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Re: The real grandis

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> >Several vigorous species such as Sans.hyacinthoides, Sans.aethiopica,
> >Sans.subspicata, Sans.parva, etc. produce elongate stolons that will poke
> >through drainage holes and even burst pots. That is why they need to be
> >repotted at least every two years. They also make good candidates for
> >growing in wire hanging baskets. Have you tried that?
>
>I grow plants with all these names EXCEPT for S hyacinthoides.
>         S. parva - a very different plant - I have grown in a basket since
>day one and it makes long thin stolons for a yard and more below the
>basket. When well grown it can be lush and lovely.
>         S. spicata  makes different stolons -more horizontal and
>dangerously spiked leaf tips. The stolons tends to grow up and out of the
>pot -  not burst through.
>         S. aethiopica doesn't make any stolons, but is good at pressing a
>pot apart.
>
>         To the Contrary...S, grandis has never grown out a pot hole, but
>lifts the entire plant and soil mass striaght up out of the pot. The
>stolons are short and thick. Even new plants coming out the bottom of the
>basket (NEVER on the sides) remain very close to the basket-they don't
>cascade donward.  These underside plants also have a habit of forming
>horizontal leaves that 'cup' (to retain water?).
>         As i said very distinctive.


these descriptions are exactly my observations. However, since we are
probably growing plants of the same DNA in some cases anyway...well, i
guess i mean if something is named wrong and that name is stuck to it, it
would be passed along with the division.

be that as it may, and it is, the description of  grandis is exactly right.
i have put busters galore, mainly from not repotting, but grandis grows out
and under benches, and also lifts itself up out of the pot. also mine is a
very dark green with no conspicuous mottling. mature leaves anyway.
i harvest these under-the bench plants all the time. i seldom do this for
anything else except parva or some odd, wayward individual. but when an
order comes in for grandis, the first place i look is under the bench or
out of the pot. i am not sure i ever actually divided grandis, i just
lopped of pups.

hermine
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