Culebra open bloom

here to bore you again, if i get 6 open blooms at the same time will post another pic...isn't it cool?

oh my, it's so gorgeous!!!!!! I better go talk to my baby and tell her to grow up just like her mommy.

Cool...Is it fully opened?

Wow Arlene, what a unique plant. It's beautiful.

Arlene - simply gorgeous.

Oh !!I cant wait for mine to grow in to a big culebra!!Its sooooo beautiful Arlene!

Arlene is it fragrant?

Hi, guys, this is about as open as it gets, i haven't noticed a fragrance, will check tonight. i didn't particularly want culebra, i like fast growers, but this one has grown a lot faster than i thought it would.

It is very beautiful. Gotto go and sing to mine, maybe I'd just better talk nicely to it. LOL

Arlene,

Your Culebra is just wonderful and so unusual. I'm kinda into unusual plants now so I'm watching your progress with baited breath. Great Plant!!

S.

Brugie, yours should make it by Christmas, just promise a big pot, ring with time released fertilizer like you do tomatoes (you do, don't you?).

all it.

Arlene,

Thanks, but do you think I can get it okay in the mail at that time of the year? We have been way below zero by that time in the past. Hope not this year, but just never know. So far this year we are well above average in our temperatures. Hope it holds.

Yes, I use Osmocote by the many pounds every year. Should buy stock in that company. Usually plant a couple dozen tomatoes each year too along with whatever else will fill up a garden spot that is about 50x60 ft.

Back to the Culebra, you may have to keep it for me until spring unless the weather stays nice. That would be okay with me and then you could use it for cuttings as well. Up to you. I'm just tickled pea green to be getting it from you. Be sure to keep enough postage to take care of that mailing. Okay?

Thanks so much!!

Beautiful.. I dont have any Culebra... I would love to have a cutting or seeds of it to add to my collecting.. :o) hope I will find someone else that would share it with me...

MiniSchnuz, i have a line, if you get a chance to trade for one soon, please do.

My mama has gone crazy, has 20 buds and still putting them on. i just love happy plants.

Brugman, i am having a hard time figuring out which is the stigma. the anthers and stigma aren't together, they are intermixed between leaf petals, the only one i thought i saw for sure i broke off with the q tip trying to put pollen on it.

get ready for more pics, brugman, here is your hybrid report:
white large bloom with extremely long tendrils
white versi type large blooms that do not recurve at all, first flower had six tendrils, have taken a pic of this.
white versi.... first blooms turned off white, this set is turning a very light peach.
and i told you i had no exciting pollen, didn't mean i didn't have blooms, have blooming JO/CG/DRS whatchamacallums, frosty pink opened today, versi peach hybrid, 3 other of your hybrids that are white, and ecuador pink. tried to use the ecuador pink pollen.....

I can't wait to see pictures!!!!!!!!!!

I'd be hysterical if I had that many blooming at one time,I'd be calling in sick to work!!!LOL "Hello ,Boss? ,sorry I won't be in today ,my brugs are blooming ,gotta make like a bee!!!"

CC, you are a riot. that's half my problem, i work at home on my own pace. i forgot to say, i have 5 different yellow/gold whatchamacallums blooming.....

Can't wait to see the first one you mentioned with the extremely long tendrils. Isn't this plant just a blast to watch? Always something different on each one of them.

S.

Arlene - wow, it is a cool picture you have taken there, - the best and most detailed I ever saw of a culebra on the www and in books.

I have been very curious about culebra since I read about it in the 1980`. Last month I got a cutting from France, that died, but I have been given a new chance to root one, when the cold weather wears off :)

Seeing your unique picture is an experience in it self and make me even more happy, that I am going to grow a plant similar to yours in the spring :)

Will you post more pictures of it, when in bloom again?

Tonny, forget rooting one, get one fully rooted. Sheesh. The nerve of some people sending out cuttings. Joke of course. I recieved my first Culebra as a cutting and was very pleased.

Tonny, it has at least 30 blooms on it, hope i will be able to take a pic in a week or so with it loaded. you just can't water this one when you start rooting it. i took two cuttings recently, put them under my oak trees, both in the same large pot where the soil was already moist. didn't water for three days. as soon as i saw growth i put osmocote on them, yesterday moved them to full sun.

brugman, you didn't answer my questions, i am confused about the stigma on this, so far all the hangies are swirled in with the flower petals, one i thought i might have found i broke off!
and did you read what all i have blooming????

hangies?? LOL!!! Poppy forgot that one on her diagram!!

tig, they were either stamens or antlers.. anthers.... i think but they were definitely hanging...

just teasing ya! and I'm sure things on that flower don't look like all the others, its so different from everything.

Arlene - If you can open a flower and make close-up images of the anthers/stigma parts, I can try to decipher, what is anthers and stigma and what is *lol* ... hangies :)

oh good, Tonny has a sense of humor too. You'll fit right in here!!!

went to take a pic, is just too confusing.... they are hanging between petals, this is a really flat flower, and the parts had gone brown, i think i could tell which was the stigma but i had broken off one. the hangies were mostly brown, hoping this means they will make good seed pods. anyone seen a culebra X anything cross???

Question---does each bloom only have one stigma and 4 or more anthers? I'm not one for keeping track of things, but only remember seeing one stigma on each bloom. Of course, the bifocals might need adjustment!!

Arlene - I have posted an example of how to take photos of dats and brugs flowers in a new threat, but here is, how its done ... hangers displayed, skirt removed *lol* It was hangers, right?

It was a kind of tough to do this too the flower, but I assure you, it didn`t suffer long *lol*

If you haven`t got the heart to do this to a fresh flower, then an older flower will do as well :)

tiG - Nothing is missing in Poppy`s diagram. Because hangers are new to us and in a class of itself, these deserve *lol* a diagram of an entirely different order.

Ah, Tonny, will go look again and try to take a pic......

here you go, snowhermit.

Thank you Arlene. It is so beautiful. Hope Cala sees this.

Welcome snow, and i really would like a cutting of that peachy one you mentioned the other day when it warms up...yikes where will i put them all?

I have your name on one of them Arlene. As soon as the weather warms up it will be on it's way. Supposed to be going down to below zero this week. So far we've really had a mild winter.Just hope winter does'nt hit us hard this month.