That Avonia is off again
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:23 pm
I'm aiming to get enough seeds for the BCSS list this year. Have to remember to tickle, because it tends not to self-pollinate. This is just one plant.
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Re: That Avonia is off again
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2018 4:20 pm
Wow!
Re: That Avonia is off again
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:09 pm
Super!
Re: That Avonia is off again
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2018 10:23 pm
Looking great! By the way, I have sown seeds of avonia harveyi I got from you last year a couple of months ago and now got 7 seedlings on the way!
Re: That Avonia is off again
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 5:53 pm
So I have to ask. How did you do it? I've sown several times now and my best score is two. I didn't send you thousands of seeds, so it isn't that. I don't have any trouble with other Avonias.MaciejW wrote:Looking great! By the way, I have sown seeds of avonia harveyi I got from you last year a couple of months ago and now got 7 seedlings on the way!
Re: That Avonia is off again
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 7:17 pm
It's just one of those things. I can't grow Pleiospilos nelii while others grow it with ease...iann wrote:So I have to ask. How did you do it? I've sown several times now and my best score is two. I didn't send you thousands of seeds, so it isn't that. I don't have any trouble with other Avonias.
Re: That Avonia is off again
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 8:45 pm
Splendid, I have enough trouble seeing my Anacampseros flowers open. It will be a real treat to see flowers on any of the three Avonias I bought earlier this year.
Re: That Avonia is off again
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:59 am
Seeing Ian's photo, I do wonder again about the origins of this species. It really does look like a stabilised hybrid of A. quinaria and something like grisea. The flowers are much larger than normal for this type of Anacampseros and there is the lack of self-fertility.
For those who haven't hovered their mouse over the picture, it is A. quinarioides
For those who haven't hovered their mouse over the picture, it is A. quinarioides
Re: That Avonia is off again
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 3:08 pm
Put my name down on one for a swap, Maciej!MaciejW wrote:Looking great! By the way, I have sown seeds of avonia harveyi I got from you last year a couple of months ago and now got 7 seedlings on the way!
Re: That Avonia is off again
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 11:16 pm
They sprout rather sporadic. First two came up within a couple of days, rest almost at once with another spellets of hot weather probably 2 months later. They are kept in pot in zip bag, indoors, in my plant room - south facing back porch.iann wrote: So I have to ask. How did you do it? I've sown several times now and my best score is two. I didn't send you thousands of seeds, so it isn't that. I don't have any trouble with other Avonias.
I tend to have a successful germination, it gets worse for me with keeping them alive later.