Bromeliad meeting auction

This is what happen if I don't go to a Bromeliad meeting when they have a auction with my wife.

Aechmea 'Blue Tango' with a large pup

 She said she always want one, so now I have to take care of it.
Can you believe at Stokes Tropicals it go's for $104.95.

xEnchotia Ruby

 This plant was in the sales room and the auction at the WBC I didn't want because it gets way to big.
Take a look at this link of Ray with plant in flower.
http://nixwickedgarden.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/xenchotia-ruby.jpg

I have seen this plant at Tropiflora every time I've been there but I have not seen it with any offsets.

UPDATE Aug 11, 2013

Tropiflora had a few on it's VIPP for $75ea and in it's description it said that the 5 plants for sale came from  "offsets of the original clone". So I guess it does make offsets. Maybe they got them by stabbing the plant?

 

 Oh well some thing for ebay.

 

Neoregelia Luca

Don't know why she got this, she said no one wanted it, sooo she bid and won. I see why.


She comes home with plants she thinks I want and plants she wants but don't water or look at it ever again.

Love her anyway.

WBC Rare Plant Auction

The WBC Rare Plant Auction only had a few plants that I had any interest in see photo's below.

Dyckia dawsonii x (Arizona x Brittle Star small)

Dyckia reitzii rubra x Snaggletooth

Enchotia Ruby

Navia arida 

 Did not win this but, I tried

Cryptanthus leopoldo-horstii green form

  I won this one

Cryptanthus leopoldo-horstii silver form

 I won this one

Orthophytum zanonii

Did not win this but, I tried

Dyckia burle-marxii and Dyckia Dakota

I have Dyckia burle-marxii already and Dyckia Dakota was not that good of a clone.
Opening bit on Dyckia Dakota was if I remember correctly was $300 and no one bit on it. Was taken off the auction with no bits but came back for the 1st person who would bid $250, it sold but not to me.


Their was one other Orthophytum in the auction but I did take a photo of it because it didn't look like a Orthophytum.
I didn't look at all the tags of the auction plants and that Orthophytum I thought was a Neoregelia.
When it came up for auction I found out it was a Orthophytum. I was red with 2 pups on stolons, very cool looking. I messed up on that one.