I think Epis are one of the most beautiful, exotic and showy flowers on
the planet. Some varieties also have a delightful aroma too.
Too bad they only last for a day or two..........Sigh
Bob Williams

On Fri, 01 May 2009 18:02:14 -0700, Bob Williams
wrote:

I think Epis are one of the most beautiful, exotic and showy flowers on
the planet. Some varieties also have a delightful aroma too.
Too bad they only last for a day or two..........Sigh
Bob Williams
They are magnificent flowers. Nice photo too.

Yours are ahead of mine Bob or maybe your plant is an early bloomer?
I repotted a lot of mine last year so not sure what kind of bloom production
I will get. Have heard they like to be rootbound?
Looking forward to more pics.
Cheers Wendy
"Bob Williams" wrote in message
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I think Epis are one of the most beautiful, exotic and showy flowers on
the planet. Some varieties also have a delightful aroma too.
Too bad they only last for a day or two..........Sigh
Bob Williams

I don't know why, but they DO like to be REALLY crowded.
A few years ago I bought some cuttings at the San Diego Epiphyllum Show.
I planted most of them in individual, marked pots.
They didn't do so well.
The others I just stuck in a big pot with some mature plants. They did
much better......Go figure.
Bob


Wendy7 wrote:
Yours are ahead of mine Bob or maybe your plant is an early bloomer?
I repotted a lot of mine last year so not sure what kind of bloom
production
I will get. Have heard they like to be rootbound?
Looking forward to more pics.
Cheers Wendy
"Bob Williams" wrote in message
...
I think Epis are one of the most beautiful, exotic and showy flowers on
the planet. Some varieties also have a delightful aroma too.
Too bad they only last for a day or two..........Sigh
Bob Williams

"Bob Williams" wrote...
: The others I just stuck in a big pot with some mature plants.
: They did much better......Go figure.

Some plants benefit other plants. In addition, some plants require
bacterial support in order to reproduce, flower or even grow at all.

We all seem to know that beans create some sort of bacteria that
benefits the leaf growing nature of many other plants.

It was shown prior to 1975 that Arabidopsis thaliana gets corrected
of a thiamine deficiency by bacteria that supports the missing thi-
amine.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/j...57565/abstract

There's a PDF link there to the full text of the article. I found
a reference to it in a book copyrighted 1975, Companion Planting
for Successful Gardening, under a section titled DNA.

--
Jim Carlock

Jim Carlock wrote:
"Bob Williams" wrote...
: The others I just stuck in a big pot with some mature plants.
: They did much better......Go figure.

Some plants benefit other plants. In addition, some plants require
bacterial support in order to reproduce, flower or even grow at all.

We all seem to know that beans create some sort of bacteria that
benefits the leaf growing nature of many other plants.

Verrrrry Interesting!
That is probably what is happening with Epis.
Thanks for the tip.
Bob

It was shown prior to 1975 that Arabidopsis thaliana gets corrected
of a thiamine deficiency by bacteria that supports the missing thi-
amine.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/j...57565/abstract

There's a PDF link there to the full text of the article. I found
a reference to it in a book copyrighted 1975, Companion Planting
for Successful Gardening, under a section titled DNA.

joevan wrote:
On Fri, 01 May 2009 18:02:14 -0700, Bob Williams
wrote:

I think Epis are one of the most beautiful, exotic and showy flowers on
the planet. Some varieties also have a delightful aroma too.
Too bad they only last for a day or two..........Sigh
Bob Williams
They are magnificent flowers. Nice photo too.

Thanks Joevan....
They are my all-time favorite flower.
Just wish the lasted longer.
Bob