Bromeliads- Neoregelias

[Gbarce]

Do you have pictures of Neoregelias??

Thy don't have showy flowers but they make up for it with a variety of leaf colors, shapes and forms

Please share your pictures.

[Gbarce]

Group Shot!

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Lets start with the reds:

Scarlet Charlotte

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Neoregelia "Debbie"

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This was unnamed when I got it

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No name either

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This one of my hybrids

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Red with yellow spots - no name for this one either

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Scarlet Charlotte again - this picture is closer to its actual color.

[Gbarce]

This one is 'eizel jan' a local cultivar.

Green with wide leaves and a rounded tip.  It has a very neat pink edge and the leaf tips have a very neat 'dip' at the thorn.

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A concentrica hybrid

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They also come Variegated--- 'Inkwell'

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Neoregelia 'Crayola'

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Neoregalia 'Kahala Dawn'--hybridized in Hawaii I think

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Another concentrica Hybrid-- this one get big- about 3 feet in diameter

[Really full garden]

Gene,I too love Neos.You have some beautiful plants.I wish we I had a source for these here in Guatemala.

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[ariscott]

Very nice broms everyone. Mine are recovering from neglects at the moment.. not very pretty. But, next year hopefully they will be in their former glory. We just got too much to do...!!!

Anyway, Gene... any new growth on the amherstia? You should post it in the brownea thread....

Regards, Ari

[Gbarce]

Nice collection of Neos there Bren.  You certainly have a lot of the intensely colored varieties.

Ari- yeah I think there is some new growth with the charachteristic "hankerchief" leaves dangling.  Will take a shot this weekend and post in that thread.

[bgl]

I don't know much about bromeliads but I like them! Here's a group of Neoregalias. Forgot the species name but I think it's common. They keep spreading like crazy...

[Gbarce]

Bo-Nice neos!  When I squint my eyes it looks like they are glowing

[PalmsZA]

Right guys, my mission this evening to to get some brom pics from the garden. I will include a few pics of my own Neo hybrids (still small).

[Daryl]

(bgl @ Feb. 27 2008,01:51)

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I don't know much about bromeliads but I like them! Here's a group of Neoregalias. Forgot the species name but I think it's common. They keep spreading like crazy...

Bo, these are Neoregelia compacta ... they like to climb up palm trunks...

Daryl

[PalmsZA]

Hi Guys

Finally got some pics......

Donna

[PalmsZA]

Good for Grace (already flowered and pupping, so not as spectacular as she was)

[PalmsZA]

I cant remember this ones name???

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Treasure chest

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One of my own, still waiting for colour....

[ariscott]

Very nice variegation on that last one... I think it is nice without colouring up. I guess, any colour on top would be a bonus!!

Regards, Ari

[PalmsZA]

Hi Ari

I have a couple of my seedlings that germinated with that very bold variegation. Some not so bold but with stunning pink colouring already. There are so many different plants all from the same mother.....its unbelievable!

Cheers

Dennis

[Gbarce]

Dennis - show us more.  I tried my hand in hybridizing too but I never got any variegated ones-- then again I didn't use and variegated parents.  An it takes about 3 to 4 years before they begin to look distinct from one another.  I get what you mean by teh sibling not looking like one another.  I even heard that when you cross hybrids some of the seedlings revert back to the original forms.

I like the intensely colored ones but my favorites are the ones with the wide and rounded leaves that develope many layers.  they are supposedly the "concentrica" hybrids.

whats your greenhouse set up like for these plants-- can you show us a picture?

[PalmsZA]

Hi Gbrace

To get variegated plants you apparently need a "transmitter" plant. Using the majority of variegated named varieties will get you green or white seedlings 99% of the time...... Most Brom hybridisers wont part with or tell you which plant will pass on the variegation.  If you look at variegated plants you will always see a carolinae or a Car X something as the seed plant most of the time. That is the transmitter. My plant that produces variegated seedlings in un-named, I got it from a mate who visited Chester Skotak...he may well have unwittingly given away a transmitter plant!

I will post a couple more pics tomorrow.

I dont really have a greenhouse setup and all of the plants are grown outside under trees.  I converted an old avery to a coldframe and realised quickly that it got too hot in there for most plants the only plants I have left in there are Piggies and a few other palms that can handle the heat.

Cheers for now.

Dennis

[PalmsZA]

Hi Gene

Below is a pic of the "transmitter" plant, well a pup from it anyway, this plant will give many variegated seedlings.

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and more seedlings

[Gbarce]

Hey cool!! lots of variegated seedlings. How old are those?

So what do you cross the mother plant with?

[PalmsZA]

A little under 2 years old maybe 18 months.......the non-variegated plants are much bigger.

I crossed with ampullacea (rubra), allure and big red and I used its pollen on the same plants with no variegated plants germinating but some nice looking plants!

Cheers

D