Fleming Island Rachel - Blooming again!

Color,Color,Color!!! Fleming Island Rachel is very pretty german cultivar by
Ludger Schneider grown out here in the U.S.. This very tall growing brugmansia has some of the richest, most vibrant color of any double that I have grown. Documented as a 2005 cultivar it has only recently been released. After 2 years of growing, she is a huge 12 footer with a gorgeous dark green canopy in my garden. I have been very successful in hybridizing with this one. She sits with nine pods and has been outcrossed to several great cultivars as well. You can see a Rosalie pod in the picture.
She has just started blooming again. I'll post more pics as she fills out with more blooms.

This message was edited Mar 15, 2009 9:13 PM

Beautiful, Gary! A treasure for sure.

You were absolutely right Gary, she is very beautiful and a sure winner.

Definately a winner, here we go again, you are such a tease, enough to make me drool. *LOL*



Doris

Beautiful! Where can I get one of these, Gary?

Gorgeous! Doris, please pass the tissue! Another one for my wish list.
Gary, how tall was it when it produced it's first "Y"? Does it bloom well?

Betty it was pretty tall before it 'Y'd. Since it's i posted the first pictures a while back it has had blooms continuously but I was busy chopping them up before they bloomed out. I am tired now of pollinating now and I think I am close to being done for the season. I decided to just enjoy her blooms this time around. I have to go up on a ladder tonight to see about fragrance.

oh my goodness.. I am stunned by that ones' beautiful colour!

Gary, it's hard to imagine having to use a ladder to get to a bloom. Will your pods be ready to pick before you go back up north? But then you'll have something to look forward to when you return next fall.

Yes, i don't leave till june so everything should be picked by then. That's the reason i have pretty much stopped my pollinating. I am just going to enjoy most of the stuff i bloom from now on (although there are a few exceptions). I probably have close to 50 pods on various cultivars. All of them planned. This year I have discarded all of my bee pollinated pods just as soon as I saw them start. I have too many known crosses to worry about the bee pods.

So, I guess this one isn't available to us - is that right?

Not at this moment, at least not from me..I have to wait for my pods to ripen before I can begin to cut her up for rooting cuttings.

Thanks for the response!

How close is she related to F.I.Spider?

No relation at all except that Ludger Schneider is the hybridizer of both and John Scott is the seedling parent of both.
F.I. Rachel is Kleine Lady x Everlasting Ruby and F.I. Spider is Charleston x Kascade



This message was edited Mar 29, 2009 9:27 PM

For those of you who asked when Rachel will be available. Rachel will be up on ebay tonight for the first time.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you and your Beauty!

I checked ebay didn't find it

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=160327875084

I wonder who n***a is? He/She is bidding on all your auctions. Stiff competition.

I saw that too ... but I am glad I have the link to the ebay store now! Thanks!

I hope it sells for BIG $. Good luck Gary