Flowering this evening

Post by **el48tel** » Thu May 23, 2019 10:53 pm

And the sweet smell of methyl salicylate

Post by **Keith H** » Thu May 23, 2019 11:15 pm

Always superb flowers, sadly only for one night as they say.

Seems rather early in the season, nothing doing on mine yet.

Post by **Greenlarry** » Fri May 24, 2019 12:30 am

Beautiful
Selenocereus?

Post by **el48tel** » Fri May 24, 2019 5:45 am

Greenlarry wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2019 12:30 am Beautiful
Selenocereus?

Setiechinopsis mirabilis

Post by **el48tel** » Fri May 24, 2019 5:54 am

Keith H wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2019 11:15 pm Always superb flowers, sadly only for one night as they say.

Seems rather early in the season, nothing doing on mine yet.

Alas for one night only ... this morning ... a remnant. So they live up to their name ... mirabilis.
I have 2 plants with about 7 more opportunities should the flowers be viable ... possibly one tonight or tomorrow.

Post by **rodsmith** » Fri May 24, 2019 7:57 am

A lovely flower and beautifully photographed.

Terry S. · Post by **Terry S.** » Fri May 24, 2019 8:04 am

Hint: cut off that dead flower this morning, about 1 - 2 mm above the areole. Reason: this species is completely self-fertile and produces enormous seed pods; leave them on and the plant becomes so debilitated that it will be unlikely to recover properly. It is naturally short-lived but leave the seed pods on and it will be more or less biennial.

Post by **el48tel** » Fri May 24, 2019 9:32 am

Terry S. wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2019 8:04 am Hint: cut off that dead flower this morning, about 1 - 2 mm above the areole. Reason: this species is completely self-fertile and produces enormous seed pods; leave them on and the plant becomes so debilitated that it will be unlikely to recover properly. It is naturally short-lived but leave the seed pods on and it will be more or less biennial.

Decisions .... decisions!
Interesting though because one of the two plants I acquired had a pod from which I set seeds. Both have buds.

Post by **MalcolmP2** » Fri May 24, 2019 10:57 am

el48tel wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2019 5:45 am Setiechinopsis mirabilis

excellent picture, thanks for showing
I thought I recognised it as what mine should have been !
Sadly mine was not to be, 2 weeks ago :-

The day before,

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Twice I arose in the night to inspect, it was trying,

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but on the following day- a sad sight

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I am thinking of renaming mine from Seti to Josephine !

What a wealth of info this fine forum is, I was hoping mine might have set seed,
as you say,,, decisions !

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Sorry, dont mean to take over your topic !!

Post by **el48tel** » Fri May 24, 2019 11:22 am

MalcolmP2 wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2019 10:57 am
el48tel wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2019 5:45 am Setiechinopsis mirabilis
excellent picture, thanks for showing
I thought I recognised it as what mine should have been !
Sadly mine was not to be, 2 weeks ago :-

The day before,
387s1.jpg

Twice I arose in the night to inspect, it was trying,

399s1.jpg

but on the following day- a sad sight

477s1.jpg

I am thinking of renaming mine from Seti to Josephine !

What a wealth of info this fine forum is, I was hoping mine might have set seed,
as you say,,, decisions !

496s1.jpg

Sorry, dont mean to take over your topic !!

Thanks for sharing your experience. Sorry you were unlucky. Whereas, I WAS lucky. The only way in which beginners like me, learn, is through experience ... and that of others. So you have not taken the thread over ... you have added to the joint knowledge.

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