Having a go at Masdies
 

Picked up a few Masdies at local OS show and sale a couple of months ago. So far, so good with them! :crossfing

I got a small Golden Tiger 'Augie', which had a very faded bloom. Shortly after that finished, I spotted a new little spike.

A Bob Hoffman 'Highland Tangerine' - no blooms or spikes.

And a gorgeous yellow one that I only realized after I got home that it didn't have a tag! One of the yellow Mary Staal cultivars? Regardless - it's fabulous! It had two blooming spikes, and two spikes with large buds when I got it. Seems the first few weeks I had it, I spotted a new spike every few days! The original spikes have finished, but has three more spikes blooming now, plus 4-5 other spikes in various stages (it is possible I have missed one or more - there's one moderate sized spike I only noticed a couple of days ago - there's lots of growth on this plant, and easy to miss the spikes)

I only have one very poor photo of the Golden Tiger - had a very difficult time getting a decent pic - I thought I would get back to try again, but didn't :p Hopefully there will be more opportunities in the future.

First pic of the yellow one is of the blooms it had when I got it, the last two pics are two of the current blooms. (The third one is sort of upside down/facing skyward, but is otherwise a very nice bloom) :p
Blooms start off almost orange, then "fade" to vivid yellow, and then eventually fade to a pale yellow. Pretty large blooms held nicely above the foliage. I just love this one!

Wish me luck! ;)

Beautiful!! Good luck !!!

These are gorgeous, Sonya.

Sonya, you are so lucky and obviously you have what they need. Just beautiful!!!!!

thanks gamistriotis, thanks Ron, thanks Susan :)

We'll have to see how they do in summer - looks like they all are hybrids of cool-intermediate species crossed with one that can take warmer temps. We've had a couple days of sweltering heat that didn't seem to be a problem for them. But it's always much cooler at night here, which should be helpful. Otherwise, it's actually been a bit cool for this time of year.

Hopefully they will do ok -I really love these!

Beautiful. They all look healthy

Sonya, you've got some good looking masdies there! I'd be very interested in hearing how you keep them "somewhat" cool over the summer. I have a few that would not like temps. over 18C at night and I'm thinking that I may have to put their terrarium on the balcony at night time, with a cooling pack underneath the platform.

These are really beautiful, fabulous colours :clap:
I hope they do well for you -- good luck on you're new adventure :)

Thanks Lecent :)

ezil - well, will have to wait and see - I was advised to pot into porous clay pots. So far I have only repotted the one that had no spikes or blooms when I got it. The one I did repot I put into a deeper clay pot (the standard type, that is narrower at the bottom than at the top) - put styro in the bottom of the pot, thinking that if I need to, I could then leave the pot in a shallow saucer with water without the media sitting in the water - and with the low humidity we have during hot weather - the water in the saucer won't even be there very long - don't know if that's a good idea or what ...

The temp here in summer drops a lot at night, so I am hoping that will keep them from being horribly unhappy in summer.

I bought two of these Masdies from the OS members sales, and talked to one of the members who was selling Masdies - so they grow them in the same climate, tho perhaps they have A/C lol :dunno: But he felt pretty confident they should be ok for me :crossfing

Thanks Gloria - hoping it will go well. It's nice to try something different now and again :)

Your Masdies are lovely! I'm sure you will do well with them!