Flask update – one year after deflasking, everybody is still alive. All 21 are growing although pretty slow, but that’s expected. I see the difference in root tip color on some.
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Neofinetia falcata Miyakohabutae 都羽二重
Purchased from Flora Peculia, it arrived yesterday. It is a one growth plant but very colorful. each leaf has strong variegation, random and different. Very curious how the next growth will look like…
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Neofinetia falcata ‘Manjushage’ x ‘Shutennou’ 曼珠沙華 x 朱天王
Purchased flask from Ten Shin Gardens in December 2020. Deflasked on January 16, 2021 because noticed too many brown leaves and roots in the flask. There are 21 seedling in 4 pots. Now, do any of them have wavy tsuke? Maybe one of these: Those are the plants with the most “wavy” tsukes I could […]
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Neofinetia falcata ‘Senzai’ 千載
Purchased from Flora Peculia in September 2018, one of my first neofinetia purchases. Miniature bean leaf type, slow growing for me. Senzai means “A thousand years”, that’s probably how long it will take to grow it into the specimen that can bloom. This variety is believed to be hard to bloom and needs many growths […]
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Neofinetia falcata ‘Kyokushou’ 旭昇
My newest neofinetia, only got it in December 2020, purchased from Flora Peculia. Tiger stripes appear on the new leaves, and then as the leaf matures stripes stay. Plant requires bright light to produce the stripes, so if the light is too low when the new leaf is starting – stripes might not appear at […]
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Neofinetia falcata ‘Benimusou’ 紅無双
Purchased from Flora Peculia in September 2020. Miniature bean type variety with thick, wide and short leaves, I think it looks very cute and unusual for neofinetia. It is said that this variety was selected from the cross of Benikujaku and Yodonomatsu along with another variety called Oomusou, the difference between them is that Benimusou […]
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Neofinetia falcata ‘Ōyashima’ 大八洲
Purchased from Flora Peculia in July 2019. It has Tsume-fukurin 爪覆輪 variegation which is not very common. It is a type of marginal variegation that is only limited to the distal half of the leaf. Plant doesn’t clump much, since arrival with one mature growth and one baby fan it only started to produce one more […]
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Neofinetia falcata ‘Keiga’ 慶賀
Purchased from Flora Peculia at Montreal OrchidExpo in March 2019. It came with one main variegated growth and two small solid green ones. Since then it produced 4 more solid green fans and finally during theyear 2020 growing season it created two variegated fans. Keiga is a very dynamic variety where variegation changes from growth […]
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Neofinetia falcata ‘Kinginrasha’ 金銀羅紗
Purchased from Flora Peculia in September2020. This variety has rough texture on the leaf surface. The flowers supposed to be curled and look up. Also flowers should start white and then mature to yellow. My plant has one mature growth and one baby fan, not sure if it is ready to bloom yet…
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Neofinetia falcata ‘Kutsuwamushi’ 轡虫
Purchased from Flora Peculia at Montreal OrchidExpo in March 2019. This variety has unusual leaf tips and flower spurs are curled and turned up. In the first year I had it my plant grew a lot of new fans and last spring I divided it to give away some divisions. As a result it skipped […]
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