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Steve Pope
Joined: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:37 am Posts: 1401 Location: Sussex coast
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
The frond texture is more delicate than you would expect for a Dicksonia - compared to youngiae or squarrosa it's very soft. Is that what you've noticed too, Ed? I think knowing that blumei comes from Borneo (wow!) makes all the difference - every time I remember that detail it goes up in my estimation!
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Thu May 15, 2014 9:49 pm |
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Eduard O
Joined: Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:46 pm Posts: 1196 Location: Maastricht Netherlands
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
Yes Steve the frond felt very soft, the summer frond grows straight up, and is much stronger, there's another one to see broken by the wind last year in the fall on the last picture, winter leaf is weak here by low temperature, do not have a warm greenhouse, an average of 12 º C. I need to find a good sheltered warm place for this species in my garden. @ Thanks Kev also love it Gr. Eduard.
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Fri May 16, 2014 8:34 am |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Re: Dicksonia berteriana from Chile/Loughborough
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Fri May 16, 2014 2:31 pm |
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Steve Pope
Joined: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:37 am Posts: 1401 Location: Sussex coast
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
Berteriana is slow for us, Kev. More shelter and continual humidity is what it would prefer - but under our conditions there's only so much you can do. Mine crisps very easily in direct sunlight and tends to look disappointingly scruffy compared to your immaculate duo, but it's three times the size simply because it stays under glass all year round. Probably doesn't make much sense for us in the UK, but the rarity just seems to grab me anyway!
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
Thanks for the info Steve mine gets pot planted in my fernery around about now where it has over head irrigation but humid it is not. Seems ok in my greenhouse over winter at just +5c
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Fri May 16, 2014 2:50 pm |
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Chris Callard
Joined: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:10 pm Posts: 171 Location: London, UK
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
That is a beautiful D.blumei, Eduard I have just moved mine to a sheltered spot in the garden and am hoping it will adapt to the outdoor environment - as you and Steve have said, the fronds on this one are much more delicate than the average Dicksonia. Dicksonia berteroana is also outside for the summer - usually copes ok but the fronds can look rather dull by the autumn: Yes, another clumper
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Fri May 16, 2014 8:53 pm |
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Chris Callard
Joined: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:10 pm Posts: 171 Location: London, UK
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
After posting the photos above of D.berteroana, I thought I would look for some old photos of the plant for comparison ...
This was taken in March 2010 when I received the plant from Vale Exotics:
Repotted after arrival and two months later it started showing its clumping tendency:
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Fri May 16, 2014 9:06 pm |
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Eduard O
Joined: Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:46 pm Posts: 1196 Location: Maastricht Netherlands
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
Hi, C. glauca is doing very well, I have kept two plants for my own colection,
All sensitive tree ferns stand on a wind-free and humid place, as C. spinulosa,
C.villardii is working on trunk formation, lovely small crown,
D. blumei new Crosiers grown pretty straight up as Steve pointed [outside]
C.intermedia [or whatever it may be] is doing well, frond is becoming wider and flatter,
Gr. Eduard.
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Fri Aug 15, 2014 3:23 pm |
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Chris Callard
Joined: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:10 pm Posts: 171 Location: London, UK
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
Great to see the progress of your plants, Eduard How sure are you of the ID of the Cyathea glauca? The plant I am growing under this name looks somewhat different ... especially the scales.
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Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:02 pm |
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Steve Pope
Joined: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:37 am Posts: 1401 Location: Sussex coast
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
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Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:09 pm |
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Eduard O
Joined: Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:46 pm Posts: 1196 Location: Maastricht Netherlands
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
Hi Chris, an acquaintance of a palm forum harvested this last year at La Réunion! If I look after your pictures, I fear that Steve is right here we go again [ Thanks Steve ] Gr. Eduard.
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Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:55 pm |
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Steve Pope
Joined: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:37 am Posts: 1401 Location: Sussex coast
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
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Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:07 pm |
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Chris Callard
Joined: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:10 pm Posts: 171 Location: London, UK
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
Sorry Eduard As Steve says, your plants do look typical Sphaeropteris. I have lost count of how many spore lots have turned out wrongly named here ... so frustrating!
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Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:20 pm |
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Steve Pope
Joined: Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:37 am Posts: 1401 Location: Sussex coast
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
Only three native Cyathea species on Reunion - plus the dreaded invasive alien cooperi.
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Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:26 pm |
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Eduard O
Joined: Sun Sep 02, 2012 7:46 pm Posts: 1196 Location: Maastricht Netherlands
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Re: Raising tree ferns from spores
Hi Steve, I just informed him , and asked him this question, what other types cyathea species to find there, Thanks Chris for posting yours photos, otherwise I maybe had more people disappointed with sending the wrong species! Thank you both. Gr. Ed
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