even more Longifolium variation

[Rick]

Back in April I posted a couple of pics of my longifolium flowers that were about 21 cm on petal span, with light and dark flowers on side by side spikes.

Well some of the same spikes are still blooming, but producing another flower variant. The petal span is only 16 cm, but the pouch is heavily spotted.


Here's the flowers.

A closeup of the pouch


Some closeups of the big April flowers.

 

[McPaph]

Nice one Rick. Do you think the different flower spikes are from someone planting a couple of seedlings together?

 

[SlipperFan]

Good looking longifolium. Mine is flowering very green now. Usually the pouch is quite dark, but it's been so warm here, the color is faded.

 

[slippertalker]

It is interesting how much effect heat and light differences have on phrag flowers......

 

[Rick]

Nice one Rick. Do you think the different flower spikes are from someone planting a couple of seedlings together?

This is all the same plant. In fact some of these are the exact same spikes with comparative blooms from 3 months ago.

 

[Rick]

Good looking longifolium. Mine is flowering very green now. Usually the pouch is quite dark, but it's been so warm here, the color is faded.

Yes quite a bit of difference. However in this case its hotter in my GH now than in April, and the flowers have more pigment.

It may be nutrition thing

 

[John M]

Very interesting illustration. Thanks.

Good looking longifolium. Mine is flowering very green now. Usually the pouch is quite dark, but it's been so warm here, the color is faded.

Well, we do know that temperature affects the colour of besseae and it's hybrids. Maybe that's true for all Phrags; but, it's not so evident in the green flowered species. I've got some normally crimson red besseas opening now that are more of a pastel-toned orange instead. But, last week was HOT, just as the buds were fattening up.

 

[NYEric]

I've got some normally crimson red besseas opening now that are more of a pastel-toned orange instead. But, last week was HOT, just as the buds were fattening up.

Thanks for the photos John! oke:

 

[SlipperKing]

I think mine are doing the samething Rick.

 

[SlipperKing]

The hincks varity is very washed out as well.

But the buds are still dark as they develope

 

[biothanasis]

Gorgeous!

 

[jewel]

interesting, hippeastrums do the same thing. seems like i read somewhere that red and other warm colored flower pigments are slightly unstable and depending on the temperature can intensify or become more of a non noticeable pastel shade.

 

[Rick]

I think mine are doing the samething Rick.

That flower does have the same, more intense spotting on the back of the pouch. Is the flower to the low end of its size range?

That spotting reminds me of some of the spotting on what was called "braziliense"


If one were to see these flowers in absence of what they looked like in April they'd probably end up as "longifolium var. tigrinum" oke:oke:

 

[SlipperKing]

GH cultured var "tigrinum". The flowers are of the size seen in April to me anyways. The is a new spike for the plant flower #3, maybe. this spike will be a round come fall when I begin to increase the Epson's again. The colors will become strongly pigmented once again.

 

[SlipperFan]

Why wait until Fall???

 

[SlipperKing]

Dot I found out that too much such as 0.2oz (6g) per 50gal of water for extended peroid of time causes flower mutation in the longfolium alli and it's hybrids. Currently I'm adding ~1g to 50g. When I get back from vacation in Aug I'll try increasing to 2g and see what happens.

 

[SlipperFan]

That's interesting. I wonder why.

 

[goldenrose]

...... Currently I'm adding ~1g to 50g. When I get back from vacation in Aug I'll try increasing to 2g and see what happens.

:sob: OMG Are my plants epsom salts starved? Isn't 1T./gal. the general recommended amount? I'm having a hard time imagining dumping two 1/2gal. containers of epsom salts into my 50 gal. barrel.

 

[SlipperFan]

I think g = grams, not gallons oke:

 

[goldenrose]

I think g = grams, not gallons oke:

:clap: :rollhappy: thanks Dot - I don't think my fever's broke yet!