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Guz. sanguinea tricolor
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Posted by atmccmn (My Page) on Sat, Sep 15, 07 at 22:19
It's a gloomy and rainy day for me this weekend. All are wet and nothing much I can do.
While browsing through my garden, I'm startled to find my Guz. sanguinea tricolor is coming into bloom.
The leaves are starting to turn red but still no visible flower head yet.
Here it is (the photos are a bit underexposed).
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RE: Guz. sanguinea tricolor
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| oooooh! so lovely! enough to brighten up the gloomiest of days - enjoy! :) |
RE: Guz. sanguinea tricolor
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| That's a beauty! Guz. sanguinea is so hard to propagate, though. |
RE: Guz. sanguinea tricolor
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| Andy, I will take one more rainy week if that plant comes with the rain! Stunning!! Good thing it is not fully coloured up otherwise I might have offered to accept a MONTH of rain! Japie |
RE: Guz. sanguinea tricolor
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- Posted by hanwc Malaysia (My Page) on
Mon, Sep 24, 07 at 0:29
Here is my. Guz snaguinea var brevipedicellata. Not sure if it is the same as tricolor.
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RE: Guz. sanguinea tricolor
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- Posted by hanwc Malaysia (My Page) on
Mon, Sep 24, 07 at 3:51
| Oops the picture might be too small. Here you go for a piture of larger size. Guz ansguinea var brepedicellata 
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RE: Guz. sanguinea tricolor
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| Those are both very nice Guzmania's. Trouble over here is you can only buy 'm in flower. That means a dead Guz in a few months. Or do they pup easy? Hanwc, if you lost your marbles, I found 'm! :-) |
RE: Guz. sanguinea tricolor
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- Posted by hanwc Malaysia (My Page) on
Mon, Sep 24, 07 at 6:30
| Hmm, the Sanguineashow in the photo already has pups now. However, it is a bit adventurous to remove the pup as they grow from the stem of the plant ranther than from the base. Either mother plant or pup can be damaged easily. Perhaps someone can give me some tricks to that. |
RE: Guz. sanguinea tricolor
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| You need the skills of a brain surgeon to remove the offset on these . It can be done , but there is always the chance you will kill the plant . A newbie grower I know removed the pup from a Vr. splendens and then got several more pups . I was amazed !! |
RE: Guz. sanguinea tricolor
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| From what I was told, it only produce a pup or two before die off. Not so productive plant ;-) |
RE: Guz. sanguinea tricolor
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| It usually only produces a single "replacement pup", i.e. one offset after blooming, from right in the center of the plant, that fills out and covers the mother. You can have several generations of pups stacked on top of each other looking like a single plant. This is fine if you just want to grow and rebloom the plant, but if you want to make more, good luck! There's no way to remove it without killing it, or the mother, or both. If you have several generations, though, sometimes you can go in there and cut off the top two together, and if there's any life left in the bottom part it might give you another pup. Or it might not. ;-) Occasionally it will give two pups at once, and then you can simply cut the whole plant in half, but whatever you do will involve sacrificing some part of the plant. There is a small form of it that is just a dark red, no orange or yellow-- I can't remember the name, but that one self-seeds, so you can propagate it that way. The larger, more desireable varieties like the ones shown here don't self, although if you had two different clones you could probably cross them and get seeds that way. I don't know how they produce them commercially, unless it's by tissue culture. |
RE: Guz. sanguinea tricolor
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| Thanks, for the advice, they're very cheap and nice, but I'll stay well away from them. Garden centers over here carry dozens of varieties.
All from tissue culture, made by the thousands, by Cornelis Bak. Check the link below.
"How many Guzmania's in that middle picture? I think 20,000." Sander |
Here is a link that might be useful: Corn. Bak
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