Last Seedling Blooms for 2006

Two years worth of waiting for this seedling to bloom....

FYI for newbies, many seeds product unimportant white blooms, some start off white and turn an OK color but look just like many that are already out there and then once in a great while there is one that makes our hearts sing.

This picture was taken at 11:15 AM. It was covered by leaves and I was watching another bud on the same plant and didn't see it at first.

Will it color up? Although one of the tendrils look a tad pink in the small picture, if you enlarge it you will see it is solid white. Will it be worth keeping? 24 hours should tell the story. I've promised myself not to stay up around the clock to keep tabs on this one, like I did the prior seedling bloom.

Judy

Here she is at 7:30 PM. There is a slight chance that she may be a "Fancy Pants", meaning a little Southern girl who thinks she's sumpin'.



This message was edited Nov 15, 2006 7:59 PM

Good luck!! I will be crossing my fingers for you!
Caren

One more picture for tonight... isn't she small!!

One more and I promise this is the last.... notice how deeply she's cut

Aw Judy, go ahead and stay up all night. We want to see pictures of that beauty every hour on the hour. Pretty. Does it smell as good as it looks.

Maybe she will really surprise you and become a Southern Belle before it is all over. LOL! Hope she makes you a happy camper.

Yall, I'm happy just to get this far with her and be able to see the bloom.

Jim - the last time I was up all night and didn't have good sense the next day, but that one had long tendrils and ended up with deep rich color. She also looked like all her siblings, an offspring of Rosemond.

Judy

I hope you will have a nice surprise tomorrow Judy. Fingers crossed for you.

Thank you!! I appreciate all of you posting who know what it's like or are living the experience through me.

Judy

What a cutie pie! If it's gonna be white, it sure is a snow white! I love her. Do tell about her fragrance.. I bet it's heaven. How cute.. I just love it!

Okay.. I said that twice.. but I mean it!

Well ok but the first thing tomorrow.
It is really exciting to have a new one open. Isn't it.

She smells wonderful!!! I could not help myself I went out in gowntail to take this picture.

I have been sitting here waiting. I knew you would post it. LOL
Good that it smells good.

LOL Jim.
That's great that she smell wonderful Judy. Now the suspense of waiting for her to open.

Jim, You are so bad!!!

BUT I'm not going back out tonight. I'm going to sleep now!!

Judy

Dang I wish I could go to sleep. Big Daddy is going to hate me in the morning, because I'll probably keep him awake all night over a stupid bloom!!

Middle of the night

Well Big Daddy hasn't got to drive you to see the brug. so he should be happy.

It about 40F here with a drizzling rain so not much has happened with the bloom. Just in from taking this picture.

close-up

That is the cutest pic ever Judy!! I know my neighbors see that same thing here every nite and every morning!!!!!! I love it.

ZZsBabiez - We live in the middle of the woods so only the guys shown below would be seeing me. lol lol

The wind is blowing hard, the high for today is 45F and it's going down to freezing tonight so Big Daddy (bigdaddy99) has already brought it in the house, since some of the leaves were already damaged by the wind.

It could be that the bloom is finished, but she definitely will be given the opportunity to show off next summer. She's a perky little thing.

Thanks to all of you who have joined me on this trip.

Judy

We have 4 that basically live in the yard. They never bother anything but they had company the other night who got rowdy and ate rose leaves.

LOL Just found this, Judy - love your bloom! How many times did you check on it during the night?

stownes - I'm not telling. lol lol lol

She is really pretty, Judy, looks like an elegant little lady.
Congratulations!!, your nighttime vigil sure paid off, lol.

It looks very furry - the plant not the deer! Is it arborea?

Oh My!!!! We had the tailend of two hurricanes come through here last year, Katrina being the worst, 53 mile per hour winds recorded 80 miles east of us and we were hit harder. I thought the forest around us was going to come in on us. It tossed planters all over the yard, limbs broke from the big oak trees, blew out the tops of plants ..... etc.

I lost my 'stick in the pot' markers on many of the seedlings. http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/541160/

I said all that to say, Alistair where were you yesterday!!! I would not have been running around like a crazy woman in the middle of the night!! lol lol (little joke, not serious)

Yes I had a couple of arborea seedlings and the bloom looks like some of the pictures that are posted on the Internet. I can't find a good picture of the leaves to compare. This seedling's leaves are different, shorter & fuller, or it could be described as more rounded, than any of my others and some have a little kink to them which causes them to droop, I guess that is a good term for it.

I'll post a picture of the leaves.

Thanks so very much for the input!!!

Judy

The leaf on the bottom right is not on this plant, it's the only leaf left on a beheaded seedling.

LOL well you (and us) wouldn't have had all the fun of your being the night time crazy woman :-))

I think that long pointed calyx with the tip held away from the corolla, the smallish flower and deep cuts on the corolla margin all add up to arborea.

I am very sensitive to arboreas because I am GREEN with envy at anyone who has it lol. I have had so many false starts because of misidentified seed (turning out to be sanguinea, or rubbishy pink suaveloens hybrids or just unviable seed).

But I have tracked down a source in queensland and I think I finally have the right thing..... fingers crossed.

Does yours smell of vanilla? I read it is supposed to (but maybe it varies).

I got out a bottle of pure vanilla extract, stood beside the bloom, smelled the vanilla, then smelled the bloom .... almost exact!!!

Alistair - I forgot to add Thank You!!!

Yaaayyyy! I can't wait to have one of these flower!!

It was nothing :-)

Ah now I have a question I would v much appreciate an answer to:-): can you see if the filaments of the stamens (i.e. the stalks the anthers are on) are hairy (maybe just in the basal part)? The hairs would be very small and fine I guess.

The reason I am asking is that I have been trying to trace back the origin of the name Brugmansia 'Knightii' and the earliest appearance of it have found so far is in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1842 where it is said to be the same as Datura cornigera which itself looks like B. arborea. D. cornigera was illustrated as having hairy stamen filaments and tho it looks like B. arborea, it could conceivably be an odd B. x candida.

This message was edited Nov 16, 2006 7:54 PM

I go take pictures right now, be back in a few minutes.

Judy

Looks fuzzy to me. I will be glad to send you the original (unedited) version of the picture below, just dmail me your email address.

The above was a zoom in on this one.....

If you want more pictures, just let me know. I will be glad to take them.

Judy

from the top side

Strange when it posts on DG that the edges have a pink tinge, it is solid white!!!

Perfect! You're a gem! many thanks!