New Anthurium thread

[Tracy]

Just acquired this possible hybrid Anthurium from a friend.  He has a couple of these in the ground here in Encinitas, so I intend to try planting this one in my garden too.

[metalfan]

Maybe a pedatum hybrid?

[realarch]

Just posting a photo of this A. marmoratum ( thanks Gina for the ID), it’s looking great this season. Normally it looks a bit tattered because of the large soft leaves and even the slightest poke or gust of wind creates a tear.

Tim  

[Tracy]

Spring has arrived and I'm seeing some new growth on this still unidentified Anthurium species.

[Tracy]

New young leaf on an Anthurium sp. cirinoi.

[piping plovers]

On 3/29/2024 at 12:34 PM, Tracy said:

Anthurium sp. cirinoi.

I really like these.  Would be nice to be able to grow these outdoors as you are to accommodate those Huge leaves.

[piping plovers]

After a few years growing this A. Wendlingeri, I’m getting close to witnessing the curious ‘pig-tailed’ spiraled spadix.  I’ll update with another photo when it fully unfurls.  
 

They were difficult and expensive to obtain a few years ago.  I was happy to get this from ecuagenera.  They usually have reasonable prices but  it was pricey for them.  Maybe they are more readily available these days.

 

 

[metalfan]

I got one from them when they were on sale. Mine is just about mature enough to bloom, I just repotted it. We can compare blooms at some point!

I have a huge number of 2 year seedlings I hybridized. They are all growing really well. I had to make some shelves in the GH for them all, to get the up off the ground. I've never had shelves or benches before...I don't really like the look. But they are working pretty good so I will put up with it.  I just repotted everything, I'm still working on some spring repots.

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[piping plovers]

1 hour ago, metalfan said:

 

I got one from them when they were on sale. Mine is just about mature enough to bloom, I just repotted it. We can compare blooms at some point!

 

Yes, we will have to do that!  Right before ecuagenera made theirs available I bought one from a CA grower (who also has a ghs in Costa Rica?).  Anyhow, he crossed parents known to produce very long leaves and sold the seedlings.  I’ll be curious to see how that wendlingeri seedling compares with the ecuagenera one when they both mature.

Such a nice display of patterns and forms on your creations. Looking like a lush, tropical living wall in your greenhouse!

[metalfan]

Thanks! Do you have Anthurium sp. Limon? I picked one up in a trade 3-4 years ago. Ecuagenera had them for sale for a very brief period and I have never seen them there again. The person I got mine from got it at the IAS show in Miami.

It's a climber, I think mine is nearing maturity. When it gets mature enough it splits into a trilobe form

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[piping plovers]

2 hours ago, metalfan said:

Do you have Anthurium sp. Limon? I picked one up in a trade 3-4 years ago. Ecuagenera had them for sale for a very brief period and I have never seen them there again. The person I got mine from got it at the IAS show in Miami.

I’ve never seen those before. The trilobe form sounds like it is worth waiting for. I’ll keep an eye out for one. Thanks.

 

 

[piping plovers]

It’s always the top of the leaf (lobes?) that brown/crisp first with my warocqueanums, and sometimes veitchii.  60% humidity, range between 60-75 degrees F, in ventilated glass cabinet.

Anyone else experience this? Wondering if they get rid of excess salts that way.

Otherwise, healthy looking intact leaves, each one generally larger than the last leaf.  This one is about to flower and produce its largest leaf yet; so, I’m thinking the conditions should be fine.  Not sure what the missing cultural elements are.

 

[metalfan]

Since I don;t grow in a cabinet, I can't really say...but my suspicion is, its too close to the grow light

[piping plovers]

1 hour ago, metalfan said:

but my suspicion is, its too close to the grow light

Aaah.  Thank you.  That may be it.  I was so focused on the humidity with these that I wasn’t even thinking of excessive lighting damage.

[metalfan]

Your leaves look a little dusky too, did you check for pests like spider mites?

[metalfan]

This baby is going off the script. I think it's A. furcatum, but the tag was lost. It just keeps getting bigger, and bigger, and bigger

[metalfan]

Couple plants I am waiting to get big. Both these are pushing 4 years old. 

Anthurium cupulispathum, and Anthurium longistrorsum

Anthurium queremalense has finally settled down after more than a year and decided to grow in my conditions.

[metalfan]

Purchased 3-4 years ago as seedlings from Ecuagenera. First one of supposed to be Anthurium lentii, second one is Anthurium lancea cf. The lentii is not true to type. The cf is probably an as yet undescribed species.Both grew into very handsome plants

[metalfan]

Hybrid I made and grew from seed. Papillilaminum x besseae AFF

[piping plovers]

On 4/27/2024 at 1:45 PM, metalfan said:

Hybrid I made and grew from seed. Papillilaminum x besseae AFF

These are just as nice or even better than the ones I’ve been seeing on ecuagenera. Seems they have been offering more hybrids now than they did a few years ago.

[piping plovers]

On 4/2/2024 at 3:02 PM, piping plovers said:

After a few years growing this A. Wendlingeri, I’m getting close to witnessing the curious ‘pig-tailed’ spiraled spadix.  I’ll update with another photo when it fully unfurls.

This is all I’m going to get now from this seedling, first bloom.

My warocqueanum is blooming now and my other wendlingeri soon.  Wondering if anyone has had success crossing these two.

 

 

[metalfan]

That bloom is as cute as a button.

[metalfan]

Anthurium besseae AFF has woken up from winter sluggishness with a vengeance

[metalfan]

My Anthurium villenaorum and some children I grew from its seeds. If I get a chance this season and pollen sheds and fertile plants are copacetic, I want to try crossing Billie with something real dark. Like papillilaminum, Ace of Spades or Besseae AFF

It might also be interesting to try it with one of my really high silver blister variegation Besseae x magnificums.

[metalfan]

Another of my own hybrids. Papillilaminum x magnificum 'Baphomet'.

[realarch]

That’s a beauty Gina, nice contrast on the leaf.

Tim

[metalfan]

4 hours ago, realarch said:

That’s a beauty Gina, nice contrast on the leaf.

Tim

Thanks! I’ve been giving my hybrids ‘pet’ names as identifiers so if I cross them with something else I’ll know the exact plant I used

[Dartolution]

Just curious if anyone has crossed their queens?
I have a "Esmeralda" warocqueanum that I crossed with a "standard" or dark queen. 

Seed was sown 5 days ago. starting to see some green. 

 

Warocqueanum "esmeralda"

 

 

[piping plovers]

24 minutes ago, Dartolution said:

Just curious if anyone has crossed their queens?
I have a "Esmeralda" warocqueanum that I crossed with a "standard" or dark queen. 

Good question.  I bet MetalFan will know.  I’ve been wondering if the queen warocqueanum can be crossed with another velvet type—the A. wendlingeri.  Have not seen any crosses online and wonder if they are too different to cross.

nicely grown plants there! And good luck on the crosses!

 

[metalfan]

I crossed my Queen with an unknown LOL as in something (maybe a tree frog) did it for me. I got seeds, about 200 seeds. But NONE of them sprouted they were seemingly infertile

[Tracy]

New leaflets opening.  These come out looking like a small twisted mess and just keep unraveliing into something much larger than initial impressions indicate.

[piping plovers]

At ecuagenera last week and I found this to be the most interesting anthurium cross villenaorum x reflexinervium:

 

and I also like this species that is new to me:

 

Didn’t catch the name on this. Such interesting wavy extensions on the petioles:

 

 

[metalfan]

Wow reflexinervium and villenanorum will cross? I have those. I have 2 extremely old reflexinerviums and more than one villie. If the opportunity presents I may have to try this.

My hybrid Cupulispathum x pedatum that I call 'Frilled Lizard' bloomed and had a LOT of pollen yesterday. The only thing I had receptive was a big Mehani (magnificum x {radicans x luxurians}) x crystallinum. I pollinated the Mehani with the Frilled Lizard. I'm not optimistic it will take....but who knows? Seeing reflex and villie, a pachyneurium and a cardiolonchium, cross, makes me optimistic

[piping plovers]

9 hours ago, metalfan said:

My hybrid Cupulispathum x pedatum that I call 'Frilled Lizard' bloomed and had a LOT of pollen yesterday. The

That is so cool, i just noticed the lobes—-as if the size wasn’t impressive enough!

my reflexinervium has always struggled; I read that it is a lithophyte so i put it in mostly leca medium for rapid drainage. Maybe that environment means torrential rains running down cliff faces; still trying to figure out what it likes.

If you get out to apopka again you might find their new display house interesting.  A lot more room in the greenhouses to squeeze by the benches.  
 

Seems they have really been showcasing their anthurium hybrids.  They have a whole wall with benches with these hybrids prominently displayed and labeled.  I think your creations are just as marketable or even more attractive than what they displayed.

 

[metalfan]

We go every once in a while. It's 2 hours down and 2 hours back. So it's kind of an all day commitment. Not too far but definitely not too close. We went to the nursery like 2 weeks after they opened. It was SPARSE to be sure. They have really committed to making it a great place. Expanding the greenhouses, renovating everything....

I bought my reflexinerviums from them back in the early 2000's from Ecuador. They were still 'rare' then. I had a friend who lived up north (Chicago) and we would get together and make an order and they would bring it with them when they came to the big Orchid show there. She would acclimate the plants then ship mine to me.

I had one bloom and set seeds, and grew a few from seed, so I have more than one. I pot mine in a mix of scant amount of potting soil (just enough to give some organic matter), crushed lava rock, Aliflor and pumice. They are very happy

[piping plovers]

1 hour ago, metalfan said:

I had one bloom and set seeds, and grew a few from seed, so I have more than one. I pot mine in a mix of scant amount of potting soil (just enough to give some organic matter), crushed lava rock, Aliflor and pumice. They are very happy

They look great. Just realized how similar their ribbing looks to the vietchii’s.

[metalfan]

One of my big old Faustomirandae's, a clavigerum and a large Mehani with friends

[realarch]

Well Gina, that’s certainly a Kodak moment! I am totally amazed by all the varieties and crosses that come out of that greenhouse. While my modest collection skirts the periphery of this genus, your passion is contagious and appreciated. Now, how’s that for some sweet syrup?

Tim

[piping plovers]

Almost a year later and I think the 2 queens have really responded positively to the glass cabinet.  I never would have gotten the leaves this long, otherwise.  And they are holding onto leaves longer.  Yes, kinda a pain to water them.
 

I remove them once a month and add epsom salt and water to flush the soil.  Not sure anthuriums appreciate this but I do it for my orchids and am experimenting with the anthuriums.

 

[metalfan]

These new pedatoradiatum eaves somehow always remind me of aliens