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calycium
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PostSubject: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Sun May 11, 2008 8:39 pm
Hi all,
just to help with some IDing, here are a few of my named Gynos

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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Sun May 11, 2008 9:45 pm
Nice Gymnos, wish there was a drool emoticon.
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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Sun May 11, 2008 10:09 pm
Yeah,
my favourite is the ragonesii - hard to grow but wonderful flowers
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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Mon May 12, 2008 1:36 pm
I have a bunch of G. ragonesii, seedlings coming along, they are tiny though, are they pretty slow growing? These seedlings are about, from memory around 5 months old, smaller than a match head haha, can't wait to see them grow big. Maybe I will consider grafting a few.

Those G. baldianum are very tall, mine is more globbose, I wonder why? They certainly don't look etiolated, far from it, they look nice and healthy.
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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Mon May 12, 2008 7:53 pm
mmmmmmmmmmmm ragonesii, i still havent got that one.

Nice stuff calycium. Very Happy
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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Mon May 12, 2008 7:57 pm
When mine decide to actually do a bit of growing, there will be atleast one with your name on it. Actually you came to mind when I bought the seed PD.
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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Mon May 12, 2008 8:56 pm
Yeah,
I have some ragonessi that are about 6 months old and they are less than match head size. I am hoping that they will shoot over next season, but I think it will a four year job before I can let go of them. Very Happy

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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Mon May 12, 2008 9:06 pm
Is it true that all gymnos are the quickest and easiest to get to flower?

Yours are awesome. I love the colours of the horstii - I think I will hunt some of them out.

I look forward to many more gymnos soon Smile
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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Mon May 12, 2008 9:13 pm
Gymnos flower really easily with a lot of light, but generally you need two to be flowering at the same time to cross pollinate them, even save the pollen from one until the other flowers.
Although, having said that - the horstii has never flowered yet and the damsii flowers all the time.
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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Mon May 12, 2008 10:35 pm
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the horstii has never flowered


yeh same calycium.

I will take one of them seedlings off ya hands Trig for sure.
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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Tue May 13, 2008 9:09 pm
Managed to score a couple of hortsii today Smile

One had several wee pups on it to. So I will see how they go. Would love to see if they flower Smile

Chin chin (pun)
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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Tue May 13, 2008 9:32 pm
Hi Slim,
put a pic on... Never seen a horstii with pups Very Happy
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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Tue May 13, 2008 9:42 pm
oh... haha... I took all the pups off Sad HAHAHA

I will see if there's another...
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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Tue May 13, 2008 10:12 pm
Oh NO!!! how embarrassing... it's been a long day and I am tired....

It wasn't a hortsii at all Sad it was a damsii

HAHAHA!!

Please forgive me - I picked it up because it looked so similar - but on closer inspection they're rather not similar!

I am so sorry for the confusion and the excitement - the damsii still has pups, I can post a photo of that if you want... It has two small ones on it and one of the free ones i have taken a photo of as well.
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PostSubject: Re: A few Gymnos to eyeball   Tue May 13, 2008 10:34 pm
Here's one of the babies...




Please don't tell me I am wrong about the species as I got it off a label Smile

and here it is with a couple of it's babies hanging on...

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