touchofsky said:I have Precious de Oro, Ken, and my plant has a much shorter scape and the bloom is much creamier, not as yellow. I will be curious to see what yours looks like when it is settled in the ground.
Me too! I THINK the extra scape height was from it being on the bottom of a clearance rack for a while and stretching to get some sun. When I say it was crowded in its pot, I mean CROWDED. As in, almost zero soil and full of roots. I ended up breaking it in thirds to re-pot it...and that required a root saw when my garden knife proved too gentle.
It's one I am curious about. I've read much on here about tissue culturing, and how the scapes are often much taller, but I can't imagine someone TCing Precious de Oro. I mean, it's not new and it's not very remarkable from what I can tell. That said, it is Dutch and I've read that some growers in the Netherlands do TC quite a bit.
If I give it the clay corner treatment, it will be dry (on an incline, under a dogwood, bordered by a driveway and a sidewalk). Can it take drought-like conditions?
