Stush - everything looks GREAT !!

The most beautiful color - Sansevieria kirkii Pulchra 'Coppertone'.

Are all flowering from this year?

I'm ashamed to say but I'm jealous :))

And a few of my flowering

Sansevieria francisii - step by step :)

Sansevieria trifasciata 'Silver Princess'

Sansevieria trifasciata 'Wagner's Gold' - opening soon :)

Becky

Fernwood

Wow! Stush especially that 'Coppertone' but all are WOW!

Sansevieria aubrytiana AYO - last summer

I'll post more of Coppertone when opened. Hoping to get seeds from this cross.

Congratulations on all these beautiful blooms! I wish I had some to add, but, sorry no blooms right now.

Stush you have really outdone yourself getting all these plants to bloom. I am wondering if your alfalfa concoctions have something to do with this.

Wow, everyone's flowering sans are beautiful!! Can't wait to see the opened flowers of the coppertone Stush. Do you know if they will be purple?

It may be possible that the small amount of 'Super Phosphate' added to the potting soil may have some thing to do with flowering. Don't know. After bringing them out in spring, I haven't done anything except watch them.

First time for Coppertone. Unknown what to expect. First time for 'Spoon' as well. I wish I had a dumb cane plant blooming. Never seen one in bloom. Since Sans are now under Dracaena and would be great to get a hybrid.

Stush,

One of your cuttings you sent me flowered early this year.

And the next one shows a bud - Sansevieria concinna 5949

Well all my blooms are finished and some are forming berries due to some thing that looked like fruit flies on the flowers.

And Coppertone is still not opening. What is going on with this on. Getting bigger and bigger every day.

Your Coppertone is amazing! Not commonly seen blooming.

Our friend Mike had some bloom on his a few years ago. You can search for it on the forum. He took some beautiful pictures.

Hammer time! Thanks Barb but looking thru these forums is too much. Wish they had a search engine that works. Not just for their adds. I can't even find my own posts.

Mike's keeping pretty quite this year. Hope he's feeling well.

Stush, here it is. I have pretty good luck with the search engine.

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2145226/s-kirkii-pulchra-coppertone-starts-flowering#n=28

Good find Barb. Mine started to open this morning. Just 2 hrs. later, started to fade. I pollinated it as soon as I could. Hope it takes. Got a dozen more tries to go.

Stush, Magnificent coppertone flower. I have not had the luxury to see any flowers of my Sans......yet

Update;

Tried to cross pollinate but flowers die the next day. Remaining flowers I self pollinated. Now wait for berries? Got berries forming on my other Sans right now.

Amazing Stush... congrats! In all these years, the only one of my Sans to ever bloom was my ‘Lavranos’... I almost missed it too; luckily my granddaughter noticed it, by that time the flowers were starting to dry up... I was so excited!

Nice flower Mary. Looks almost like a Easter time hyacinth.

Well my 'Coppertone' is finished and looks like an old mop head. Hope some berries form.

My Sans Coninna Spoon is blooming again. Noticed the old bloom stock now with barries.

It has a similar bloom as did Coppertone did. But bloomed all or mostly at once. Don't konw what pollinated it. No other sans was close to it so I don't think it will be a hybrid.

Top view

I’m jealous! Wish I could get blooms like you do, Stush.

Barb, looking at your plants, I'm the one who jealous. But thank you.

Haha! We have done some good swaps over the years, haven’t we Stush.

Many thanks to some very generous people here and gone. I have their names in the pots of the plants given me. Like the large S. masoniana Norma Lewis gave me. or Russ, or Mike and Chris and a few others. And of course Barb. :-)

I got Seeds!! My Bantel is producing seeds. Can't wait to see what germinates.

Under that mop head is seeds forming. Bottom half was with S. trifasciata, top half was self.

Also got a bunch on my S. coninna Spoon from two flower stocks. It was by itself and guess insects did it for me. None of the other flowering stocks produced any seed.

Cool! I have seeds on my big Fernwood. I also had seeds on my silver queen but didn't realize it until I cut off the dead flower stalk.

Study I think those will be fun seeds to grow!!

Unbelievable flowers on some of those plants - especially the lavranos and the Coppertone!

Here's one from me from this spring.... Pic is not coming up ?

Not exactly sure but I think all seeds from any S. trifasciata will produce plain trifasciata. Of course one out of a hundred could be special but most will be normal. With Coppertone hybridized with a trifasciata will produce some kind of hybrid weather it be worth wile or not.

When I grew Hosta from seed, They all looked alike. Some Blues, some Yellow , but mostly green. No variegation out of thousands that grew. I think variegation comes from sports or old side growth (pups).

Silent, What variety is that, (Schweinfurhia) erythraeae?

Good morning guys,

That's cylindrica. I found these two giant mother plants in a little mom n pop greenhouse in Virginia a few years ago.

I hope you did them right by planting them up in a 5 to 10 gal. pot. They are impressive. Mine is way smaller and about 5 years old in about a 2 qt. pot. I only seen growth like that marlonmachado = Marlon Machado showed in Brazil.

I don’t think I have seen a cylindrica in flower before. Maybe it’s a good idea to let them crowd the pots.

Barb, 'Marionmachado' used to post here. He show his in flower and he grew more from their seeds. He showed the whole process he went thru. I guess warm and moist is what they need. My house is too cold in the winter and may be why they are stunted.

Forgot about this one!

Jude's ideas · More Info

Jude, I never saw a Moonshine flower. Nice. My other futura flower a lot but not my Moonshine.

Interesting! I wonder if there is some kind of trigger for individual species to flower based on their habitat? When they flower, it is always a surprise - a nice one at that.

Yes plants do have triggers to make them flower. The most common is light / dark interval. Some or another is when soil nutrients are in the right order. Some when threatened and want to survive. Don't know all the reasons or combination of same.

The most rarest of all is the hahnii group. Due to them being a freak of nature being small they almost never bloom. Juan Chahinian (Author) said that it is a Sanseveria trifasciata stuck in it's juvenile stage.

Very interesting - I've never seen a hahnii type flowering, I don't think.

This is the second time I have heard reference to this person - Juan Chahinian. I would love to find a copy of his Sansevieria book. Do you know the name of the book?

Books are out of print and sells for about $400. Might find one cheaper sometimes.

The Splendid Sansevieria by Chahinian B.J.

and

'The Sansevieria Trifasciata Varieties: A Presentation of All Cultivated Varieties', by B. Juan Chahinian.

I have the second one. Stocks Tropicals had the first one for $35 plus $11 shipping. Due to the outrageous shipping price I never bought it. Now only can buy used.

He posted updates to his books but only in 'The Sanseveria Journal in the international Sanseviera Soc.

There's a new one in Germany but not in english yet. Unknown author. Seems nobody does a Sans book now.

Hermine Stover's Sans book is also out of print but she offered free downloads. Don't know if still doing it.

Thank you for the book info - I'll have to do some nosing around and see if I can't get them relatively inexpensively.

Stush, That Coppertone was spectacular. Concinna was lovely too! Please keep us updated with how the seeds grow.

Nancy, my Silver Queen bloomed as well! Produced seeds but they turned to mush. Did your go to seed at all?

i love seeing everyone’s flowers and reading about their experiences!

Vito, The actual seeds would not turn into mush. Sounds like the fruits turned to mush and you didn't remove the seeds from the fruit?

I too had some seed pods that were duds. They flowered in my basement and was the only one blooming at the time and no insects to pollinate it. Fruits formed but no seeds. (mush). On pollinated ones, after the fruit turns red, I removed the seeds from the mush and let dry out a few days them plant them. They are the size of a pea and whitish. Usually 3 seeds to a pod.

Good to know, Stush. Unfortunately I haven't had any seeds on my flowers as yet - they were all inside while flowering and weren't pollinated.

Have you tried hand-pollinating, Stush?

Best, Jude

Yes and showed pictures of my Coppertone that I did it with. so far, I see about 5 pods forming. Hopefully i'll get more. I used pollen from my Sans trifasciata that was blooming at the time.

Fantastic! Fingers crossed!

Started this one from a leaf cutting a few years ago. This spring it produced 3 flower stalks!!!!. Will the rosettes that flowered still grow? Or should i start fresh with its pups and discard the rosettes that flowered?

Jay,

Similar to agave they will stop growing but unlike agave, they are still very much alive. No new leaves or new growth but as long as the leaves are there, they will continue to feed the plant and give more strength to the new pups that will be forming giving you a bigger fuller pot. I have some that bloomed and continue to live on for many years now. Not unsightly or anything wrong with it.