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Pond Chat / Re: Tropical's containers..I love osmocote..thanks Joyce..

« on: September 15, 2009, 12:29:45 PM »

If you get tubers, plant them when it is not too cold.
Leave the growing tip above the soil line and one or more plants can begin to grow depending on the size of the tuber and the number of "eyes".

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Lily Fest in San Angelo

« on: September 15, 2009, 09:12:55 AM »

No, I am the only one and that is because the proceeds go back into supporting the collection.
But for the most part I usually take more rare material so it is a good opportunity for those that are there.
This year with the bad rain, I had taken 10 plants but did not even mess with selling them in those conditions.
I just had to get out in the rain Sunday morning and pack them back up to bring back home.

Now with the IWGS Symposium there next year for Lily Fest we are going to have a big auction on plants, products etc. for sure.
That will be on the weekend of September 18th, 2010.
I hope any and all of you who are members of the IWGS can come down for the show of the century combined with great fellowship with other growers, hybridizers and enthusiasts.
We are going to have more than 200 varieties and cultivars on display and that might end up being a conservative number when we are done.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Tropical's containers..I love osmocote..thanks Joyce..

« on: September 15, 2009, 09:06:12 AM »

If you never get cold then they do not have to go dormant.
Mine usually bloom until the end of November and then some types start back up in February and March depending on the year.
The ones I put into the greenhouse... just PVC pipe and 6 mil plastic with no heat added... bloom throughout the year but really get small.
Stressing the plant by cramping it, starving it or even floating it with no soil usually leads to tuber production as the plant thinks it is going to die and that triggers a reproductive tubering process.
Since you don't get cold though, I might just leave it alone and see what happens.
Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Victoria Longwood

« on: September 15, 2009, 07:20:41 AM »

Thanks Louis and Maryvonne.
My first plant looks like it will bloom tonight or tomorrow.
My third which got started about 6 weeks later now has two buds down in the cradle. ( my term as they are like babies at that point).
One of my Euryale Ferox had 2 flowers and 2 buds on it yesterday.
Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Lily Fest in San Angelo

« on: September 15, 2009, 07:12:21 AM »

Yes, the rain definitely put a damper on things.
The lilies however didn't care. They loved the additional humidity.
Even though the cold front had dropped it into the 60's there,
the water temps had not dropped and with warm growing conditions, they bloomed their heads off.
Thanks for the compliments. There is a story behind almost every one of those pictures.
New hybrids, very very old hybrids that no one has, species material, one of a kind plants etc.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Tropical's containers..I love osmocote..thanks Joyce..

« on: September 15, 2009, 07:07:14 AM »

Howell,
You should not worry about losing Dauben.
Just keep throwing your vivips into that bucket and even if you lose most due to snow ice etc,, you
will still have a few that survive and you only need one or two to restart the process next year.

Now since the night bloomer is obviously not a vivip, you need a different strategy.
Near the end of your growing/blooming season if you have an end... starve the plant and or restrict it's growing space.
If it runs out of food or becomes root bound it will start making smaller pads, slow down on flower production and begin making tubers.
Night bloomers usually make "lots" of tubers. If you have a cold winter at all, you can pull the plant from the pot, wash of the osmocote filled soil
and then repot it into clean virgin (unfertilized) soil to try and force the tubering process.
I would recycle the osmocote soil and plant a few Dauben vivips in it.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Lily Fest in San Angelo

« on: September 15, 2009, 06:57:34 AM »

No they are not for sale, it is a collection on display.
There are booth areas set up for support, advertising sales etc.
I do sell some or auction them off at Lily Fest usually though.
It helps me pay for the web space I use for our site.
I buy new releases of lilies each year and donate them to the collection so that is also where the money goes for any that I sell.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Lily Fest in San Angelo

« on: September 14, 2009, 09:46:01 PM »

oops... I forgot... one more for now... the collection before the rain hammered us.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Lily Fest in San Angelo

« on: September 14, 2009, 09:43:23 PM »

The last shots for now.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Lily Fest in San Angelo

« on: September 14, 2009, 09:27:16 PM »

Still more...

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Pond Chat / Re: Lily Fest in San Angelo

« on: September 14, 2009, 09:25:03 PM »

Some more shots...

102

Pond Chat / Lily Fest in San Angelo

« on: September 14, 2009, 09:23:17 PM »

Lily Fest was Saturday in San Angelo.
This was the update on Sat morning...
Rain has been sitting on top of us for 3.5 days now. Still flash flooding going on outside.. But this has been the most drought hit area in the U.S. for quite some time so it is a good thing for the area and the economy. The hard rain did not deter the die hard fans. We had about 50 or so during Lily Fest to see the dedication of Dr. Ralph 'Rafael' Chase' waterlily. I will post some pics when I get home.
This was the update for after the fact...
Well the turnout was dampened in more ways than one by the weather. Last year there were about 250 in attendance. This year it was closer to 75 it looks like from going through the pictures. Those who braved the weather saw some cool new stuff and really enjoyed the event. There were snacks provided by the Council of Garden Clubs. We had quite a few door prizes that were given out as well.
We were the lead story on the KLST news Saturday even over the weather so that was pretty cool.

Now on to what you guys expect from me... some pix.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: pretty leaves

« on: September 09, 2009, 08:08:58 PM »

Hey Mike,
Ken is looking at the stuff on here with me...
He said don't toss that pad...

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Victoria Longwood

« on: September 09, 2009, 04:51:34 PM »

Thanks all.
I think they are cool.
However they are the midgets of the world.
I am now down in San Angelo and Ken's are monsters.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Moore is Less

« on: September 09, 2009, 04:48:21 PM »

I only have the blue form. It hold itself true in regrowing the blue from it's seed.
I crossed a couple different ones that I had vivip'd off back into the mother plant and the seed came up the same.
Does the white ever show any variability when you cross back into it? I have not had it to play with.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Moore is Less

« on: September 07, 2009, 08:33:57 PM »

Hey Craig,
What parentage gave you the red stem?
You haven't had time to cycle through the N. pulchella yet but the bud is reminescent of it.
Is it some kind of an N. ampla cross? The pads look really different.
The bud shape reminds me of some of my N. minuta crosses.
Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: What a lily

« on: September 06, 2009, 04:35:07 PM »

I found another view and it confirmed what I thought.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: IWGS Waterlily Competition

« on: September 06, 2009, 03:37:27 PM »

Yes, unfortunately there were only 4 tropicals and 8 hardies entered this year.
I think turtlemike ought to enter a few of his babies next year.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: What a lily

« on: September 05, 2009, 08:12:00 PM »

Big pads can support quite a bit of weight.
They cannot handle high pounds per square inch in specific areas though.
Usually something is laid into the pad to evenly distribute the weight.
At first I thought the picture showed water in the pad but I think it is probably a clear plexiglass circle... look closely around the child.
I've seen plywood laid into one and a teenager standing on it so that the weight was evenly distributed.
The girl had to be carefully placed upon the plywood by a couple people so that there was an even weight distro upon touch down.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: IWGS Waterlily Competition

« on: September 04, 2009, 08:03:59 AM »

Be happy to get the info out to all of you as soon as I get it.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Unique lily - N. Brooklyn Blue

« on: September 04, 2009, 08:02:45 AM »

That's really nice.
Kind of reminds me of N. 'Alexis' and N. 'Sandra Lynn' which I really like.

I think he said that at certain times of year the center changes to more resemble 'WBG'

Now that would be cool to document with a photo spread as they are so different in shape.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Introducing the Queen in her hot tub!

« on: September 04, 2009, 07:57:12 AM »

Great Scott.
Glad you got to enjoy it.
With my work schedule so many times I miss these kinds of things.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Victoria Longwood

« on: September 02, 2009, 09:48:13 PM »

Evening shots as she was getting into the spirit of wearing pink.
She even attracted a cute blue friend.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Victoria Longwood

« on: September 02, 2009, 09:44:16 PM »

Well Vic is all grown up and is now "Pretty in Pink".

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Louis Belloisy's Nymphaea 'Silver Moon' 2nd Place People's Choice Award

« on: September 02, 2009, 08:41:40 PM »

Lou has shown this beauty a few times in the last several months or so.
Here is a link here on AP to the topic in which he posted some pics.

Lou, Hope you don't mind me spreading your info to the masses. 

http://www.americanponders.com/forum/index.php?topic=7292.msg75418#msg75418

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: Victoria Longwood

« on: September 02, 2009, 08:31:29 PM »

Pineapples from about 30 yards with no breeze.
It was pretty strong since it was a still night.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: IWGS Waterlily Competition

« on: September 02, 2009, 11:30:22 AM »

I just received the official names of the F.A.N. waterlilies.

We finally have the names set for the waterlilies. 
 
Purple (4207) - Tanzanite
 
Pink (4407) - Hot Pink
 
Autumn (5007) - Tropic Sunset

So the overall winner in the IWGS and People's Choice is called Nymphaea 'Tanzanite'

Once again a big thanks to all of those who were involved and participated.
I want to assure all of you that as a group we are committed to bringing the "prestige" back to the contest through any needed changes.
The first will be myself trying to get the information out more timely than was done by my predecessors.
Thanks for your support.
Tim

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Pond Chat / Louis Belloisy's Nymphaea 'Silver Moon' 2nd Place People's Choice Award

« on: September 02, 2009, 09:57:55 AM »

The third annual People's Choice Awards for the International Waterlily Competition is complete.
The results were compiled by Tamara Kilbane of Duke Gardens.
They had a total of 1,675 votes this year in the public voting.

The winner's are as follows.

Best Tropical Waterlily
Hybrid #4207 - Florida Aquatic Nurseries

Second Best Tropical Waterlily
Nymphaea 'Silver Moon' - Louis Belloisy

Best Hardy Waterlily
Nymphaea 'Rattana Ubol' - Pairat Songpanich

Second Best Hardy Waterlily
Hybrid 2007-1 - Andreas Protopapas


Congratulations Lou.

Tim

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Pond Chat / Re: IWGS Waterlily Competition

« on: September 02, 2009, 09:54:16 AM »

The third annual People's Choice Awards for the International Waterlily Competition is complete.
The results were compiled by Tamara Kilbane of Duke Gardens.
They had a total of 1,675 votes this year in the public voting.

The winner's are as follows.

Best Tropical Waterlily
Hybrid #4207 - Florida Aquatic Nurseries

Second Best Tropical Waterlily
Nymphaea 'Silver Moon' - Louis Belloisy    Way to go Lou.

Best Hardy Waterlily
Nymphaea 'Rattana Ubol' - Pairat Songpanich

Second Best Hardy Waterlily
Hybrid 2007-1 - Andreas Protopapas

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Pond Chat / Re: IWGS Waterlily Competition

« on: September 01, 2009, 10:36:56 PM »

The waterlily competition works like this from what I have been told... Hybridizers submit an entry and then a plant to be grown out together and photographed in the same environment.
The judges vote based on the photos provided to them. I think there were 12 judges this year.
There are categories for hardy, for tropical and then for an overall winner.
No information has been given on the plants to try and keep bias out of the voting.
Based on what I have seen and been told, we may need to revise how this works but it will be a group effort.
The last three years the plants have been sent to be grown, cared for and photographed at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in North Carolina.
The hardies do not fare as well sometimes the first year, especially those sent from around the world.
There has been specific discussion about waiting until the second year for voting on those entries and I am told a plant
can be entered more than one year so this might be the best scenario for them. I think this is left up to the entrant.

Julles, it is not a photo contest, it is judging based on the plant itself and we will work as an organization to try and refine the process to make it better.
No ma'am I did not enter anything. Maybe in a couple of years when I get some of my newer material to reproduce.
A single plant does not constitute a new item that is supposed to be named and thus should not normally be entered into the contest.
As a hybridizer, think what it would mean if your only plant was sent and then consequently died in someone else's care.

Now as to others voting on their favorite, that has taken place the last three year's on the Duke website.
We are about ready to announce the winners of the People's Choice but I am awaiting some final approvals.
I hope to be able to post that tomorrow.
Please stay tuned...
Tim