i must be doing something right ....(at last)

If they are plantlets, anyone who wants some are welcome!!. ive peeled a few off and set them in compost but as yet no signs of roots !!!!!. it is an absolute beauty of a plant....lovely before spike,,,ugly and half dead looking with spike but the spike is awesome!!!!!....post me some addresses and ill try and sen you all some???plantlets????seed pods????what ever they are???. Keep digging people see if we can find out what they are.....more pics posting soon!!

 

yes, please!!!! address on its way to you....

 

Yes please Steve. I'll PM you my address. Thanks

 

Hi all,
Just been looking at the Hardy Exotics site (www.hardyexotics.co.uk) and it says that Furcraea longaevas flowers are followed by bulbils (!) So I'm presuming that's what they are. Doesn't tell you what to do with them though!

 

Windy bulbils or bulblets are treated in the same way as bulbs and just planted in a pot of compost the only thing is they take a lot longer to mature

 

windy you can play with my bulbils any time you like sweetheart !!!!!

 

this is a picture of F - Bedinghausii..... this is most definately not what i have got.......looks nothing like it !!!!

 

This garden center down the road from windy miller has a good picture that looks like what i have........but as the 2nd pic shows the spike is nothing like (and a good 3 mts shorter than mine!!!!

 

anyone else want some (i think they are) bulbils to try and grow a monster of your own?

 

looking forward to monster creation..... :D Don't care if it takes ages!!

 

planting to spike didn't take long. it started to spike at the beginning of its 4th summer....
Planted bulbil may 2003.....started spiking april 2006 !!!!

 

I feel a Monster growing competition coming on :D :D

 

Think you're right Windy!! :rolleyes:

 

Hi friends,
All requested bulbils are in the post. Let the monster growing begin. These monsters will take over the british isles (with a little over wintering)!!!!
Windy you like biscuits i see???
Inside me there is a fat man screaming to get out.... but despite all the beer and every food under the sun the thin chap wins hands down !!!

 

:D :D Haagen Daas and Stella are my poisons! But not always together!!
Found a pick of flowers that look like the monsters. Dunno. Have a look and see what you think.
www.tresco.co.uk/the_abbey_garden/Articles/article_furcrea.asp