KINKUJAKU-金孔雀

[MattWoelfsen]

This plant is described by the vendor as:" KINKUJAKU is valuable variety which has tiger stripe on small foliages called bean leaf. Usually bean leaf variety with variegation is very very expensive like RYOKUHONOSHIMA ($2000) or KINKIRIN ($15000) etc. But KINKUJAKU is still reasonable and good to start with. To make them produce nice gold tiger stripe, you should give them blight light enough. New leaf come up with solid green color and will produce tiger stripe as getting old. (This feature is called NOCHI-HAZE) The variegation is the most important part for Fukiran. That is why lightning is very important issue for all variegated variety. KINKUJAKU's tiger stripe is called NORI-FU which means variegation appears only on surface. Have great feature in this adorable appearance" (I'm not correcting anything.)

We have discussed before the light requirements of Neofinetia as it relates to variegation. Some variety requires less light while some others, like this Kinkujaku require a lot of light. I own this plant, but it is solid green with very faint tiger stripping. It is in a western facing window and gets a lot of bright light, but maybe it needs a longer duration?

This plant is up for auction on eBay. It has been grown in a lot of light.





It is fascinating to be able to manipulate a plant's appearance by changing light levels.

[Pilot]

Mine is grown in high light for 12 hours and I'm able to get this look. T5 lamps even. It got brown rot though but it looks like it'll survive.


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[dries666]

the sturdy look of the bean leaf together with this golden upperside makes this one I really love looking at .

btw, up until last year my neo's were all grown directly behind an south-east facing window where they got full sun until 2 pm without burning the leaves... the only thing that happened was that my amami furan took on a very black colouration on its leaves, but this has reverted since it has a shadier growing area now... no damage at all.

so maybe you should try to up it's light levels a bit at a time until u get a nice colouration?

greetz,
Dries

[MattWoelfsen]

Pictures of my plant. When I got this plant, it had very faint coloration. In fact I thought the leaves that showed that coloration were on their way to dying. I took it here to my breakfast room to take a closer look, and noticed that the leaves were all showing variegation changes.

While I have it in its "winter rest", I think I'll put a grow light on this space to see if that will help enhance its variegation.

Thank you both for replying.

[MattWoelfsen]

Here is a side view with its flat mates: to the right, Hououden 鳳凰殿, behind it is Gojo-Fukurin 御城覆輪, and Higashidemiyako 東出都--which is my third plant and in need of more light.

[Pilot]

Mine was a pollen donner to my kinrokaku that I lost to rot. The pod was germinated by a lab. Haven't heard from them in a while but the pods worked. So I should have kinrokaku x k-jaku crosses in the future.


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[MattWoelfsen]

I am very glad that Jayfar won this plant!

[Daethen]

Very interesting plant and info. I would have thought that the plant was dying with the yellow coloration.

[ronaldhanko]

Beautiful plant, Matt.

[Pilot]

Oh no, this one looks quite healthy. The trick is high light for this one. Mine gets a fair amount of light and looks very much like this. It is contrary to setsuzen which likes lower light to show her stripes.


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