Seems like I've been waiting for this to finally open for over a month now,but it's open now.
Zami Z flower finally opens..
wow, tropicman, CONGRATULATIONS!
Okay, humor me....what is it?
Zamioculcas Zamiifolia - aka 'ZZ Plant', right?
Cool~~have never seen one in bloom!
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That's pretty neat Don! Congrats!!
Thanks yes,zz plant.No fragrance that I can tell,have the worst cold of my life at the momment.
Well then..you couldn't tell anyway...LOL!
How unusual and how very pretty!!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks. I did a search for zami z, but it didn't yield anything. LOL! Now I know why.
Sorry Brugie,didn't know how to spell it, less lone pronounce it!!!
Tropicman, that is spectacular.
I have two ZZ's , one is pretty adult, can hardly wait
to see my bloom
That's okay Don. We would make each other, good company.
I love this plant!! It is really showy and never has a bug problem.
I keep one at work and it is growing like crazy. It has been flowering continuously since fall and has just started a new growth cycle. As size comparison see the dollar bill.
Btw the flowers are not scented.
here is the "inside" of my ZZ
RUK, all I can say is Wow! I have one of these too but not that big. It is huge. You have a great looking plant there. I wonder how long it will take for mine to get that big? Anyway, great looking plant.
Tropicman, thanks for sharing your pic with us. I've never seen a bloom on one before. I hope mine will do that some day.
JesseK
I started out with a smallish pot about 4 years ago. I must say, I don't observe the cultural notes on that plant, which usually tell you to keep it on the dry side.This plant gets indirect good light, watered 3 times a week and fertilized during growth cycles. But is quite pot- bound, so there is no problem overwatering it by accident.
Tropicman, that flower is large!! And JesseK, yours will bloom too!!
ZZs are really neat, I love the "ancient" look.
Do they make seed too? Cool looking plant there on the window ledge.
You know, a while ago one of the flowers looked like it was setting seeds. I took some home, but they were sterile/nonfunctional/ didn't germinate. I was hoping that perhaps a fly had found its way and had pollinated the contraption.
ZZs are actually fairly easy to propagate. Once somebody broke a piece off my plant, so I rooted the individual small leaves. That works very well. I wound up with some very cute babies. ( still have one) Sometimes these small leaflets form a brown callous, while they are still attached, from people rubbing past them. When these are planted, this callous develops into a brown tuber, new shoots emerge from that.
RUK, how do you root the cuttings? Do you use only a leaf or the stems? I would like to propigate mine. Let me know how you did yours so I can do that to mine too.
JesseK
Wow ruk yours is quite huge a third bigger than mine,never had a problem with just watering once a week,soil is always moist.
JeeseK, I tried the stem, that didn't work for me.
I simply pinched off some leaves, dipped them into Rootone and planted the leaves into regular potting soil about an inch deep. Take a look at Moonglow's endeavors, looking at this picture yesterday, I was impressed.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/61651/
This will make it clear.
I should also mention, it took several months for a nice size callous to form. But it is worth
the wait.
Tropicman, since you keep your plant moist too, in a couple of years it will take over your house....
Thanks,its taken over one window now!!!
Its the easiest plant you'll ever grow,thats for sure.
Tropicman, I went to Target today and they have ZZ plants there. About 5" tall. $14.99!
Thanks,they are starting to become more frequent around here for retail.
Not many of the nursery buisness around here are big in the houseplant or tropical plants.
So expensive for the tiny ones...I guess because they take forever to grow. Mine are already big when I got them. I had no idea what they were, of course. But they come cheap in Hawaii. (For airfare and shipping, there's Master Card. ZZ plants, a different story.) lol.
Ah! Priceless!!! LOL!
Altho mine seems to have grown fairly fast,faster than some palms that I've grown.
Tropicman: Please share a picture of another view of your ZZ, with the kind of weather we are having, I would enjoy seeing a full view picture of it. That is if you don't mind.
I don't like winter. I am ready to start planting and working outside.
Linda
Isn't there a red one? That is what I'd like to have.
No, there is not, yet.
Hmm, Brugie can you mess around with that? Cross-pollinate with a red, compatible Arum? ( google...) You people are doing wonderful things in the Brug forum.
ruk, there's something really contagious in the brug forum. here i am, a newbie with plants and all, and i visit there....next thing you know i want to start brug seedlings and i haven't even seen a brug in bloom up close!
the zz plant is something though. so beautiful, and the FLOWER is just wow.
yes, that forum is totally contagious, I agree.
I always had a large mass of white Datura growing against the house-wall, but last summer I started growing a pretty Brug on my deck, received some cuttings in a trade, went shopping at logees.com and here I am trying to keep them going over the winter. Have some in the garage and some in the greenhouse.
Darn, sorry to hear about no red ZZ. I'll stick to hybridizng with brugs and let you guys handle the ZZ's. LOL! Would make a rich person out of someone if it could be done.
hopefully, next season i will have seeds and plants to trade. if my zz plants make it, i will have many to give away.
i have family in joisey, but they may be retiring here in cali also.
happy gardening everyone.
Hi Linda,here is a pic of ZZ,in a 3 gal pot.
Here's a pic of a new flower just starting.
