Tunilla time

[Phil_SK]

My Tunilla have got their act together this year and some a flowering that haven't done before, giving me the opportunity to post a photo with 8 different ones flowering at the same time.

A few of them have got their timing wrong, however.

Other than colour, there's not much difference between them...

...apart from this one, which always has mutant filaments with bits of stigma attached.

[Terry S.]

Your Tunilla jungle looks like a no-go area. The only one that I ever had got dumped, because every time I got near to it I was attacked! My "Opuntia" chaffeyi has got the same threat lying over it, but the flowers are so lovely.

[AnTTun]

I'm officialy envious

[Mike P]

Good work there Phil. What label do you have on the last one?
Are they allotted one seed tray each?

[Phil_SK]

Yes, they're not a section of the greenhouse that I mess about with very often. I was fed up with their habit of growing down into the gaps between round half pots so, in the absence of square pots, I thought it would be a good idea to put them in foil food/takeaway trays and then stand these in large plastic trays. Unfortunately, they haven't weathered very well and transplanting them to something else is on the cards. Half seed trays would suit some but I could really do with some 3/4-sized trays for some of the larger/nicer ones as full trays would be over-generous.

The last plant came from Bill Greenaway as chilensis ex Mächler and I read somewhere (and I wish I could remember where) that the Mächler plant is ex-Ritter.

Some better shots of the funny flowers.

[Mike P]

It does look exactly the same as the plant I have labelled chilensis. A couple of the clones I got from you a few years back have flowered this year but leaning in over the bench to try and see the labels is fraught with danger....I do find it difficult to persuade more folk to love them.
I am tempted to treat the best clones to larger pots but sadly it just leads to ever increasing problems with space. The polytunnel on the allotment is rapidly going the same way as the greenhouse did and all thoughts of tomatoes and cucumbers are fading away......