This cutting of an aurea seedling that hasn't bloomed in 4 years decided to bloom.It started out a deep orange as the bud started to open, I thought wow a deep orange aurea..well look what it did the second day!!GGRR! :-)
After 4 years........
it's still very very pretty. I'll take it off your hands since you don't like it:)
tiG the only problem is it doesn't bloom...........first flower ever.
oh I will sweet talk it every day!!! it would love me:)
Maybe the next blooms will have color? I agree... it's still pretty. What's the plant behind it? a coleus?
poppysue its an iresine plant(chicken gizzard) I have 3 kinds.Makes a good backdrop huh?? :-)
What made you hang onto it as long as you did? Four years is a long time to go without a bloom. How does the plant grow? I also think it's pretty.
I like it also, but think it is mixed up? Supposed to start out white, THEN go orange, or whatever. Maybe it will surprise you and bloom more and be a colored one. After 4 yrs. couple more months or so wouldn't hurt to wait and see.
it is pretty, and you have way more patience than me! maybe it'll get going now that it's started blooming.
I agree it is very pretty! Maybe it will finally start blooming for you now!!
I agree that is is pretty, but I would never have been able to hold it over for 4 years. Geez, by then I'd be tearing my hair out trying to figure out what to do to make it bloom. Does it have more buds on it?
I've waited two years for some, I don't know if I could wait four years though!
I've waited 3 for some of mine....just hoping someday it will have been worth it......
And I think its very pretty,I had one of Susies EP X CG crosses bloom tonite,nice shape,VERY fragrant,....but white....maybe it will change
hey Kyle,are those chicken gizzards hard to root?
I had a few 2 years ago and thought they were great...
Last year I couldn't find any!So if I find them again I want to root some to hold over the winter......
Dumb question here...is chicken gizzard the same as Magilla Perilla?
this is what mine looked like
http://www.ncfarmsinc.com/w-products/foliage/chickengizzardred.htm
Brugie Chicken gizzards are iresines..I brought some of these down for the swap earlier this month.
CC I root them in vermiculite ... sometimes in water.
I love white ones. This one has such great tendrils. 4 years is a bit long....LOL!
Never heard of Chicken Gizzards, and do not want to know how it got such a name. CC planting them all over may make your fancy chickens a little nervous. This is why I love Daves's, I learn something new all the time. A few weeks ago Brugie told me about Magilla Perilla and now I am finding them in the nurseries.
Wow! Look at these long tendrils. Is it the first Y flower? It has the same shape as the orange in Copenhagen botanical garden. I suggested an exchange, but the director wouldn`t even hear talk about it, snif, snif:( *lol* Kyle, do you think that the next flush maybe will have another color?
Okay, now I remember. Thanks CC. Your picture was easier to see and ID for me. I couldn't get past the white brug in Kyle's picture. LOL!!
Tonny, I hope it does change........I have never seen such a clear orange colored bud as it opened......I thought Yippe! it will be a nice orange...then looked the next morning and ...*%$*&* its white! LOL will keep fingers and eyes crossed. Will keep it for now..if nothing else the plant gets impressive because of the size!:-)
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Did you pollinate this one with something orange? Saved the pollen for future use? Perhaps it simply has some orange dormant that was thinking of coming through in some future seedlings.
Kyle, all orange colored buds are worth to be watched.
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Eric...I crossed it with pollen from Ver orange..our clone at work of it is very deep orange...so will see if it takes.The pollen will be saved for future use.This plant lost many buds up till this point.So may not be worth using in breeding use. :-)
Kyle,
I remember Monika once mentioned that some flowers are not getting their permanent color in its first blooming year, so even if the next flush or couple of flowers are white, so don`t give up. I have thought much about, why the Brugmansias first flower most times are different from the permanent shape and color. In reg. to the shape I am blank. Reg. the colors these are formed by several different pigments and these pigments is crucial to filtre the light that the plants uses in photosynthesis and the wavelenght determine the composition of molekyles that turn water, light and fertilizers into ie carbohydrates, vitamins, gibberellins, auxins etc. Could it be, that a new seedling create the first flower in order to test, which kind of "light-filters" (color=pigments) it will need to synthesise the nessesary processes within the cells? If (and only IF) it is so, then the first flower will either be a test of the environment in order to adjust these processes or the first flower could be vital for initiating the processes needed to put more pigments into play. Its like with a baby. It will be pale in its first time, but after several visits in the garden the pigments in the skin adjust to the sun and causes sun tan. Are you confused?