Here it is what I have been waiting for out of all these seedlings I figured I should get a good one ! Going to have to use my other camera later to get a better shot! Yiipppeee!
Finally!
How long of a wait has it been? Its so pretty.
wow! that is an awesome first bloom! and to think that it can actually get better with age. woo hoo!
is that orange? fragrance? seedling of?
Thanks! I usally bought seed either by 100 or 500 lots my tagging efforts failed tried ice cream sticks they rotted I did by some different seed like handful of butterrfly gold orange special threw the years I have bought all kinds of seed 95 % came from thailand so who knows I had maybe a doz or more flower last year nothing like this heres another one nothing like this though
Thanks that pink is way better than the photo shows I don't know why it captured it so light color
Started off like this
ended up like this
Has a very spicey scent
For some reason there really blooming good this year we are in a drout right now you know its bad when the weeds in the pots are dieing
Nice job! I have some seedlings that are probably a year to 18 mos away from blooming, can;t wait to see what I get.
I don't know if I can get this to show, its in my Photobucket album and I forgot how to post photos from there to here because I have not done it in over a year. But this is a plant I grew from a seedling. I named it 'Vampire Moon'.
I can't get it to show, sorry
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gothqueen - just post the link just like this.
http://picasaweb.google.com/ThePlumerian/PrintSelectionMar2009#5321629211758070066
Very nice seedling, Dana! I ended up giving away and selling all my seedlings. I had some huge six year olds that were lanky, and I was tired of waiting for them to bloom. I had some bloom that were inferior flowers or poor growth habit, and I just used them as root stock. Others bloomed that were just okay, and I gave those to friends. The one or two that were really nice, I planted. I'm done with growing out seedlings though. I'll leave that to others with more time, room, and patience than I have!
I hear that! i will not grow anymore seeds either I have enough seedlings here to last me next 4-5 years to come It will be fun as they flower as you said inferior flowers will leave But if I can get a few decent looking it was worth it to me this is a seedling to nothing special but it can stay
Let me try again
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/Bihai/DSCN5312.jpg
worked that time.
That's my seedling that took about 4 years to finally bloom, from unknown parents...'Vampire Moon'
Yes it was quite a surprise. The only thing I know about its parentage is that 'one of the parents was red'. I have another that bloomed from the same set of seeds. It has a yellow bloom with a white center that is edged with red, only the very thinnest albomargination of red. I never got a good photo of it unfortunately. Maybe this year. I named that one 'Vampire Moon'.
So my best guess is that one parent was red, and one may have been yellow.
Vampire Blood's petals have a sheen that glistens in the sun. In person its really really pretty. Almost iridescent.
This ones looking better and better to me I think this was from seeds of orange sunny I have quite a few with the same looks as this when you buy the seeds they usally gave 20-25 seed the long wait is over finally some flowers
another one i have never seen one with a sheen like Goth's very pretty
Aztec Gold doing good!
very nice!
Just starting
another one just starting
Last one!
I really love that orange one!
How long did it take from seed?
Proably 3 years or more can't be in any kind of hurry
Very pretty, Dana and Goth. Both of your pinks (the one with the sheen) look like they could be the seedlings of 'Key West Pink,' which is a nice pink with a yellow center and very green pediuncles. That's just an observation, not an indentification, of course:-)
Dana, your orangey one is very reminesent of 'Kimo.' It's lovely. I love my 'Kimo.'
Goth, seedlings have a large amount of chromosomes like human beings, from what I understand, so they can have traits of the parents or no traits of the parents if they were pollinated by a insect with a long probascus, tranferring the pollen between two different plumerias. However, if a flower self-pollinated by shaking or by the wind, then there is a good likelihood that it will look similar to the only parent, especially if there is a history of self-pollination in the lineage. It is amazing that you can sow all the seeds from one pod from the same parent and get many different-looking flowers from the same pod. Florida Colors Nursery has practiced this for years.
I don't buy plants from the nursery you have been referring to, I'm sorry, but I am not a fan. I bought from them twice in the past, and both times, I got cuttings that already had rot on them when they arrived. They replaced them, and it was the same thing...cuttings with obvious soft spots, etc. This has been about 5-6 years ago, perhaps they are better now. But I tend to stay away once something like that happens.
Yes, I suppose plumeria are like many other plants that do not come true from seed. I have been growing anthuriums from seed over the past few years, and the same is true of them. As another person who raises them put it once..."They are very promiscuous". He meant, of course, that they are easily pollinated either by their own selves or any other anthurium that happens to be growing in the vicinity. Its possible to get some pretty cool spontaneous crosses sometimes, I have a few in my greenhouse now that are peculiar only to me and my collection as far as I know.
AT present I have a tray of about 18 anthurium pedatoradiatum seedlings that may be 100% pedatoradiatum, or may have crossed with any of 6-7 other anthuriums in the vicinity of the mother plant that produced the seeds. Just have to wait and see, but, waiting is part of the fun!
Clare your right wonder if this is a seedling of Kimo in the next 3 flower cycles lets see if it changesThis is a tree I lost this winter its coming back barley
Goth, I've been buying from Florida Colors Nursery for the past 7 years, and they have always sent me quality cuttings or grafts. After the first year, however, I always spent the extra few dollars to get grafted plants so I wouldn't have to wait for the rooting process. I think if you will try again that you will be pleased. They traveled to Thailand to get those variegated plants. Luc and Carol are actually really great people. If you call them when you place your order and tell them your concerns, I'm sure they will make sure that your plants are carefully chosen in any case. Sometimes soft spots can develop in transit after cutting, especially if they are subjected to moisture beforehand. The cuttings that I have gotten from Thailand sometimes have soft spots, but they developed after cutting and shipping.
Thanks for your explanation about anthuriums. It sounds like you are very knowledgeable about growing plants. I hope you don't have to wait as long for anthurium seedlings to bloom compared to plumeria seedlings!
To be frank, plumeria seedling flowers never change that much once they bloom the first time for me, but I'm not discounting that conditions in which a seedling was kept in can influence the first bloom just an an indoor plumeria will bloom very light and without much color and a greenhouse bloom will be very intense with color. I know the seedlings' first bloom doesn't change at all for my friend Kukiat in Thailand. In Thailand, they cull after the first bloom if it looks like another plumeria or isn't anything special. If the conditions are stable, the blooms should look the same every year. However, say the first bloom is during an especially cool period or even indoors. Then the bloom is likely to be pale in comparison to what it would look like normally. Low energy of a plumeria will influence the appearance of the first bloom. I think this is how it came to be that people expect the first bloom to change.
Dana, sorry about your loss. I've lost a few over the winter as well -- not this past winter but the winter before that. It does look like it is coming back. I would cut off all the rotten wood above that growing node,and let the sun dry up and callouse the top.
Clare I worried for you all the work you did and if it had got to cold for you it would have been bad I am glad all is good with you:) We are getting the first rain in a long time heat its in the 90's every day Tampa bay water is already 86 degrees this is going to be a bad summer for storms at the rate its going
i too have recv'd cutting in the mail that made me exclaim upon opening the package, "are these ppl actually serious, sending me these whacked out cuttings!?!" (this was not from florida colors though.) i soon found out that things can go bump in the night during transit in a dark box. i only order grafted from fcn. i figure why not pay a couple of bucks more to get it grafted. luc has even replaced grafts when i told him it was my fault for them rotting. i was totally expecting to pay since it was my fault.
I get my grafted plants and cuttings on ebay. I have never had any problems with rot or anything. I paid more for some then others my Diamond Locket was the most expensive it was 40$ with the shipping. Others around 18$ all came with phytosanitary certification. Going through ebay you have buyer protection.
So true thats what I have done but one thing now when it blooms and that purples white its not your eyes lol
yipppee colors changeing! more orange not my better camera but night was falling and had to hurry :)
They are really blooming now best year yet!
