View Full Version : Malmgren Hybrids
tornadomark January 18th, 2009, 03:51 PM After many months of effort, I have successfully imported (legally!!!) good quantities of rare and choice Cypripedium hybrids from Svante Malmgren. While these hybrids are relatively easy to acquire in the EU, they are very tough to acquire in the states! They are Cyp. Calceolus x Macranthum Alba, Cyp. Parviflorum x Rebunense, & Cyp. hotei x tibeticum. They are all three years out of flask and should bloom in 2010!
I am particularly excited about the tibeticum and rebunense hybrids.
They are planted in outdoor beds in a mixture of sand, turface, & perlite...protected under 12 inches (30 cm) of snow. This week our temperatures dropped to 15 degrees below zero F with wind chills to -35 F!!!!
Mark
Paul B January 18th, 2009, 03:54 PM Congrats! cant wait to see them bloom!!
orchidlover January 18th, 2009, 06:26 PM New plants how exciting!:hyper:
Paphy57 January 18th, 2009, 09:39 PM Nice! The hotei x tibeticum sounds like an interesting one!
It sure was freezing here, and I am glad that it isn't that cold now!
Tom Velardi January 19th, 2009, 12:28 AM Good for you Mark! I hope it wasn't too expensive.
tornadomark January 19th, 2009, 12:30 AM Here's photos of some of the rhizomes...nice & healthy!
Mark:cool:
Slipperguy January 19th, 2009, 12:39 AM Wow...awesome!:cool:
Tom Velardi January 19th, 2009, 01:45 AM Nice plants!
Paphraguy January 19th, 2009, 08:59 AM Nice healthy plants!
orchidlover January 19th, 2009, 12:04 PM Lovely healthy roots! How exciting!
dragonfly22 January 19th, 2009, 03:19 PM Very nice plants!
fundulopanchax January 20th, 2009, 05:49 PM Hi, Mark,
Some of those sound extremely interesting!
I look forward to photos of flowers in the next few years!
Best,
Ron Burch
Paul B January 20th, 2009, 05:56 PM Wow nice plants!!cant wait to see them bloom!
Paphy57 January 21st, 2009, 07:40 PM Great looking buds!!
monocotman January 22nd, 2009, 05:52 AM Hi Mark,
those are nice looking plants. Good luck with flowering them.
I have one of the same hybrids from Svante on order from a UK company.
It is hotei x tibeticum.
There is some super potential here for vigorous dark flowered hybrids.
Do you know whether any of this cross have flowered yetand if so what it looked like/
Regards,
David
tornadomark February 28th, 2009, 11:37 AM No, the hotei hybrid has not bloomed yet. We are on the ground floor with this one! I'm very happy to get some of these special plants to the USA.
Mark
newgrower February 28th, 2009, 02:34 PM Sounds like some crazy crosses..
You have a link to were you bought them?
tornadomark March 28th, 2009, 03:25 PM I checked the cyps today (march 28) and they are doing great! They were covered over the winter, but it looks like they are very hardy! So far, So good! ;)
Mark
skipper March 28th, 2009, 06:17 PM That is great to know. Post pics when they bloom.
slowbear October 15th, 2009, 07:02 PM Was it difficult to import them?? I would like to import some flasks from Phytesia, but I'm not certain how to do it. They supply CITES and phyto certs. Do I need anything else??? I'm a hobbyist ... I don't do anything commercial.
Thanks
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