Viewing post #11019 by twitcher

Well, nearly all of my heuffelii are blooming this year, include the ones that came in various trades in the past two months. They all appear to be blooming at about the same time as well. I'm at a bit of a loss to understand, as none of my heuffelii bloomed last year and I thought blooming was relatively rare for them. This year, nearly every single rosette starts from trades are blooming as well as established clusters from previous years. I have not had enough experience with flowering heuffelii to know if a single rosette plant that flowers will survive to grow other rosettes. Anybody know what happens when a single-rosette plant flowers? I'm keeping my fingers crossed. The other thing I've noticed is that they do not seem to be growing as fast as they normally do.

I think it might be the very unusual weather we've had. It's only mid-july, but it seems like summer has been here forever. I'm not complaining, as I like the hot summer weather, but its unusual to have it so early.

But on the plus side, I should have lots of hybrid heuffelii seed to play with this winter. I noticed the bees out making their way among the heuffelii flowers.

Flower photo added by valleylynn. h Red heuffelii Munich univ