A Scottish Kovachii in Spike

[17andgrowing]

Looking good. Congrats!

 

[SlipperFan]

I don't remember seeing so much red on the plant or the spike. Very interesting.

 

[SlipperKing]

Its probable the minerals supplied in his spring water that gives the pink coloring. When I fed my phrags too high of a concentration of Epson's Salts I got strong colorization of the plants and flowers, esp the "green" Phrags

 

[abax]

Great photos! I love the hairy bud peeping out. In the
picture, they look like HUGE spikes. Biker Kov!

 

[Achamore]

This is the same plant's bloom in November 2013. So its kind of like an advance preview. Hope you don't mind..!

 

[Achamore]

I bought this plant from a grower in Germany, who had brought the plants back from one of the two certified nurseries in Peru a few months before. He had 50 adult, blooming size plants, the first to legally enter Europe as far as I know. I drove over to get it from him. Have the CITES doc for it too.

 

[Achamore]

I also took this photo at that time (Nov. 2013) with the kovachii alongside a d'allesandroi. Both came into bloom together, right next to each other in the cool section of the greenhouse, so it seemed appropriate to shoot them together too.

 

[Justin]

lovely

 

[Lmpgs]

Congrats. Both are amazing!!

 

[Cheyenne]

Very nice plant. I wonder which vendor in Peru in actually came from? Alfredo or Peruflora. It has great form and color. On the comments about the water. I remember reading about Epsom salts before and I thought I read it was came from an area around England or Scottland from a spring too. Anyone else have any info on this. Maybe your spring does have some much needed minerals that help the plant.

 

[Achamore]

I've just remembered that I shot a timelapse video of kovachii opening up over 12 days, in December 2012. I'm just uploading it to You Tube, and will post a link once that's done.

Here is one shot from over 16,000 shots that comprised the sequence.

 

[Achamore]

Here's the timelapse video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy3I6L-Tb9E&feature=youtu.be

 

[Denver]

That is AWESOME! Thanks for sharing it.

 

[Achamore]

Glad you liked it!

 

[Linus_Cello]

Here's the timelapse video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy3I6L-Tb9E&feature=youtu.be

This link deserves a sticky
Or ST link of the year

 

[eaborne]

Fabulous video you made!

 

[SlipperFan]

Is it really that color? It's almost blue. It's fabulous!

Wonderful time-lapse.

 

[Marco]

great time lapse video. and great bloom!

Thanks!

 

[abax]

I agree with Linus. ST should keep that video on file forever. The color is gorgeous, but that dorsal always
bothers me a bit. It doesn't seem to belong to the rest of
the flower.

 

[trdyl]

Love the time lapse. Thanks for posting!