Help Me Grow A Worsleya
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Comments (15)Nice photo, Allen! I only wish I had your climate to grow in! I'm up north where the winters are harsh, and most of my growing is indoors. The few lights I do have are not that expensive to run, and I only run a small heating pad for seedlings or other items I'm trying to root. Sometimes, I use it for giving bottom heat to a Hippeastrum bulb that refuses to wake up. The Worsleya photos I've seen are lovely, but I don't feel I'm far enough along in my rare bulb education and experience to try any just yet. Plus, I just don't have the space! Remember, I'm growing my entire collection of plants and bulbs in a small second floor, one room apartment! I'm not even sure how I managed to get all this in here! I can't even imagine packing it all up to move! I do like the fact that it's a blue flower, though... Those plants in the photo look a little like my Clivia plants!...See MoreWorsleya - Waiting on a bloom someday
Comments (10)I do not mean to discourage anyone......my climate is a disaster for Worsleya, but I've grown a few reasonably well for several years now. From what I understand, the key is a really nice temperature drop of 20-25 degrees at night. They are from the mountains where it can be quite cool at night and downright chilly in the semi-dormant season. The guy in FLA reports that his grow in Mexico very well where they have the dry season for several months....they do not get water then....totally natural growing...he brings them in to FLA to sell.....they do not do as well in FLA as in Mexico.....doesn't mean you cannot grow one :o) Del, I gues I should not have said they do not like high humidity, what they do not seem to appreciate is hot, stagnant air with no temp drops and high humidity......sort of like those wonderful summer days in the south where it is 95 during the day, 85 at night with no break from the humidity....San Francisco is a great climate for them, mountains in Mexico....if that helps you think about the climate they love....mine stinks and they spend a lot of time inside during the winter getting watered very little...sem-dormancy. Here is a pic of their habitat a friend sent me.....very little soil, growing in pockets in the rock and lots of fog....this was taken in April/May in Brasil: Most people use a really porous mix without any soil....some use pine bark as an organic.......a few months ago it was reported by a fabulous grower from South Africa that he germinates his seed in pure Canadian blond peat....who would have thunk, but this has turned out to be his best growing media for his babies!! Seed typically sell for $3-5 each so if you can buy a handful I say give it a try.....nothing ventured nothing gained :o) Dan...See MoreWorsleya procera - Empress of Brasil and Blue Amaryllis
Comments (148)Hi Fred, I have 2 of my large Worsleya with bloom spikes right now in the basement. With any luck I will have flowers in a week or two and if I'm really lucky I will have seed pods and even seed in about 4-5 months. Assuming all that happens I will have seed for sale at that time. I also sometimes sell small 2 year old seedling plants, but I sold maybe 40 last summer so do not know if I will cull the herd again this summer. If I have anything I will let people know on here as I did last summer. I will likely take pics of my flowering plants and post them somewhere on here if I get the motivation for stacking pics. I must say, this is one of the few plants that even though I have seen them bloom many times now I still look forward to seeing them in bloom - and they are one of the few plants my wife actually likes that I grow :o) Dan...See More3rd year growing hots, can you help me with my growing list?
Comments (12)@tsheets - I posted a few months ago on a couple of the different hab/fatali recipes we were fooling around with, including some cookies. Here's a link to that post: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/pepper/msg0913133225559.html The recipes in that post use habs, but we mostly use fatalis in our desert dishes now, when we have them available. The absolute best thing we ever made with fatalis or habs were fatali-almond caramels. I haven't poste pics or recipes for that, but I will one of these days. We can only have them 2 or 3 times a year, because we eat all of them until they are gone, as soon as they're done, and that isn't good for the waistline....See Morekaboehm (zone 9a, TX USA)
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