Reply With QuoteHi illumbomb......just post the update. I'm keen too see how the blossomed bud look like
Hi,
Would like to share a few photographs of my 1st Barclaya Longifolia 'Red' flowering experience:
The large Barclaya plant.
A flower bud.
Will post more photographs of the development if anyone is interested.
Hi illumbomb......just post the update. I'm keen too see how the blossomed bud look like
I am waiting for the flower to bloom
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Still a flower bud after more than a week. Read on the web that usually these flower buds will self-germinate and explode in mid-water without flowering so we shall wait and see...
Oh yah......I'm watching!
Some of my experience with this plant.
I have never seen the bud open. It just shed away after a few weeks. Another thing to note is that after flowering, it usually goes into a dormant state. It will shade the larger leaves and sprout smaller and rounded-tipped leaves. Mine has been in the dormant state for 2-3 months already.
BC
BC,
At least your plant stayed in dormant state. Mine simply died after repeated attempts to flower failed.
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Hi,
Still a flower bud after almost 2 weeks.
overview
close up
a new bud
Hi ya bomby
I was wondering: Did you notice any change (significant or otherwise) after these two weeks?
Hmmm, not much changes other than the fact that the stem is growing taller and some bubbling is occuring from within the sepal.
It has been more than 1 month since I had my first flower bud. There are currently 5 buds now, the first one has started to rot and the second has swelled up (hopefully with seeds inside).
The first 3 buds (1st bottom right, 2nd centre left, 3rd top centre)
The 1st bud's sepel starting to open
The 1st bud's sepel opening
The 1st bud rotting
turns out that the green barclaya won in this flowering competition with a successful bloom within the first or second attempt (lost track). The red barclaya has about 6 buds already but non managed to bloom but one of them is really swollen now.
Is this a submersed green barclaya bloom???
The emerging green barclaya bud...
The successful green barclaya bloom....
The swollen red barclaya bud...
The tip of the flower became burnt, I touched it and it broke off...
The green barclaya used to have more than 15 stalks of leaves before the flowering. After the flowering, it shed almost all its leaves.
As for the red barclaya, there is no successful flowering yet but some of the swollen submersed flower buds have exploded (see below).
white seeds of the exploded flower bud
slimy infill in the flower bud
Hi,
I think the previous photographs might be showing an unripe fruit of a barclaya. Recently, more than a hundred of small brown spiky particles of about 1-2mm diameter (see below) can be found on my gravel. I suspect that these are the real seeds, especially after I found remnants of an exploded fruit with some of these brown spiky particles still attached.
brown spiky particles
remnants of an exploded fruit
Managed to find a just exploded fruit so took a picture of it...
It has been months and from what I observed so far, none of the seeds germinated. Are these seeds "dead" already? Anyone has experience in germinating barclaya seeds? Thanks.
After my barclaya longifolia red produced batches of seeds about 4 months ago, I transferred and kept some of these seeds into a small covered glass bottle from Ikea and placed it at one corner of my balcony (in case I accidentally siphon all the seeds away when I change water). When I checked the bottle recently, I found out that those seeds inside the small bottle have actually germinated. After nearly 4 months of inactivity!!!! I thought they were "dead" already.
Those inside my tank unfortunately have not. I would be transferring some of those seeds in my tank into the bottle to be placed at my balcony to see whether these seeds would still geminate. Would the sunlight be the x-factor?
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