The plant is loaded, dispite being neglected.
Mimi
Unknown EPI buds and blooms
The bloom
Close up... just got a new camera...
Your plant is beautiful! Red is my favorite color!
Thank you, Delecie..
So beautiful Mimi. I hope mine look like that when they all flower.
Thank you, sunset. This is the whole plant, not too impressive. It got some frost damage and cold wind damage. It's in such a huge pot that it's just impossible to move. We did cover it up but the poor thing still sustained some damage.
Sunset,
How are all your babies coming along? Need some updated pictures of them! :)
Hello Mimi. i just went out and took a couple of pics to show the epis at the moment. Here, they won't flower until around October. but one of the German Empress plants has put out 2 flowers.
The first pic is of some of the pots on floor of epi house under the benches. They are all either small seedlings or rooted cuttings. Most came with the collection but I can't bear to throw away plant bits , so have potted them. I'll have to stop doing that or I'll have no room left at all. It's hard to see through the shadecloth, but there is now another shadehouse on the end of the large epi house. The epi house is around 24 feet long and the new part which will be for my ferns , is another 20 feet long. Hubby says I have to stop or there will be no room to even get the car in the yard.
How can a gardener stop ??
I love that pic of yours. Some of mine were so long they were breaking off. I cut eveything right back very hard and you can see the results. They are as big now as they were before I cut them. The difference is , the new growth is nice and green and healthy. I hope to have lots of flowers this year but whether they will flower on that new growth or not, I'll have to wait and see. Happy gardening, Jean
Part of the epi collection.
German Empress out of season flowers.
Jean,
Those epi collections are so impressive! Thank you for posting them.
I know what you mean by not wanting to throw any of the pieces away!
Mimi
WOW, what a collection! Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Roxanne
Hello,
I have a question, I have gotten some epi cuttings, what I need to know is how long before they start to bloom, Some of the cuttings had buds and bloomed. Will they bloom again this year or do they just bloom onec a year.
Thanks,
Dee
Hello Dee. From what I have seen with mine and read on other threads, epis mostly bloom once a year . Some cuttings will bud and flower but a lot of the buds will drop off. I had one flower and some fall off. with my cuttings. I think it is better to take the buds off and let the cuttings put their energy into growing in the first year. Most will take a year or two to flower, sometimes more. Good luck with yours. Jean
Thanks for the info Jean, by the way, sure do love your epi's, boy what a ton you have.
Dee