I'm currently tending 3 plants. The oldest which is over 10 years old now was grown from a cutting bought at the Denver stock show of all places! Up until last year it had been in a pot and overwintered dormant " waking it up " with water and light fertilization in February. This past winter I just didn't have any room in the house with all the bananas so took a chance and bare rooted it in the root cellar planting it directly in the ground in early May. It's had the best flowers ever. It's tucked behind a large E. Glaucum and a Yucca Rostrata so these were the best pics I could come up with without breaking out a ladder and possibly a neck
It's been flowering profusely all season, if you look close there's buds all over it.
Like Clare had mentioned the seedlings are completely variable. Here's the two "3 kings " seedlings I kept that sprouted this year...my first ever from seed. Both of them have branches at a small size and this is a first since the other only seems to branch after flowering. Not sure it comes across well in the pic but one of them has a distinctly reddish stem while the other is more green. It'll be interesting to see how they develop and what color the flowers will turn out when they finally come. I'll try to keep these actively growing indoors through the winter for at least the first year.
