a few amp's hybrid

[wijaya]

N. amp x eustachya:


N. amp x reinwardtiana:


N. amp x vent:


N. bical x amp:


N. raff x amp:


Ed

[obregon562]

sweet! love the bical x amps lid.

[wijaya]

Thanks, do hope the fangs are more showy.

Ed

[obregon562]

that would definently be nice. But the lid is still very cool.

[audia4]

Can't stop living the amps and thierr hybrids

[obregon562]

has someone already made an N. ampullaria x veitchii, or vice versa? That would be interesting eh?

[rainforest]

One of the factors why there isn't many amp hybrids is simply the fact that they do not flower regularly/often enough.
Perhaps flower spikes are flowering atop twenty foot canes of vines up in the trees above.
M

[obregon562]

M,

True, i often forget about the massive dimensions some of these LLs need to flower. Still, i think N. ampullaria x veitchii, truncata, or maybe carunculata or soemthing along those lines would be something interesting.

[Dave Evans]

Aug 17, 2009 12:01:45 GMT -10 rainforest said:

One of the factors why there isn't many amp hybrids is simply the fact that they do not flower regularly/often enough.
Perhaps flower spikes are flowering atop twenty foot canes of vines up in the trees above.
M

Dear Forum,

I have found that N. ampullaria will flower only after it has reached 4 feet or 1.3 meters tall. While larger than most other species need to be, I don't think this size is prohibitively difficult to manage in cultivation.

[rainforest]

I have many ampullarias well over the ten foot height, none of them shows any inclination to flower. Oddly I do have some that have flowered in less than a foot in height, but these have been plants made from cuttings.
There is much mystery of why these take for ever to flower. I have only flowered three ampullarias in all my growing. One plant that grew into a thirty foot tall mango tree that was only discovered when the vine bent from a wind storm and I pulled that vine from under the tree. I noticed that it flowered (male of course) at about the twenty foot length. The other two were flowered after receiving some sort of damage to them. Perhaps a ;ast effort to bloom before the vine was lost to damage.
M

[rsivertsen]

I've known N. ventricosa "porcelain form" to grow over 12 feet in length, over a course of ten years or more and never flowered either, although the smaller forms flowered profusely every spring, at a small fraction of the size, often within 16 to 24 inches of stem growth. - Rich