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Fri, Feb 1, 08 at 3:04
| LOL (^_^) I thought this giant spiny should be a great bloomer,
but it appears to be quite in conflict with the plant size. Hechtia is among a few bromeliads which have male and female plant or dioecious. Actually, I did hope this plant is a male, so I could cross it with a blooming female Hechtia rosea, but it appears to be the same, female :-( Anyway, I may try to cross them with some Dyckias.
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| That's not what I was expecting either, Chanin! I have one that has never bloomed. I don't know if it's male or female, in fact I didn't even know they were dioecious. Is there any other dimorphism in the plant, or do the males and females look the same apart from the flower? |
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| Hi Lisa, sure a male plant look more muscular LOL ;-)) I think only the flower part that is different. I heard Achmea mariae-reginae |
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| Yeah, I know about the Aechmea and Androlepis, and some people swear they can tell the difference between the male and female plants just by the foliage. I don't know if that's true because I only have females. |
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- Posted by hotdiggetydam (My Page) on Sun, Feb 3, 08 at 12:07
| I don't think they can tell the difference on skinneri without a bloom and recently I discovered there are 4 clones of this plant. All the foliage is a bit different on each clone |
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| Some of my friends have kept Hechtia glauca too, but I found their plants produced quite a lot of pups, while mine never. Would it be the difference?! Anyhow, those plants have never bloomed. |
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| What, you mean real men don't pup? ;-) |
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| LOL..In this case, I guess that the female plant can reproduce by seed, so she need no pup, while male plant has to be the puppier. |
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| Hmmm, thought this looked funny. I just looked up the paper that Utley & Utley described the species. They wrote that the plant is a terminal bloomer not a lateral bloomer. Something seems a bit fishy. Let us know when it blooms again. This seems like an anomalous bloom. -andy |
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