I'm growing geophytic gesneriads such as Sinningia, Smithiantha, Chrysothemis, Diastema, Gloxinella, Niphaea, and Kohleria. And fibrous rooted gesneriads such as Primulina (formerly Chirita), Streptocarpus, Episcia, Aeschynanthus, Drymonia, Columnea, Nematanthus, and Saintpaulia. ALMOST my entire collection is New World genera. I've grown disappointed with many as they are too finicky about watering and/or lighting and/or overly susceptible to pests/fungus. My standout favorites are Primulina (all of them, but especially P. tamiana), Sinningia cardinalis, Niphaea oblonga, Gloxinella lindeniana, and Diastema vexans. I also have to admit that Aescynanthus, which I didn't even want, has been a splendid house plant...and is in bloom again now. I tried lots of other genera from seed but without successful germination. I'm not familiar with many of the genera you listed, beleive it or not, even though I recognize they're New World. Dennis in Cincinnati (really upset to have missed the gesneriad shows & sales in Nashville, TN and Mansfield, OH earlier this month) On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Michael Benedito <jindegales@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Im also a Gesneriadaholic. But my main focus are Kohleria, Smithiantha, Gloxinia (the true genus), Seemannia and things alike. I also grow Rhytidophyllum, Gesneria, Vanhouttea, Hypocyrta, Unifoliate Streptocarpus, Nemathanthus and a few Columnea (Dalbergaria). > > One of the genera im looking for are Paradrymonia, do you grow these Dennis? > > Regards > Michael > > > > ________________________________ > From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> > Sent: Wednesday, 21 September 2011, 21:09 > Subject: Re: [pbs] might be of interest Sinningia speciosa (Gloxinia) > > I started growing Sinningia species (and hybrids) about 15 months ago. > My experience is very similar to Janos'. I have lost plants to pests > and/or neglect... but they resprout from the tubers. > > I'm growing Sinningia speciosa, S. tubiflora, S. sellovii, S. > eumorpha, S. cardinalis, S. sceptrum, and a few others... In fact I > should have S. cardinalis seed for the PBS BX soon. > > Some of my plants I acquired from the PBS BX. Others I obtained > through Gesneriad Society events. (I'm growing lots of other > gesneriads too... mostly South American species.) > > I really love the hairy fuzzy Sinningias but I'm not growing many of those yet. > > Dennis in Cincinnati > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >