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Is anyone growing Cyrtanthus carneus, C. herreri and C. flanaganii? 

I am looking for these three species and it would also be nice to hear from others who grow them and are happy to share some photos of their plants.

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone in the UK is growing Gethyllis, and has enough bulbs to share/sell? Or seeds?

Hi everyone,

Has anyone seen something like this on Haemanthus leaves? I am not sure what is causing these spots. The spots seen against light on the underside of the leaf do not correspond to the dry linear breakages on the top surface - do I have two issues here?

This is Haemanthus albiflos grown from a bulb originally from South Africa. It took a while to start growing but once started it looked really healthy, and recently started getting these spots and lines.

Hi everyone,

I was wondering what observations people have regarding Stagonospora curtisii, indoors and out. What genera do you find get infected? What do you do? Do you treat it? Do you leave it? What do you treat it with? I am particularly interested in hearing from UK based members if you have been successful in treating it - what products did you find effective?

Thank you,

Piotr

Hi everyone,

I am new to this forum and my apologies if I am posting this in the wrong place.

I have read a lot about the floatation method for germinating seeds in the Topic of the Week, and I am currently using it to germinate some Rhodophiala bagnoldii seeds I ordered from Chile. I am based in the UK, so we have spring now. I got two packets, each was supposed to be around 30 seeds, but the one I opened had over 60 - and I would say almost 100% of them germinated. They still have not grown any leaves though. It has been a week since I put them in water, they started developing roots after maybe 2 days, but now some started dropping the roots, which float on the surface detached from the seeds. I have counted around 5 or 6 so far, but I am worried they will all do it and that will be the end of it.

Has anyone encountered this issue before with this method and Rhodophiala seeds? What did you do?

Thank you,

Piotr