It's deceptive, the two broad leaf ones still have their seeds, the longest one is at least 2.75" long, and 1/16" short of 1" across , shorter one 1.75" long and if I could straighten it, it would be about the same width as the long one or more.
The biggest one of the variegated lot is 1.5" long, 0.75" wide and that's with the curve! The next biggest at the other side, the paler looking one, is about 0.5" long. It could end up being a very short leaved one, the broader ones look to be all short leaved. The others are slower to take off, so I imagine it's the different genes at play, the broad ones are robust.
The weather has perhaps slowed them down in the midst of winter, even though they are in a propogator with bottom heat, the time of year and outside warmth shining in has it's effect. Now it has warmed up a little, into the 50'sF, they are moving again. (had 15C yesteday, 59F, fog this morning and 43F but sun is breaking through at past noon) If it hadn't been for winter they might have all lived, but they have to live in this climate so the fittest survive.
For a start, until they had their roots well in, I gave a good wetting then only a light spray when looking dry. Once the roots were established I waited until they looked quite dry, then poured water on top, just one small amount to soak in, then left again until looking fairly dry. I wet the mat under them to maintain some humidity, but once the roots were established I have kept both air vents open.
Clivias anyone?
Well I finally bought the clivia 'golden dragon' from Logee. We went there last week and they looked so good that I bought two for 17.95 ea, even though they were in tiny pots, they had huge roots as thick as my little finger and one pot had two plants in it. Of course I spent quite a bit of time looking over every one to get the best ones I could find. Now for the couple of year wait. I am getting inspired to try some from seed. My old reliable oranges are in bloom now. They are a joy. Patti
New and exclusive! You must have got a bargain there, even though it sounds a lot of money I have seen colours like that go for a lot of money for seed, some on ebay similar sold for about £20 for 2 seeds!
http://boomanfloral.com/lp_clivia.htm
Great job on those seedlings up there Janet! I feel another addiction coming on...... =)
And that's a STURDY species too! lol
As I promised here is my baby.
and another
and one more
Thanks, I surely do love it. Which one is it? I have the tag from Lowes but I am not sure it says exactly which one it is.
I hope it makes seeds. I don't know how to pollinate anything so I put it out buy the wisteria in hopes the bumble bees would do it for me.
Thanks Deb, I just wish the variegated ones were as robust as the others, but I do have some interesting looking ones there.
Variegated are supposed to be tricky, I can see one with maybe good stripes coming on it, #4 across from the biggest, it has a 2nd leaf growing (but still short!) and looks a little broader and better variegated than #3, #2 is difficult to tell, it looks to be yellowish with fine green lines but that may change. I will, hopefully, find out!
You sure got a good'un there Sandy! It looks so healthy, you must be doing something right with it! Good luck with seed set, if you get some it will be fun growing them. In fact it's exciting!
Patti, do try from seed too, and Deb, why not give them a go, they are sturdy! I can't wait to see how mine turn out!
Gerris, if you grew yours from seed then it wouldn't have a name as such from a hybrid. Only an offset from a named hybrid could be said to have a name.
It's only species that will come true from seed, and I doubt that one is a species, it's a very nice hybrid though!
Wallaby1, I will try to get one to set seed. Here are a couple of mine yesterday. Patti
Here is one of the little clivia 'golden dragon' from Logee http://www.logees.com/ that cost 17.95. As we found one with two plants that came out to about 12.00 each. I have wanted a yellow one for years. They had scads of them started, plus some blooming sized ones for 49.95. The color is a beautiful soft yellow. Patti
Very nice Clivia's all!
Janet--I'm amazed any variegation shows up that early. I have several things that were rather wispy (not clivia's) starting to "sturdy up" now that its warm. I guess the next challenge will be to keep things from frying. I went out and labeled real strong seldlings as being strong so that when they go down I'll really have a good idea what's worth hanging on too.
I can feel another bulb addiction coming on...thanks ya'll, I was getting a little low on bulbs and need a new species. ;)
They look very healthy too Patti, goodluck with the pollinating!
Deb I don't know if that's the norm with variegated Clivia, but it is showing well. I'll get some pics later, it's fast racing towards the morning here.
or now I cropped some down, they might not be very good.
The small one from the back
An update, not looking good but a couple are doing OK. I lost the largest lime green leaved one on the left of this pic
http://davesgarden.com/forums/p.php?pid=3321360
The compost was quite dry so I did as I had done before, poured a little water on the surface. That one had a small soggy patch near the base of the leaf the following day, then it went very quickly, root rotting as well.
NOW, what I do have left is interesting! In the pic to follow there are 4 only, the largest one now is the one on the right, the same position as in the link. It has developed interesting variegation with a fairly broad creamy yellow band on one edge, the leaf tip has dried a little but in general it looks promising.
The one which I could see variegation on from an early stage which is next to the largest leaf has grown a little, and has some solid looking stripes.
Th third from right is not very exciting. Last one to the left is looking worse than it did, it had a pale leaf before, but is even more pale now with the first leaf part-dried and a new one growing.
The root you see is one of 7 still there but with no leaves. It's about 2" long, another I pulled out was shorter but healthy. The question is, will they produce leaves? I think they have a good chance!
The limey one which rotted had not made a solid root. They start off white and fuzzy, as they mature they turn more fleshy, the top part going green. I noticed this with the second one of Clivia nobilis, it didn't start to produce leaves until it had a solid root.
The tiny one with pale yellow leaves is still the same, I would have thought if one was going to die it would have been that. I was disappointed the lime one rotted, it looked to be a good broad leaf.
Another angle
The other two from the monk with 52 flowers are doing well. The longest one is approx. 3" long. 1" wide. The other is 2.5" or over and a little under 1.25" wide.
C. nobilis, the long leaf is nearly 2"
The two together for comparison.
Wallaby1, Oh, how exciting, a new Clivia 'Wallaby Wonder' . Now if it continues to grow, we only have to wait 3 to 7 years to see it bloom. I am very patient as long as it is not my plant. Good for you, fingers crossed across the pond, Patti
Haha Patti, sometimes I do wonder!
Looking on the bright side, I can enjoy the leaves (and the challenge) for a long time, then I will hopefully have a wonderful surprise with the flowers.
Long fingers there, if I get 2 good variegated plants I will have done OK, and the smaller one might be a short leaf type. The bigger leaf is definitely fairly wide.
The wider leaved one of the two green ones from the poorly variegated plant with 52 flowers shows promise of being a very wide leaf and short length. It still has some puckering, if that is straightened it would be easily 1.25" wide, and with the length approx 2.5" I think that is a good ratio which is apparently desirable. The form, upright leaves desirable, is yet to be seen but is likely with the ratio.
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