Sinningia 'Kristobel' ---- First ever!

Sinningia 'Kristobel'  -- first flowers, July 2012

Story # 36,


      Sinningia ‘Kristobel’  ---- First ever availability!

      I have a group of Sinningia ‘Kristobel’ that are ready to sell.  These plants that I’ve watched with great anticipation are a glowing neon rose.


      It has been worth the wait.  I think that this Sinningia variety will find acceptance in the market.


      They will be available soon at Longwood Gardens.  Watch for them there.

First Flower ---- Sinningia 'Kristobel'

Sinningia 'Kristobel' ---- First Flower ---- 25 Jun 2012

Story # 31, Part IV

     These flowers are a glowing neon rose color!

What's it doing now?

Sinningia 'Kristobel' -- 22 May 2012

Sinningia 'Kristobel' -- 10 May 2012

Story # 31, Part III

What would happen in 3 days?

Sinningia 'Kristobel' - 11 June 2012



Sinningia 'Kristobel' - 14 Jun 2012




















Story # 31, Part II

     What happens in 3 days?

     Plants grow while you aren't watching them!



Anticipation!

Sinningia 'Kristobel' with first buds!



Story # 31,


      Anticipation!

      There is excitement when you see a plant flower for the first time.  Hybridizing plants is the ultimate game of anticipating that first flower because it is truly unknown what it will look like.


      The case of Sinningia ‘Kristobel’ is half way there.  Although not common, a few people have seen it flower and we have a picture of a well grown plant.  The anticipation here is seeing how plantlets grown from tissue culture will turn out.  So far they are budding on short young plants.  If the bud count continues to build as it grows, it is going to be a spectacular plant.


      You can anticipate that I will show the progress of S. ‘Kristobel’.


      Check in occasionally.

Sinningia 'Kristobel' ----- Just because...

Sinningia 'Kristobel' grown by Ruth Coulson-- Australia

     

Story # 20,

            Sinningia ‘Kristobel’ ------ Just because it’s from the other side of the world doesn’t mean it’s any good.

            There is an impression that if a product is imported from afar it must be better, why else go to the trouble.  Sinningia ‘Kristobel’ was hybridized by John Nedwich in Australia and found its way to the U.S. in the hobby world.

            The picture is of the plant grown by Ruth Coulson, an advanced hobbyist and also a hybridizer of Sinningias.  I was fortunate to meet Ruth when she came half way around the world to the Gesneriad convention in Philadelphia in July 2011.  I offered to take her to Longwood Gardens as part of her site-seeing and had the chance to talk Gesneriads with her.  Somewhere in there we talked about this ‘Kristobel’ which she had grown so well for a show at home.

            It evolved that I got my original tuber of ‘Kristobel’ from Dale Martens who was growing it from plant material supplied by Ruth previously.

            Based on a picture and Ruth’s recommendation, I shipped it to be produced by tissue culture without actually seeing the plant myself.  Once we have quantities of this mid-sized Sinningia with terminal clusters of rosy flowers, will this gamble pay off?

            I should have S. ‘Kristobel’ in flower for sale in 8 – 12 weeks.