Canna 2012

This is the one Pete kindly gave to me!
Looks like its doing ok for my first attempt



These are a little smaller which are the seeds kindly given to me from bilbo

 

My Canna looks like the bad one above, unfortunately I think it has got Canna virus still.. and so I dug it out and stuck it in the greenhouse... it's still growing however and showing no sign of terminal decline, it just looks hideous.

The one Canna I want to get hold of is Canna brasiliensis, but I find it difficult to source one.

 

the canna will not die , by the virus , will keep growing and even produce flower , but it look unhealty , I got rid off mine , alway better lose one leg then both , no point of risk all the cannas .........I was reading that someone has used aspirin and it seams that the plant has started to look better , if it`s a real canna and you will manage to get seeds out of them , you`ll may start all again and have healthy plants next year.

 

Not growing well at this point Sal, the growth is very slow, I brought them as tubers this year, so it's nowhere near flowering point. I'll definitely try the Aspirin thing though.

 

I bough some tubers as well last year , from a reliable seller and in some how my canna have the virus , as everyone has recommended not to grow from tuber , but just seeds or buy plant who look really healty.......try to cut the infected leaves or aphid will spreed to all the rest of the canna , it worth to try the aspirin , but if it not a rare canna , dasn`t worth all that.

 

Nice collection there!
Mine are coming on slowly but surely!

 

My Cannas are still doing nothing height wise, yet they are sending up suckers as expected, seems strange to see 10" plants that should be several feet tall with 2 and 3 suckers

The one positive I can take is my last remaining Altensteinni rhizome from last year (the others rotted) that had done nothing either produced a shoot about 5 weeks ago whilst lying on damp compost in the greenhouse, I potted it up and its now about a 1ft tall, taller than the other varieties grown from seed in February!!!, its too late for it to get to 10-11ft like last year but hopefully I'll have a healthy plant from it to get through the winter, fingers crossed..

 

Similar story here Bilbo , my seed grown Cannas Marabout and Altensteinii are still just above knee high . The Marabout produced flower buds in early June , these seem to have perished . The Canna Tropicana grown for last years rhizomes are doing well they look healthy and are not a bad height.

 

I think its safe to perform the last rites on them Armandii !
Very quiet Canna thread this year , probably everyones Cannas are sulking a little due to the weather. Hopefully this good spell we are having/had will give them a shot in the arm ! My C. Tropicanas from rhizomes are looking 100% at the moment and good healthy flower buds are forming I won't mention the others !

 

only the strong will survive , after all the bad weather in the last week something start to move , few update .
musagrande _ almost blend with the red banana

bronze canna about to flower

edilus ....will be the next to go in rubbish as I`m suspected is infested...what a shame the only one who stand at 5 feet

small musa from seed

between the durban , canna australis in flower at 2 feet high (strange)

altensii from seeds
the nice leaves of the Thai canna

overall lost many this year but still happy .

 

"red" Canna, from Ebay seed this year has just come into flower:

.. theres about 8 or 9 more that should get to flower this year. They were supposed to top out the tropical border outside my house, but the only thing that has done well is the Datura la fleur lilac:

... which has grown bigger than the Cannas & the purple castor oil plant, which has really stuggled (both those from this years seed too).

Hopefully if we get a bit more sun I will get a few more flowers yet.