just constructed the GH addition on the house.

Scan of an old photo from 1992-ish.