April pictures and chit chat

Oh Boy!
Tamberlin sent a box of leaves! I've got streps again! Whoopee!
Thank you Thank you Thank you.

That's great news!

Hi everyone,

Beautiful pictures! Your off to another awesome month of blooming beauties.

Hey kivit,nice to see you around the garden again!

This is the second seedling to bloom from seed labeled Sinningia 96014 Sweden.

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That's one pretty mini, Jan! I really like the spotting.

Really pretty Jan.Did you get my email?

Lynn

This rhizome kinda scared me when I was getting ready to repot this Kohleria. lol

It looks kinda' extraterrestrial !

Morning all,

First picture is from the same package of seed, Sinn. 94016 Sweden.Much darker pink,almost magenta
second picture,the 2 sisters.

Got the email Lynn!

Oops,please excuse my fancy waterer, I forgot to crop it out.LOL.

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Beautiful! The darker one is nice and vigorous. I like the foliage as well.

Sinningia speciosa 'Claire Roberts'

Sinningia 'HCY's Coral Candy' x self

Sinningia 'California Gold' x leucotricha, 'Ozark Scentimental Journey', araneosa, 'Seminole', eumorpha "Saltao" x piresiana

Great Sinns. Jan and Olaf!

Lynn

Thanks, Lynn!

Here's Primulina/Chirita tamiana, Saintpaulia 'Cirelda' and Sinningia 'Country Tiger' x self

great pictures everyone. And jannich, thanks for showing your waterer pot. I never thought of saving alls those yogurt pots and lids. I save the pots for rooting small plants, but now I will save the lids too! Great idea. Thanks

Since there's not much blooming right now but plenty of my Sinningias are showing buds, I thought, I'd show some pictures of Sinningia-buds...

The first two pictures is Sinningia eumorpha "Saltao" x piresiana

The third picture is Sinningia 'California Gold' x leucotricha

The fourth picture is Sinningia 'Orange Zinger'

And the fifth picture is Sinningia araneosa showing no buds but plenty of fuzz... :)

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And some blooms:

Sinningia 'HCY's Coral Candy' x self and Sinningia speciosa 'Claire Roberts'




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Sinningia araneosa showing no buds but plenty of fuzz... :) That's a cool looking plant!

Lynn

Thanks, Lynn! I love fuzzy plants and S. araneosa is no exception. :)

Violet-babies... :)

Saintpaulia 'Rob's Tippy Toe', 'Lil' Runaround', 'Ness' Dynomite' and 'Cirelda'

Awesome sinns and very cute babies, thay all look so happy. I never thought of sphagnum moss for AV leaves, did it work better than potting mix?

Thanks, Maria!

Well, to be honest, my track record with Violet leaves isn't the best but I get good results in chopped Sphaghnum. I also mix a handful of those SoilMoist-polymer crystals in the mix when I soak the Sphaghnum. I find it easier to keep the moss moist when I do that.

Olaf

Sounds interesting and definitely very creative idea. Have to try it with epicsia stolons, these like to play possum on me:)

Yep! Agreed on the fuzzy plants! S. leucotricha is a killer when you see an old tuber with many crowns in full bloom.

I don't grow S. leucotricha but will get a tuber as soon as I find one for a reasonable price. I just don't have the patience anymore to grow a plant for several years until the first bloom.

That's why I'm so happy with my S. 'California Gold' x leucotricha. The plant seems to have a good amount of the silver leucotricha hairs and it's only in it's third growth cycle. I hope that it has inherited the "increasing fuzziness with age"-gene from leucotricha... :)

Sinningia 'California Gold' x leucotricha:

Those are cool plants :) I am trying to find S. Bullata and leucotricia as you say "at a reasonable price". We should be getting another offer for seeds from Crosswords so I will look for those along with micro sinns. Out of the last seeds I ordered, only one pack came up. I think we get old seeds sometimes.

Maria, I don't do well growing A.V. leaves in moss. They seem to rot on me but I can root strep leaves and Episcia in it. Episcia seems to love it. I also rooted a cutting of my S. Blue Dandy. It did awesome in that moss too :)

Connie

Thanks Connie!

Sinningia bullata is one of my favorite Sinningias and my big plant is getting ready to bloom again. :)

Bullata looks like it grows that stuffing I buy to wrap plants with LOL

Connie

Yep! And just like that stuffing wants to stick to everything, EVERYTHING will stick to S. bullata's fuzz... LOL

Check your messages, Connie...

I was wondering about getting perlite or soil in it and how easy it would be to get off. Didn't know it would be sticky. WOW!!

Connie

Here are some micro mini Sinningias:

S. 'Lil' Tiger', 'Mighty Mouse', 'Treva McDaniel', 'Freckles' and pusilla 'White Sprite'

And this is Gesneria pedicellaris.

They are all in bloom and happy. I think I know where I can get Little Wood Nymph a little later.

Connie

Yes, ma'am! :)

The Sinn. Leuc. I bought back in 2007 had a caudex almost 5 inches across!
It was gorgeous when it bloomed.
I lost it two winters ago to my own neglect... I was very sad!
I have just now bought and received a new one...
Much smaller... The caudex is only about an inch and a half across.
But I am happy to have it back!

You will have to share a pic when it blooms Karen!

Connie

I know, that's right! S. leucotricha is gorgeous and like a good wine - it gets better with age! :)

Wanted to try and show pics from my old Sinn. leucotricha...
Went back to some old threads and found some...

This is when it would first start to bloom...
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=6295527

And this is how big it would be by the time blooming finished...
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=6295572


I really miss this plant! *sigh*

You did a great job growing your previous one Karen. Won't be long until your new one will be a wow factor also. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the fuzzy ones :)

Connie