Pink Rhodophiala bifida bloom time

Tony Avent tony@plantdelights.com
Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:43:19 PDT
Bob:

I also had heard about the sterility of the southern clone of R. bifida 
and bought into that idea until ours started setting seed a couple of 
years ago after we added more rhodophiala genetics to the garden.  It 
seems that they had just been looking for love in all the wrong places.

Tony Avent
Plant Delights Nursery @
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Raleigh, North Carolina  27603  USA
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Robt R Pries wrote:
> Tony; It has been alledged that the common red
> flowered Rhodolphiala across the south is a sterile
> triploid. Supposedly it is also a sturdier plant
> because of this. Do you see any of the red flowered
> forms setting seed and are they really different in
> vigor from the red-flowered plants that came from you
> pink flowered seed?
>
>
> --- Tony Avent <tony@plantdelights.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Diana:
>>
>> We got our original Rhodophiala bifida carmine pink
>> from seed sent in by 
>> Alberto Castillo several years ago.  Our original
>> plants set seed and we 
>> now have about 750 flowering size 3-year old plants
>> in ground beds.  
>> Most are exactly like the typical red R. bifida
>> except for some oddballs 
>> with narrow petals, and some shorter than normal. 
>> For us typical R. 
>> bifida flowers in early-mid September.  The first of
>> these carmine pink 
>> seedlings flowered in late July-early
>> August...probably about 10 
>> plants.  A few flowered in mid-August...probably
>> another 10 plants, and 
>> the majority are just beginning to flower now.  We
>> get a small 
>> percentage of a stunning ruby-red flowered forms
>> from these seed also.  
>> There is obviously a great deal of variability in
>> color, form, and bloom 
>> time.  Once again, a thanks to Alberto for sharing
>> these new genetics.
>>  
>>
>> Tony Avent
>> Plant Delights Nursery @
>> Juniper Level Botanic Garden
>> 9241 Sauls Road
>> Raleigh, North Carolina  27603  USA
>> Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F
>> Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F
>> USDA Hardiness Zone 7b
>> email tony@plantdelights.com
>> website  http://www.plantdelights.com/
>> phone 919 772-4794
>> fax  919 772-4752
>> "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it
>> myself...at least three times" - Avent
>>
>>
>>
>> Diana Chapman wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Lee:
>>>
>>> Yes mine do the same thing, although I have two
>>>       
>> different clones of the pink 
>>     
>>> R. bifida, and one has already bloomed, while the
>>>       
>> other is just sending up 
>>     
>>> buds.  Honestly, I can't see why the pink one is
>>>       
>> called R. bifida, since it 
>>     
>>> seems quite a bit different from the red one in
>>>       
>> form, being much smaller and 
>>     
>>> daintier, tepals more pointed, striated, etc., but
>>>       
>> I call it R. bifida Pink 
>>     
>>> Form because everyone else does.  The other clone
>>>       
>> I have was collected from 
>>     
>>> the Buenos Aires region and is also a slightly
>>>       
>> darker pink - this is the one 
>>     
>>> that blooms earlier.
>>>
>>> Diana
>>> Telos Rare Bulbs
>>> http://www.telosrarebulbs.com/
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Along with some oporanthous bulbs such as a
>>>>         
>> Lycoris x albiflora that is
>>     
>>>> slightly tinged with a hint of pink, and several
>>>>         
>> Amaryllis (or possibly
>>     
>>>> Amarygias) of various colors, I had all of my
>>>>         
>> pink Rhodophiala bifidas
>>     
>>>> bloom the past couple of weeks and none of the
>>>>         
>> red ones have bloomed
>>     
>>>> (yet), including those in a large pot of mixed
>>>>         
>> colors (reds and pinks)
>>     
>>>> from seeds I think Alberto Castillo sent out to a
>>>>         
>> BX a number of years
>>     
>>>> ago. Does anyone know why that might be?
>>>> (Especially since almost all of the pink ones
>>>>         
>> have now wilted, possibly
>>     
>>>> because of this ridiculous heat wave we've had
>>>>         
>> that ended this morning.
>>     
>>>> Yet there isn't even a sign of scape tips
>>>>         
>> emerging from the red
>>     
>>>> flowered ones. Thus, the red blooming will be
>>>>         
>> separated from the pink
>>     
>>>> blooming by a month or even more.)
>>>>
>>>> --Lee Poulsen
>>>> Pasadena, California, USDA Zone 10a
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
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