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Post by dvg on Aug 14, 2019 14:58:45 GMT -5
Here is how this one was looking yesterday:   dvg |
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Post by dvg on Aug 15, 2019 15:51:03 GMT -5
These are the two darkest clones from this batch, though the reduced photo period has them not as dark as they were.  dvg |
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Post by dvg on Sept 6, 2019 13:38:40 GMT -5
With the lenghtening shadows outside from these shorter days of summer, these crosses are shortening their leaves, getting ready for their soon to be dormancies.  Will take some leaf pullings for propagation of these to share in other's collections for next year.  dvg |
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Post by ellsie on Sept 6, 2019 13:45:19 GMT -5
I could have sworn that I was looking at a starfish! Nice growing dvg!
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Post by dvg on Sept 12, 2019 17:45:00 GMT -5
Never quite sure how these will progress from year to year at this stage of their development. Last year this one looked like a small campfire, with shorter leaves and yellows, oranges and reds for coloring. This year the leaves have elongated and the coloring is predominantly red.  It still hasn't flowered yet, so will have to wait and see what next year brings.  dvg |
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Post by muckydoo on Sept 15, 2019 14:41:17 GMT -5
Wow, I love that ping! Great job!
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Post by dvg on Oct 10, 2019 10:43:15 GMT -5
Two step-siblings in a pot, both having the same mother, one of them, a moranensis, as well.  dvg |
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Post by dvg on Oct 23, 2019 12:49:39 GMT -5
The following pics were taken about a fortnight ago, just before these mexi-pings were mostly picked clean for propagation leaf pulls.  This group of three is impressive because of how upright their leaves remain late into their growing season.  And of course this curly little critter.  This one might only appeal to me, with its asymmetrical growth habit and its seeming refusal to grow like a regular looking rosette.  Will have to see how these are looking next year, in 2020.  dvg |
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Post by dvg on Feb 5, 2020 12:14:33 GMT -5
A couple of these rosettes enjoying their winter vaycays.  This one below, is the one with long slender leaves and the curlicued tips.  dvg |
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Post by dvg on Jun 1, 2020 1:13:34 GMT -5
A few of these clones are beginning to wake up,  while some have already been up and active.  dvg |
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Post by dvg on Jun 3, 2020 13:30:45 GMT -5
A couple clones have been showing signs of flowering so far, here is one them.    dvg |
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Post by dvg on Jun 15, 2020 12:08:05 GMT -5
This bulb will later be making long slender leaves with those curlicued leaf tips.  But for now, there is a flower to erect. dvg |
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Post by gj on Jun 15, 2020 12:56:28 GMT -5
Those curlicued leaves catch my eye every single time I scroll by. It looks much more starfish like to me than the P. 'Red Starfish' cultivar, which is also a moranensis x heterophylla hybrid. It's actually the first plant I can distinctly remember coming across the very first time I came to this site.
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Post by dvg on Jun 15, 2020 13:49:08 GMT -5
I could have sworn that I was looking at a starfish! lol GJ! It seems that you were not alone in seeing this fancy onion's inner starfish.  dvg |
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Post by dvg on Jun 17, 2020 17:45:29 GMT -5
For a while there, I wasn't sure what this clone was trying to do,  whether it was unfurling its new leaves of unveiling it's first flower ever.  The process looked painful, but it turned out it was both unfurling and unveiling.  And with this flower looking so white in color, i very strongly suspect that this clone is actually the reverse cross - P. heterophylla x moranensis.  I had thrown a few of the reverse cross seeds in with the other larger seed batch, and figured i'd be able to tell the difference by the leaves and flowers.  All of the other clone's flowers that are either flowering now or showing flower buds, are purple in color, like the moranensis parent's flowers, and none of the other clones sport long, slender summer leaves like this one does. dvg |
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