July Blooms: Part 2

The first July thread was getting long with 175 posts so I thought I would begin a new thread.


I'm not a good photographer, I have to take 50 pictures to sometimes get one decent one. I think I need to take a course in picture taking! LOL.

The only Gessie I have blooming right now ... Chirita Tamiana. I forgot to turn the lights today and just noticed it, flipped the switch and found something blooming for a change! Maybe I should leave them in the dark more often? I have two of the C. tamiana's - one has a bloom and one has two buds that will open soon. I Love this plant!

Here's a close up of the bloom with dust and cat fur too!

Very pretty!

I love your handwriting Lin. Yours are marked with such 'dignity' (LOL)
My plants are lucky if they get a piece of masking tape with the name.

So glad you started a new thread. Well, I was going to show some blooming sinningias but was too lazy to do it right.........they are horrible pics!
Will just show one of Colorado Sunset getting ready to open. I can't wait!

thinking about bed already!

Gail, LOL ... my handwriting is pretty horrible! I have gotten into the habit over the past 10 years or so of printing everything ... the only time I write is to sign my name! My labels are just those packages of self stick labels I bought in the stationery department at Wal-Mart! Makes it so easy, just put the name on it and stick it on the pot. If you could see some of my pots ... labels are stuck in all directions! I'm usually in a hurry and want to remember to label it so I don't forget what it is and the label's just get slapped on!

Oh my goodness ... Colorado Sunset is Beautiful! Is the flower really that red? I love the size and shape of that bloom. Is that one considered a standard/full sized Sinningia? It doesn't look as huge as some of them. If it's not one of the huge ones I think I will add it to my list.

That's a great pic Gail ... you can even see the fuzziness on the leaves!

Actually, Lin, she is going to be pretty reddish-orange. The orange is definitely there. She is a small (not tiny tiny but small) sinningia. I will try maybe on Tuesday to take them to natural light and take pictures as many are blooming right now.

Even the cuttings I took which are rooting right now under a dome are blooming and I thought I had cut all the buds off when I took the cuttings. They are tough little guys for little plants.

**I meant your printing is tidy and very nice!

Oh my goodness, Lin......look what I just found and this red is exactly the red she is. A true perfect deep red. Country Shortcake is her name. I think Jan sent me a cutting of her.
**In person she has no pink......just a great red color

Wow! She's beautiful! I love that name Country Shortcake, really cute!

Tell me, can sinningia's be propagated from leaf like AV's, Strep's etc.?

not always is what I was told as they might not form a tuber. I have 3 leaves growing now just to see if they were telling me the right thing. But they are real easy to grow from tip cuttings. Let me take a picture of some cuttings I just stuck about 5 or 6 days ago..............they root so fast but it takes a little longer to have a tuber of some kind for safety (meaning a backup if the cutting dies or goes dormant) you still have the tuber.

These cuttings need the dome off and face the world! There are some sinningia cuttings from Bonnie, Jan and RainGazer in there along with other things.

I took the dome off of these yesterday . Sinningias are so much fun to root. (There is a little of everything here)

Good morning ladies!

Lin,your C. Tamiana is to cute.My pictures don't come out very good.I take alot of pictures just to get one good one too.

Hi Gail,Yor sinningia is beautiful.Thats alot of cutting you have growing.I have had good and bad luck growing the sinn.leaves.I had one that rooted and I kept it for a year but never put out any growth.Then I rooted another leave of Leo B and got a baby plant to come up.Then a friend told me you could cut the rib out of a sinn.leaf(like you would a strep leave) so I tryed that and got a plant to come up.Thats the one in the picture.

(Don't pay any attention to the leaves.There water spots).

Gail, my friend ... You have a virtual Gessie Nursery! Look at all those babies! Wow!

Jan, I get so frustrated taking pictures! I can snap 50 or more pic's sometimes and maybe, if I'm lucky, get one decent photo from all the ones I took! It is really irritating! I want to blame it on the camera, LOL, but I know it's me. Years ago I went to the local Jr. College and signed up for a course in beginning photography. I lasted 3 weeks and then didn't go back. It was way over my head. I was not the only one who quit ... five or six others left too. There were so many in the class who didn't need a beginner course ... they kept the professor talking about advanced stuff every single class! They even got sidetracked one entire class with discussing dark rooms, chemicals and developing their own photo's! Waay over us beginner's heads! We should have complained since we didn't get our money back. I was young and very shy back then and would never make waves! Ha! If that happened to me today, you better believe I would speak up! Now, I don't have the patience to sit in class to learn anything. LOL. My husband always tells me I have no patience and he is right. Well, actually I do have a lot of patience at times, with some things ... like playing with plants.

So, regarding growing Sinn's from leaf. If the leaf takes root will it form a tuber? I was just wondering. I know that plant called ZZ plant is grown from a bulbous tuber like thing and I cut a stem off of my mom zz a few months ago and stuck it in water to see if it would root. It did grow roots and then the bulbous thing appeared along with roots. I was wondering on a Sinn, if you cut the leaf away to leave a length of the mid rib (like for rooting a strep leaf) if it would grow roots and tuber?

I wish Bonnie would pipe in as I thought she said that sometimes (sometimes) when you grow from leaf on a sinningia you don't get a tuber. Jan, let us know what happens to yours you started from a leaf.

I started some Playful Porpoise from a leaf. I am going to go check and see what is going on with the root system......be back with a picture.

I can't get any more soil off the root system? I don't see babies but the root system is big and heavy??? There are no babies, though.

Wow those are such pretty plants.. Lin I have one ready to bloom also of the same one... I am shipping 3 diffrent ones to Kims today.... they have very long trailors on them...LOL
Is it hard to grow sinningias? What do they need to grow? Gail you say a wicking mat at times what are those? They look like felt squares? Hoping to get some pictures later... My Texas Hot Chili is blooming and she is pretty and my watermelon wine is about to open... can't wait... Ok have to get a few things ready for the post office and I am hoping to talk my husband in to going there for me..LOL
Hugs,
Susan

Lin I too love the chirita Tamiana, so pretty and easy to grow. The thick texture of the small leaves to go with the delicate blooms.

Country Shortcake is a real beauty Gail! I love seeing all your babies!

Jan that sinningia from a de-veined leaf is great, Maybe I'll get brave and try it that way!

I have some young streps putting on their first blooms and so far this one is my favorite. It is called Persian Carpet....

~Brenda

This one is called Wild Irish Rose ..... Susan you may have some of these as they are from the Out of Africa order we did ....

~Brenda

I also have a new little sinningia blooming called Ozarks Pink Kitten, I'm wondering if the center will ever open up more, I've been waiting and waiting ...

~Brenda

Beautiful pictures everyone :)
Brenda, Ozark Pink Kitten is a double. You may just have a flower that is having a hard time doubling. It takes a little longer for a double and a little more effort on the part of the plant :)
Very cute though :)

Kim

Susan,although I ordered my matting from Cape Cod Violetry, you can use felt and it is just as good and works the same.

Brenda, I don't think I can wait to order from Gary! I am trying to wait until the end of the summer to order many from him. Those are the best you posted!!! Isn't he wonderful!!!

Kim or anyone who knows, look what Nan sent. The leaves are bigger than anything I have. I don't even know what the plant is. She also sent so many cuttings that I will have a full basket by winter by taking smaller cuttings.

susan51..do you recognize this? It was one of the little noids you sent in my welcome package back in April. Happy to say it is doing well and quite happy at my house. Had its first bloom this weekend. And it's Pink! Love pink anything!

susan51- another noid you sent back in April. Cute little flower!

Pink Bonanza Bloom

Southern Delight

Anastasia is really blooming now!

Blue Tapestry

They are great choices of AVs but that Anastasia is a 'to die for' bloom and color!

Gail, those are your cuttings of Nematanthus Champagne Jam :)
Those are AWESOME!

Lots of really pretties to start this thread off already :)
Hopefully I can play pictures this afternoon when I get out of here :)

I get so confused Sue, when you type Kim.....(Dimmer), I always think you are talking about me. From now on maybe I should be Gertrude or something *lol*

XO
Kim

Rob's Dust Storm

Those red backed leaves are gorgeous Gail, I'd love to know the name of the plant when you find out!!

Kim, thanks for the explanation on Ozarks Pink Kitten, I knew there had to be a reason! LOL

Beahive that first little noid violet looks like a trailer (my favorites now when it comes to AV's) and the delicate pink bloom is very pretty...

Here is Ruffled Pink........ your right Gail, Gary has the best grown plants and the surprises I'm getting from the sellers choice strep package are awesome!

~Brenda

Being a "fantasy girl" and all of course I LOVE Rob's Dust Storm & Blue Tapestry Bea..........those are just beautiful!

Kim

Brenda..thanks for the trailer info..Will need to give it more room..just in case!

last one for now..Miss Lily

oops! forgot the photo..Miss Lily!

Looks like I now have a name for the red backed leaves!! Thanks Kim!! or is it Gertrude now ... LOL Can't wait to see your pictures later!

Beahive all your violets are just gorgeous, I really enjoy the bloom close ups!

Gail here is the leaf of Susie you sent me awhile back, I cut it in half when I stuck it and will you just look at the babies coming up!! Looks like I de-veined the leaf but I didn't, just whacked it straight in half!!

~Brenda

Brenda, I am finding that when sinningias bloom for the first time that the doubles don't always produce perfect doubles.

Here is Country Kitten on her first blooms

OK, Brenda, you know how jealous I am! Did you do that in straight perlite? If you did, I am copying you today by sticking some new leaves just like you did!

Here is Colorado Sunset and she is more open today and truer in color.

Ok....I have to mail some packages and then I am off to copy exactly what Brenda did!

Wow such nice pictures... Kim I will call Dimmer, Dimmer from now on... Those plants I send to you Bea would have been dead here in my house... LOL They look great now...LOL Ok Brenda I want to know what and how you planted those streps? Domed not domed just perlite what come on spit it out...LOL
Hugs,
Susan

Ohhh, can't wait till my Country Kitten grows up a bit and makes blooms like yours!! Gorgeous!!

Yes, I did straight perlite with your leaves, it was hard to keep them moist enough at first, the water kept settling to the bottom. I finally found I needed to mist them good once a week even under the dome. But you have a lot more humidity than I do so it would be interesting to see how it works for you.

I did my next batch of leaves from Nancy and Susan in 2/3 perlite and 1/3 vermeculite and it helped the moisture issue a lot so I think that's my preferred way now..... but it will change next week. LOL I'm always trying something new. ^_^

This is not a gessie but I am in love with this new iris. I dug it up from a 60 year old home site last year and didn't know what I'd get?? But now I have several of these purple freckled ones just starting to bloom and I'm in love. Yes, it's first part of July and I am just getting my first iris blooms!! Loooong winters!! LOL

Oh, y'all are killing me with these beautiful plants! My "wish" list is already as long as my Christmas list when I was a child! ^_^ I do want to order some sinningia's in the next couple of months for sure! I just need to get my list together, weed out any of the really large plants and decide on what I want in the medium and small or micro ones! I have had such great luck with the micro mini S. pusilla and S. rio das pedras, it would be fun to have a couple more of the teensy ones for terrariums.

Wow Brenda ... Iris in July?! And, a very beautiful Iris at that! I wish they would grow down here. I remember when I was a child in Virginia, the beautiful springs with Iris, daff's, etc.

Oh, before I forget. Could a couple of you who are familiar with Nematanthus take a look at this thread: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/865605/ in the ID Forum. Someone is trying to ID a plant and I keep looking at it and it sure looks like Nematanthus to me.