i think it is temperature related. Not sure. U. longifolia I have kept indoors under lights, constant temp have never bloomed. The ones kept outside have been non stop this year. I have a bunch of new spikes forming. But this year temps and weather have been weird.....that U. longifolia spike is nothing short of amazing. What are your growing conditions for it? Do you do anything special to trigger a blossom?
Yup - definitely darker - very beautiful! (You've seen Herr Fleischmann's explanation of this - right?)Maybe cooler nights are affecting these guys as well. The recent blooms seem to be a bit more blue/purple
yes. the increased anthocyanin production when thee are warm days and cool nights make sense. Sort of same reason why people grow strawberries and wine grapes in the locations that they do. These same conditions increase the sugars produced and stored in the fruits.Yup - definitely darker - very beautiful! (You've seen Herr Fleischmann's explanation of this - right?)
How often does your plant bloom? It seems like it was flowering both before & after mine?
Check out the pic of the plant on the guys hand in this thread - very unusual growth habit.the one with my finger is the oldest flowers. None of those are flower stalks. i cant quite compose them in the pot right. It seems like they are putting up multi branched leafy stolons
What are you doing growing a lowlander on a mountain? (Beautiful flowers btw - for some reason, I never noticed the pointy rabbit ears before - go figure).U. fulva
Omigod - hide the kids! Cover the pots!! You're much braver than me ...and give this weed his due he is nice and sunny yellow on a dreary overcast rainy day - U. subulata
I totally love the U. biloba colors - beautiful!!U. biloba Found the dormant buds of the flower stalk will also sprout and produce flowers
Last year I studied a number of threads on blooming U. longifolia. Some very experienced growers could never get it to flower and some noobs had flowering plants. After re-reading the threads, it seemed that the noobs were windowsill growers and the experienced growers w/o blooms were growing under lights w/o a 'natural' photoperiod. To test that hypothesis, I set up a pot on my windowsill (I hadn't previously had a U. longifolia flower) .... and, sure enough, come spring - I had flowers for months - very cool! Just based on this rudimentary experiment, I suspect that seasonal photoperiod change is important to flowering. However, I can't rule out some temperature clues helping the process since the pots were on a windowsill (although one pot under lights with a carefully adjusted photoperiod also flowered). This year, the U. longifolia is just now sending up a flower stalk and the adjacent U. praelonga also appears to be sending up 2 or 3. (Later: as of 3/14, the other longifolia has also sprouted a stalk)that U. longifolia spike is nothing short of amazing. What are your growing conditions for it? Do you do anything special to trigger a blossom?
Last year I studied a number of threads on blooming U. longifolia. Some very experienced growers could never get it to flower and some noobs had flowering plants. After re-reading the threads, it seemed that the noobs were windowsill growers and the experienced growers w/o blooms were growing under lights w/o a 'natural' photoperiod. To test that hypothesis, I set up a pot on my windowsill (I hadn't previously had a U. longifolia flower) .... and, sure enough, come spring - I had flowers for months - very cool! Just based on this rudimentary experiment, I suspect that seasonal photoperiod change is important to flowering. However, I can't rule out some temperature clues helping the process since the pots were on a windowsill (although one pot under lights with a carefully adjusted photoperiod also flowered). This year, the U. longifolia is just now sending up a flower stalk and the adjacent U. praelonga also appears to be sending up 2 or 3.