moving to a new blog site

I have been busy moving all of this to a new blog site. I think all new items will be on:


Succulent Bromeliads plus

Same name but new address. If the link doesn't work you can try:

http://succulentbromeliads.wordpress.com/

It should work, I hope.

I think my blog on wordpress will let me do a little bit more, but we'll see.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Thank you Len

Who knows what it is?

I have a habit of picking up seeds that I find some times in my travels around Florida. But some times I don't know what they are. I pick a seed of  this a few years ago and I don't remember what or where I got it. I think it came from Key Largo. Can anyone guess what it might be or better yet know what it is?

I like the fat base.

Ananas lucidus Variegated

UPDATE AS OF 7/7/2011

New photos of this plant thats going to flower as of 4/7/2011
I like it more ever day.

The below were photos of the plant about a year ago.

Ananas lucidus and Ananas comosus var. erectifolius is the same plant. But how we have a NEW variegated form and its great looking.

A decorative pineapple with colorful miniature fruit. In spite of its size (over three feet tall), it is still considered a rather small species because of its upright habit. A showy species with slender, stiff but spineless leaves of coppery reddish brown and tennis ball sized, bright red fruit.

Culture: needs full sun - part sun
Allow the plant to dry in-between waterings. Fertilize every 4-week with a balanced fertilizer diluted to ½ the strength recommended on the label.

Ray Lemieux

In July of 2009 Ray Lemieux of Tropiflora gave a talk to our Bromeliad Society of Sarasota. If you don't know who he is, he is the one who cares for and does all the hybrid's on Dyckia's and other terrestrials bromeliads  at Tropiflora.

Hechtia glauca

This is one of the most succulent of the Hechtia, but is a slow grower.
Leaves thick, fat, recurved and have spiny hooks along the leaf margins.
Leaves get up to 18" across.
Leaves are a yellow-green with a turquoisey cast on them (thin dusting) giving it a bit of blue color in the right light. Drought tolerant, but appreciates water.

From: Michoacan, Mexico



Encyclia tampensis- Florida Butterfly Orchid

I don't have a lot of orchids, but this one I've had for about 20 years, give or take. I don't do anything  to it and it flowers every year. It came with me from Illinois (that’s where I'm from originally). It is hanging where it gets sun and rain.

Bromeliad Cultivar Register

Have you gone here yet?

Bromeliad Cultivar Register

 It's a incomplete list of Bromeliad Cultivar's.



It has a short description of the plant, tells you the Seed Parent and Pollen Parent if known. Who did it and when.
It could use more photo's of the plants. But for the most part it has good information.
I don't know if they are looking to add more to the list or add any photo's. I hope so.

Dyckia Winters Edge is not on the list



Didierea madagascariensis

This is one of my favorite succulent plants. I had have it now for about 5 years ( I think, maybe longer).
If you look close you can see a red line, I did this so you can see the spines easier. The leafs are so long and thin the spines are hard to see. It is now about 3.5 feet tall.

The rain

This is the 3rd day of rain. It been dry for the last few month so we need it. Every thing will so much better and come back to life in a few days. It might also stop some of the forest fires we have in Florida right now
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A look out the back door.

Love the sound of rain

Chrome

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If you would like to try it go to:


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With Chrome you can look at this blog in 5 different ways. I think you'll like.  

http://succulentbromeliad.blogspot.com/view/sidebar

http://succulentbromeliad.blogspot.com/view/snapshot

This is only 2 of the 5.

Up-Date on Hechtia

Back in 6/16/2010 I bought two Hechtia's from Guy Wrinkle. This is a up-date on those plants.

They came with little or no roots (see photos). I have to say they did not root to fast it had taken months ( good part of a year) for any roots to take place.

One year later Hechtia sp. Chilpancingo Guerrero is still not rooted all that well.

Hechtia sp. Sierra Guingola did much better and is rooted well.
This is what it said on Guy Wrinkle web-site about the plants.

Hechtia sp Chilpancingo Guerrero

Found only on grey weathered limestone in southern Oaxaca. The red color can be washed out with too much shade and or water. Shade and water helps in getting Hechtia rooted but after this is accomplished give the plant more dun and less water to bring the color back out."

Hechtia sp Chilpancingo Guerrero

6/16/2010

Hechtia sp Chilpancingo Guerrero

6/30/2011

Hechtia sp Sierra Guingola


Looks like grey Tillandsia hanging from the cliffs


Hechtia sp Sierra Guingola



 6/16/2010



Hechtia sp Sierra Guingola

6/30/2011

Euphorbia's

Their is something about Euphorbia's. Lots of different form types to choose from. They come in all sizes from trees to small ball. I'll show some of what I have (don't have that many) and like the best.

 Euphorbia geroldii 

 Euphorbia milii hyb

 Euphorbia barnhartii

 Euphorbia millotii

 Euphorbia tortilis

 Euphorbia iharanae

 Euphorbia leuconeura

 Euphorbia lactea v. variegata White Ghost

 Euphorbia ?

Euphorbia leucocephala

 Euphorbia milii  variegated

Euphorbia ambovombensis

Dyckia choristaminea silver

I picked up this dyckia a few months ago with the tag reading Dyckia choristaminea silver (RC Brazil). ↓

It doesn't look like a Dyckia choristaminea to me the leafs are to fat and to short.

But it does have silver over a redish leaf. Look at the new offsets coming with a nice redish color. ↓

 This Dyckia choristaminea I have had for years, notice the leafs. ↓

This one I picked up last year. But it was labeled Dyckia elisabethae. Only time will tell if it is a Dyckia choristaminea or what the tag reads. Who knows it may get larger and start to look like Dyckia elisabethae. ↓

Two other Dyckia chorestaminea's that come up if you do a Google search are:

Dyckia choristaminea 'Frazzle Dazzle'

Dyckia choristaminea - DWARF Purple Form

I think I need them.

Rare plants for ebay

Have 3 plants I will put on ebay in the next day or so.
It seens like I just got them and I did. But I already had them.
I should keep a list of what I have so I don't bye them over and over agian.

Encholirium horridum ↓

Encholirium subsecundum ↓

Dyckia milagrensis type ↓



Summer sale at Tropiflora

Tropiflora had it's summer sale today so I had to go and see what they had.


It is a Stock Reduction Sale and you never know what they are going to reduce, I'm hoping dyckia.

But no dyckia in the sale. All is not lost I did buy a few dyckia's at full price.

 Stock Reduction Sale in under the tents

It was HOT out there today and it's only 9AM

 

 Dyckia milagrensis

A species had to get it.

 Dyckia reitzii v. rubra x Snaggletooth

I just love the color of this one.

 Encholirium horridum hyb

They said it might be a F2

 Orthophytum sanctum 

I know it looks like Orthophytum glabrum but it's not.

Werauhia sanguinolenta  Rubra 

I had to get it for $5

Cactus with flowers

Sorry I don't know the names of any of these.