I think that clearly it likes both of the environments, and especially that of the season before as that is when the hefty bulb was produced. But, I look at the fasciation anomaly as putting the plant into a kind of overdrive. It's hard to know what fraction of the vigor is due to that.

G'day Josh, bad luck with one of your selected breeding aurelians coming up fasciated. It looks as though it is a pretty strong clone.

Look out for ''the Lady with the crooked stigma,'' as she produced many plants last year, when combined with Tallboy that had 42 + blooms on their first flowering.I would like to say they were 2 metres tall, but alas, only 6 feet tall Hopefully this year they may have 60 plus blooms.

''The Lady with the crooked stigma''.

Thanks Paul. I'll keep an eye out for that one.

Looks like the seeds in this Carte Blanche pod got too big for their britches...


And another split on the other side of the pod:


I harvested the pod sooner rather than later because it is raining here. Usually I wait for the natural seams to split.

Mine did that too Connie!

Carte Blanche loves to make her seed pods!

I don't think I got seeds from Carte Blanche until all the Griesbach stuff came to my yard!

Griesbach's are some very fertile stuff. This was a very bad year to promise not to make so much seed. Complete failure. Maybe next year...

pardalinum said:Looks like the seeds in this Carte Blanche pod got too big for their britches..


I harvested the pod sooner rather than later because it is raining here. Usually I wait for the natural seams to split.

Carte Blanche or not, this scenario usually spells trouble. I've found it's most likely to happen late in the Fall season when the pod shell is hardening up and all of a sudden the weather changes from dry to 'wet and rainy'. The core inside the pod starts to 're-grow' and as it expands, it bursts the seams and exposes the immature seeds. Here's the catch 22: If you leave the pod on the stem thinking it will dry naturally with all those open cracks, it won't. It will mold completely. You can cut the stem and put the scape in a nice place to dry. That it will, but crux of the matter is the seeds dry up stuck together, stacked together like poker chips--as many as 5 or 10 at a time. Separation is not an option. On the plus side, these columns of stacked seeds can be planted and the seeds usually germinate normally but crowded.

Poker chips is an appropriate description....

Last year it was the late season chipmunk and this year it's this little guy or gal that has been following me around these last few blustery and rainy days of Fall. He better get under the porch and dig in for the winter. Does anyone know what kind of frog this is? It's pretty big--too big for a tree frog.

Don't know but he sure is cute

Looks like a bullfrog to me. I don't see them often here.

A funny looking 4n trumpet pod with a growth coming out of the top of the pod.


Slightly different angle.

pardalinum said:A funny looking 4n trumpet pod with a growth coming out of the top of the pod.


Slightly different angle.

This seems to be a little bulblet coming out of the pod. It hasn't put out a leaf though. Any thoughts? Has anyone seen something like this?

Could it have gotten the tiniest bit of overspray of some kind of pesticide/herbicide?

interesting, though. Is it going to be a clone of the mother plant, or a sexually produced seed gone awry?

No pesticides/herbicides... I guess I will learn when it comes time to harvest the pod. I don't want to dink with it too much now lest I do damage to a pod that is not ripe yet. I guess it could just be a fleshy abnormality. If it turns out that it looks like something that will grow, I will plant it and see what happens.

By the way, it is a Griesbach tet seedling from the seed exchange.

I haven't had anything like that happen, at least that I can recall. It will be interesting to see if it is an anomaly or a weird clone growth of sorts. You'll have to keep us posted.

We can't rule out climate change and the weirdly different weather it is. It got me thinking, and you know, I have had more fasciations in my lilies this year than I had in the last fifteen years.