To Champion...

Sinningia 'Prudence Risley' - Where are you?

To Champion…

            Synonyms:  advocate, promote, defend, uphold, support, back, stand up for, crusade for…

            “To Champion” a particular plant takes a lot.

Sinningia 'An's Nyx' - Where are you?

I've changed my mind

Sinningia 'An's Nyx' with potential

Story # 109,


I’ve changed my mind


“It will be lucky to be a collector’s plant” ----- November 16, 2012

“It will not be a commercial plant “----- June 18, 2013

“It should be produced commercially and see what happens”----- NOW

        Sinningia ‘An’s Nyx’ has very striking yellow/cream flowers which hang down, but they are held out far enough for all to see.   We always knew that---- it was the initial attraction.  The problem was the plant appeared weak and there were not enough flowers at once.


      My one plant appears to have overcome these faults.  The second flowering from stronger growth off the tuber has produced several flowers at once with buds waiting.  Multiple flowers can be achieved with multiple shoots from either pinching or planting 2-3 plants per pot.


      The double calyx novelty (flower petals form where the calyx normally grows) ensures that the flowers will not fall off.  Of course, this means that flowers gone past will have to be cut off --- you can’t have it both ways.


      Commercial plants only survive if they are pretty.  Collector plants survive if they are interesting.


      Sinningia ‘An’s Nyx’ could be both.

It's better this time around

Sinningia 'An's Nyx' - Second flowering

 Story # 107,


It’s better this time around.


      Sinningia ‘An’s Nyx’ is very interesting in that it’s the first yellow double calyx flower that I’ve seen.


      I was happy to get to see it by paying a lot of money in the Gesneriad auction last year.  It did not perform well in the first flowering after surviving a shaky start.


      This second flowering is stronger with several buds showing.  The flowers are nice ---- Yellow is always a good color to have.


        It will not be a commercial plant but every Sinningia lover will want to have one.



So what's it really like?

Sinningia 'An's Nyx' grown by Gary's Specialty Plants

Story # 72,


      This picture is the first flowering of Sinningia ‘An’s Nyx’ that was described in Story # 70.


      So what’s it really like?


      It is not as Yellow as I hoped that it would be.  More cream.


      It only has four possible flowers at first showing.


      It‘s unlikely to be a commercial plant.


     It will be lucky to be collector’s plant unless it produces better when more vigorous cuttings can be tested.  I’m glad that I get to see it first hand.

Sinningia 'An's Nyx'

Sinningia 'An's Nyx'

Story # 70,

      Sinningia ‘An’s Nyx’ was one of the choice plants that I bought at the Gesneriad Society convention in Seattle in July.  Well my agent, Mary Schaeffer, was doing the bidding for me and was able to win the lot of Sinningias from Taiwan.

      We were unsure of what actual varieties were in the collection, but one was S. ‘An’s Nyx’.  This was a very lucky set of events since I had seen a picture of it on www.Piratesplayground.blogspot.com, a great source to see what’s going on with Sinningias in Taiwan.

      When Mary brought the plants back from the convention and got them to me, ‘An’s Nyx’ was a bare two little threads of a plant ------Will it survive?

      Of course it’s yes or there would be no need to tell the story.

      My interest in the plant is that it may be the first Yellow double calyx Sinningia in the world and the first clone of it in the United States.

      It remains to be seen if its other characteristics will be good enough, beyond Yellow?