Pirate's Playground: 2013

2013年12月30日

New Year Greetings 2014

新年快樂
สวัสดีปีใหม่
Happy New Year

Feliz Año Nuevo

2013年12月26日

My Gesneriad garden view in winter

Just cold and it keeps raining recently, the foliage looks happy because the high humidity. I'm also happy with less blooms at the moment due to no need to worry about the rot disease caused by withered flowers which are easily affected by fungus in the cold and humid days. Such rot disease can easily destroy a plant within few days.

2013年12月22日

Smithiantha Cross Chart I

Just got few blooming seedlings from the same cross for comparison, the color representation has varied a lot after color gene recombination of the parent plants.

2013年12月15日

My Kohleria season

Variegated Kohleria is adorable for the eye-catching plant before their flowers show up. I was spoiled by growing variegated Kohleria over years because I start to get bored with the green leaf ones as the only expectation is the flower and it takes several months to wait.

2013年12月12日

Two Bombs

Not sure how much explosion will be chain-reacted !?
But their flower shape is nearly perfect for me in terms of calyx double Sinningia. Huge and Fatness !
พยายาม เข้านะ !

seedling grown by HTLiao

seedling grown by Stone

2013年12月9日

xSmithicodonia Heartland's Joy

I show my xSmithicodonia Heartland's Joy today , this is an inter-genera hybrid of Ms. Dale Martens. Almost an year ago, I exchanged plants with friend and I got this one by return. It could be stronger as long as enough fertilizer had been fed during the growth, but I did not due to the worry of over-fertilizer in stuffy summer. The flower color is striking.

2013年12月4日

Eucodonia Adele

A lovely Eucodonia that has bigger flower when comparing to other Eucodonias. It is always a good plant in the garden and it grows well without special treatment or extra care. I used it as pollen parent to cross with others this year, hopefully to get the seeds successfully.

2013年12月2日

Smithiantha December

The Smithiantha seedlings bloom from now on, all these are my own crosses which were made 3 years ago. The coming days keeps cool with sunshine, it's absolutely comfortable for people and Smithiantha.

2013年11月25日

Autumn Gesneriads Reunion , Taipei , 2013

Local Gesneriads lovers had a small gathering on last Sunday in Taipei, there were plant shows and sales from 10AM to 16PM, plus a speech about growing Gesneriads. The air conditioner didn't help at all in the peak hours because the classroom was full of people and that made me sweat ... due to hot and a bit stuffy.

I could only took some photos quickly in the noon when there were less crowd. The main show plants included African Violet and Sinningia which were accompanied by other interesting Gesneriad plants. People came here to see and buy their Gesneriads as well as exchanged plants or growing tips. A successful reunion as usual !