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sandy0225
02-27-2010, 12:12 PM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29904&size=1
34/50 sprouted and survived = 68%
my personal best before was 58%...woo hoo!
the largest ones are three weeks old now. One is already big enough to ship, with 4" diameter pads.
LilRaverBoi
02-27-2010, 01:57 PM
Very nice, Sandy! Glad to hear of your successes. So how do you ship such a thing?
PS...excellent use of that recycled cattle trough!
saltydad
02-27-2010, 09:36 PM
Now all I need is a pond as big as my back yard!!!
alexizhere19
02-28-2010, 02:45 AM
very nice,
alex
MediaHound
02-28-2010, 09:28 AM
Nice, got any pics of the flowers?
Bananaman88
02-28-2010, 10:07 AM
I love these! I can remember when some of our horticulturists at MBG used to come in at night to pollinate them (the natural pollinator is a moth in S. America) and then wait to see if the pollination took. They are definitely cool plants.
MediaHound
02-28-2010, 10:20 AM
Ahh, these are the giant ones with the white flowers, correct?
saltydad
02-28-2010, 05:29 PM
It starts out as white than turns rose pink.
http://www.victoria-adventure.org/victoria_images/longwoodhybrid/lh_plant_th.jpg
http://www.victoria-adventure.org/victoria_images/2002_longwood/lh_7_7_1.JPG
http://www.victoria-adventure.org/victoria_images/2002_longwood/lh_9pm.jpg
LilRaverBoi
02-28-2010, 05:59 PM
Ahhh! Yes, I've seen these at the MO Botanical Gardens...very cool!
Bananaman88
02-28-2010, 08:42 PM
I was friends with the guy who took care of the one's at MBG and when a leaf started to die at come apart, he'd have to take a pitch fork to lift it out of the water to protect his hands from the thorny underside.
LilRaverBoi
02-28-2010, 09:51 PM
They're thorny? They look like they'd be slimy....interesting! Always great to learn new things!
Bananaman88
03-01-2010, 04:24 PM
Yes, they are very thorny on the undersides, I presume to protect them from grazing fish/other animals.
sandy0225
03-01-2010, 05:01 PM
this picture shows the thorns, kind of. They're real sharp like a rose.
poised to pull out of pond pictures from gardens photos on webshots (http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1410706773058549380iRHOPh?vhost=home-and-garden)
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