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Sun, May 3, 09 at 18:27
| My small, seed grown, 6 year old aeranthos bloomed but with bloom color characteristics of a nearby T. bergeri. I had not noticed the bloom originally but now, side by side, it's pretty evident that it's a cross. Bergeri on the left, aeranthos right, mine on bottom. Whattya think?
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| By left do you mean right, and right mean left? He he. Surely looks to be a cross. Even the leaf color/size/shape look to be an intermediate. Or is that an illusion? Congratulations on having one bloom from seed! And it being a hybrid too. -andy |
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| I did indeed get my lefts and rights crossed up sdandy. Aeranthos on our left and bergeri on our right. |
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| Nice Gonz!!! |
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| Oh, and I really like the hybrid's color of petals, for some reason the bergeri is a bit too pastel for my personal taste (but not saying that I don't enjoy when they bloom!). Congratulations again on getting a seed to bloom. How many others have you successfully grown to maturity from seed? |
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- Posted by kerry_t_australia 9 (My Page) on Mon, May 4, 09 at 18:52
| Hey Gonz and all, I imagine that would be mighty satisfying to finally achieve a flowering tillandsia specimen from your own sown seed. It certainly does look like a cross between T. aeranthos and bergeri. The opposite cross of those two plants, i.e. T. bergeri x T. aeranthos, is the hybrid T. Bergos. And just for comparison, here is my T. bergeri. Any opinions would be appreciated. Cheers, |
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| Kerry, I have no doubt that you have 'Bergos'. It takes on the leaf color of bergeri but the petal color of aeranthos. The flower bracts look similar to a T. stricta bloom. Nice plants! |
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- Posted by kerry_t_australia 9 (My Page) on Mon, May 4, 09 at 20:11
| Oh good - thanks Gonz! K |
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