Re: Clivia
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  • Subject: Re: Clivia
  • From: P* E* <g*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 20:23:58 -0500
me too - that's incredible!!

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Zemuly <zemuly@comcast.net> wrote:

> Auralie, I can't tell you how impressed I am that you grew clivia from
> seed. That is truly an amazing accomplishment from my perspective.
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 28, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Now I know why Clivias are so expensive.
> >
> > Several years ago Jim generously sent me a beautiful yellow Clivia when
> > my old one that I had grown from a tiny seedling died.  The new yellow
> > thrived and bloomed.  I think I sent Jim a picture.
> >
> > I had read somewhere of a fantastic price for Clivia seeds - $5.00 apiece
> > or something like that, so I when the flowers faded and seemed to have
> > set seed, I let them stay instead of deadheading it.  Well, that was in
> > the summer of 2010.  This January, a good eighteen months later, the
> > stem still stood with five marble-sized fruits, and finally one seemed to
> > split a bit.  I carefully peeled off some of the pod and planted it in a
> > pot - l
> > eft the others on the stem.  After about six weeks, a couple of blades
> > appeared - nearly an inch.  By now the others were looking as if they
> > might split, and the stem was beginning to look dried.  I took off the
> > other seeds - gave two to good gardening friends and planted the other
> two.
> >
> > At last one of the other two has sent up a tiny blade.  At this rate I
> > don't
> > expect to live to see these plants grow to blooming size, so maybe I'd
> > better put these seedlings in my will.  Wish some of you were near
> > enough that I could share, but don't think I would dare try to ship
> > these tiny fragile seedlings.
> >
> > Auralie
> >
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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