Pleione britannia 'Dorreen' in flower

[RosieC]

Thanks Camille and abhijit.

Originally Posted by abhijit

Nice colour and beautiful bloom too. Pleione is my favorite one but I tried to grow Pleione hookeriana & Pleione maculata two times and obviously I failed. It survived in my house near about 6 months and then the leaf dropped and after that the bulb was rotted. Please guide me about the potting medium and light, water etc. (Here the highest temp. in summer is- 42C and lowest temp. in winter is- 4C. Rainy season - May to July.)

I wasn't successful with maculata, though I did try it before I started with these ones. maculata is an autum flowering one, rather than a spring flowering one and grows differently (warmer or cooler, can't remember which). I don't know kookeriana so not sure if that is like maculata or like this.

I grow in a mixture of potting compost, perlite, fine bark and chopped up sphag. It's probably about equal quantities potting compost and fine bark and just a little each of the other two. At this time of year they are in the house, which probably means the flowers don't last as long as they would if cooler, but it's too cold in the greenhouse just now. I will put them out side or in the greenhouse mid April. In the winter I take them out the pot, dry them off and store them in the greenhouse (down to 5C ) in a box or empty covered pot. I kept them quite moist when growing.

[abhijit]

Originally Posted by RosieC

Thanks Camille and abhijit.



I wasn't successful with maculata, though I did try it before I started with these ones. maculata is an autum flowering one, rather than a spring flowering one and grows differently (warmer or cooler, can't remember which). I don't know kookeriana so not sure if that is like maculata or like this.

I grow in a mixture of potting compost, perlite, fine bark and chopped up sphag. It's probably about equal quantities potting compost and fine bark and just a little each of the other two. At this time of year they are in the house, which probably means the flowers don't last as long as they would if cooler, but it's too cold in the greenhouse just now. I will put them out side or in the greenhouse mid April. In the winter I take them out the pot, dry them off and store them in the greenhouse (down to 5C ) in a box or empty covered pot. I kept them quite moist when growing.

Thanks Rosie for your guidance. So again I’ll try to grow Pleione with your experience. Let’s see what happens in future.