Hello Jorgen, You have a point there indeed. If you take a smal part of the growing point or a very smal meristem the variegation patern may get changed or...
Dear Aart, In your e-mail you mentioned you germinated in vitro "miniature seeds with a normal embryo" . What do you mean exactly by "miniature seeds"? Are...
James Comstock
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Dec 2, 2003 1:30 pm
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Streaked plants, and clivia is no exception, are inherently unstable . They might in time change to more stable periclinal chimeras That is to say with a...
Aart, You refer mainly to the in vitro topic but in passing you mention how leaves absorb food. I would like to take this further. Which do you recommend:...
Hello James, With miniature seeds I mean seeds with smal amount of endosperm from crosses that also produce normal seeds, in the case of the photo a cross...
Hallo John, I must say, in general I question the benefit of foliar feed, but I know some people say they have good results. I always ask myself what part of...
Hi, there, this is Wang Fang from China. Attached is a picture from a clivia website showing a top quality Chinese daruma plant. I love this kind of daruma...
I am interested in cultivating clivias for the cut flower industry. If you have any insight into the following, please respond. Do clivias make a long lasting...
Hello to All, I wanted to share some pictures of my visit with Joe Solomone. My friend Sam and I had the pleasure of meeting Joe, Manuel and Joe's Nurse this...
And The last shot of Joe motoring around showing us his plants. This is the area where Joe's Nurse found the plant with the 164 mm leaf. Thanks again Joe....
Hello, I think this plant is very exciting!!!! It is almost pure yellow!!!!! It sure looks healthy and it has such a small strip of green!!!! Has it...
Beautiful, very interesting. Do you sell seeds???I am living in Holland. Greatings Ton Wijnen...
Ton Wijnen
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Dec 4, 2003 12:25 pm
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Hi, Joe solomone does sell some seed. Please use this web address ; http://www.cliviahybrids.com/ , to get more information. Tom Southern California...
Hi, The variegated plant at Joe's was started as a seedling in 1999. It has received, according to Manuel Morales, Joe's son-in-law, no special treatment. It...
Hell ellelaloy and all, I personally use Clivias as cut flowers in my home. I primarily use the plants that I'm not interested in working with, the flower...
Hallo Erika I am glad you managed to get a plant from the collection of your late father. I think many of us have special Clivias - not special in the sense...
A C Vlok
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Dec 4, 2003 4:04 pm
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Do you realize that these plants usually only bloom one flower stalk a year and it would take a major undertaking to get them to bloom out of season. It would...
I have a small amount of seed available (from the crosses below) if anyone in the U.S. is interested... 1.)Mid-Stripe Daruma x 'Pink Perfection' 2.)'Pink...
Jim, Ben, <<YwShortlWuJin>> I was looking through my file of images of Chinese Clivias and found a photo of a yellow-leaved Clivia posted by Wu Jin on 17 Nov...
Hi Victor Yes, I agree, Clivia do last well as a cut flower and have wonderful impact. I have attached a photo of an arrangement my sister did for our NZ...
Hi All, If anyone has available stock, I am interested in purchasing a mature plant or young offset of Clivia 'Adam', and Clivia 'lollipop'. I look forward to...
Jerrie and all, This isn't necessarily true. I've been carefully selecting my peaches so they have multiple stalks at at a time and they most likely will...
Hi all, Besides Sahin's "Twins", a strain developed to reliably give two scapes per fan, many of the Belgian hybrids produce seconds scapes some seasons. Jim...
Matthew: Adam belongs to Jim Comstock and Lollipop is mine. I may be able to get you an offset in the near future of Lollipop. Harold ... Prof. Harold...
Harold Koopowitz
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Dec 6, 2003 7:48 am
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Hello, Does anyone have pictures of these two? They sure sound pretty. carol west...
Carol, You will have to get yourself a copy of "Clivias" written by Harold Koopowitz with superb photogaphy by James Comstock. Then you will see some very...
