Nope, only the one on FCBS. I may have seen it, but I don't remember it offhand.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:499039}}

i saw the FCBS picture LOL

Lisa,a technical question. You seem to get the enlarged pic from fcbs,but when I do it,even tho I copy the 'enlarged' URL,it always posts as the small pic,postage stamp size. how do you do it ? Bob [always learning] ;)

Yeah, I figured you had, diggety, but I included the link to save everyone else the time of having to go look it up.

Bob, I don't know why it does that for you. I know I can't post anything if I go to it from the index, because the URL doesn't change when you click the thumbnail, so I just google the name and that takes me to a different database. Sometimes the pictures will show up when you do an image search, and sometimes not. If it does come up that way, sometimes when you click on it it will show the photo with a heading above the actual page, and if you click on that photo you get an enlarged picture without any of the writing on the page. If so, then I use that one, but it doesn't seem to be consistantly that way-- I'm not sure why not. Generally whatever way I do it, though, what comes up is what I saw, so I don't know why you'd be getting the thumbnail if you copied the URL from the enlargement.

BTW, this is completely off topic, but is anyone else as irritated as I am by the stupid South Beach Diet commercials that keep coming up on this site and blocking the whole page? I haven't figured out how to get past them. You can click "skip", but then it'll just come up again as soon as you change pages. Guaranteed, I am never gonna buy that stuff! :-P

That, and the little "take a survey" thing really disrupt the flow when you're trying to reply to a post. If they want to run ads down the side, fine, I can just ignore them, but when they block what you're trying to do it sure doesn't help sell the product.

Okay, that's my little rant for today. ;-)

I dont see anything about the "beaches" or surveys

thanks for the info Lisa,I'll try it the way you do and see if that helps.I've been doing it from the index.
And am I ever with you on the S.Beach diet thing! ALWAYS pops up just when you are doing something like trying to post a pic,or submit a post...Arrrggghhh !!
Seems my pop-up blocker has no effect on this site.And the more you try to work around it,the more it repeats !
Benefit? I'm learning to be more patient,not one of my
original gifts. ;) Bob (ps. because some of my friends here on GW are revealing their ages,I'll let you in on mine,75 in Nov.,and I find it hard to believe..where did it all the years go?]

Good age Bob!! In Jan. I'll be 55, just a little ahead of Lisa.

I to have been flustered by the pop ups here, but if you enjoy the forum I guess you have to put up with the garbage. I also will go out of my way to not buy the product, figure if they have to push it that hard it can't be that good!

Had to let ya'll know my Aec. Del Mar has 5 pups around the base. I did not know they could throw that many pups! Was thinking maybe I just have a very gifted mommy plant. LOL
Patris

Congrats on your Del Mar! I'd like to see a photo of all those pups,and that is unusual,I'd think.Did it bloom first? BTW,I put a post onto your 'Mystery Plant',on Sept.10th,asking for an up date.Maybe you missed it? That one had 30 comments.Baffeled all of us.Anything new with it,like maybe a bloom ? Bob
ps;would'nt ya guess,S.Beach diet came up when I went to preview this.Ha !

Here is Del Mar at her best.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/patrisy/Bromeliads/MVC-486F.jpg
I don't know how this happened, but I cannot do a tag on this photo. Where the tag is suppose to be I have a link to cactus jacks cactus?? Anyway the above will get you there.

Here's the babies!
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The bloom is on it's way out now
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I did answer your question Bob, somewhere on here!! Still waiting for the bloom to open up. Lisa did say it could take a couple of weeks so.....waiting, waiting. Not to worry though as soon as that baby opens up I will be posting a picture. I want to know what this is just as bad as the rest of you!
Patris

That Del Mar is a beautiful bloomer.There is no known parentage according to fcbs,but I think there must be some Ae.dichlamydea var.trinitensis in it.Does anyone know ?
Pic attached of triritensis for comparison. Bob
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Nice picture but its still not N.afetr dark

Sorry hdd, kind of got carried away and stole your thread.
Bad Patris took over!

I did do a search for your N. After Dark and the only photo out there seems to be the one Lisa posted. That is a beauty by the way.
Mystery!!

Whoops!..sorry for the wandering off hdd. The only thing I could come up with is a pic on Sharon Peterson's site.But its the same pic that Lisa posted,and is on fcbs also,which you know. However,there are some great Neo photos to be seen there,for anyone interested.Its:
http://home.ozconnect.net/wildfire . And there are two Australian Bromeliad Society links to click on with a wealth of info,and other links that can keep you busy for hours.
I'm sure you are aware of these,but some new bromelites may be interested. Bob

OK Bob stop that! I have several private sites of the Aussie plants. I just brought in a bunch of Aussie stuff in July. I need to stop looking across the ocean LOL. I cant wait for the world conference over there in 2008

Just to clarify, Wildfire Garden is Cheryl Basic's site. She and Sharon are good friends so Sharon seems to be releasing most of her hybrids through Cheryl these days. She says there are more of her plants being grown in Australia than in Hawaii, or anywhere else for that matter. She does sometimes sell at the World Conferences, but the next one's going to be........... in Australia. ;-)

Lisa you were correct on the other source you mentioned. He confirmed that the other day. goody goody :-)

Whoops, jinx!

Hotdiggety, you wouldn't happen to have any highly placed connections in the world of Doberman breeding, would you? That might give you an edge. ;-)

Well, if you can work that source, that's probably your best bet.

Lisa,thanks for the clarification,I kind of lose my concentration when seeing those outstanding Neos.
Sooo,HDD,you brought in some of those amazing Aussie hybrids?
Well,...now you are obligated to treat us with some mouth watering photos. And do you plan on going there in 2008 ?
Sounds like it. Bob

Yes I sure am good lord willing and the creek dont rise and I brought in pups so it will be awhile yet and i think the one showing a lil color i posted Shelldance(which didnt orginate over there) but it seems its the only source now.
LOL Lisa no I know she is into the Dobie's but I'm into Maltese so thats a bit of stretch

Yeah, I don't think she wants to breed her champion female (GW wouldn't let me use the B word) with a Maltese! To say that she is into the Dobies is like saying that New Orleans got slightly moist last year. Ask Ray to tell you the stories, LOL

The broms just can't compete right now, which kind of worked to my advantage when I was over there the other day. She normally wouldn't want to part with something she didn't have much of, but she just didn't seem to care anymore. I managed to get a 'Shelldance' out of her with barely a fight, not to mention the marginated marmorata, a pup of 'Awesome Aussie', and a bunch of her stuff, mostly unnamed crosses. I don't expect this phase to last forever, though. As I said, we all go in and out of it. Maybe I'd better run back over there before it wears off!

I think you better...its like RL he was out now he is renewing interest

Well, I want to give her some time to get some pups on some of the ones I didn't get.

This was my latest haul (not potted up yet):

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oh that shelldance is grown in real high light I have 4 of those i think ill do one in almost direct ligh..whats that tiny lil marginated one in the middle? And the 2 on the left side white and maroon spots

The little marginated spotty guy in the middle is carolinae x fluminensis. The one with the dark purple splotches on the middle left is 'Big Mac Special' and the marmorated one in front of it I'll have to go check the tag, but it must be one of the unnamed crosses because the only named ones of hers that I got were 'Storm Warning', 'Amazon' and 'Twilight Glow', and it's none of those.

There's a 'Hannibal Lecter' hybrid in the center that I think will be cool-- I'm still hooked on banding. And I got a 'Mr. Odean' too, but you probably have that one already. The color is just not quite like anything else.

Maybe you can see some of them better in this picture:

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I'm still having trouble with my camera bleaching everything out. I have to darken everything up in Photoshop, and that tends to oversaturate the colors, although this is not too far off. Also I must have done something to make it shrink everything down. I can take a lot more pictures now, but the clarity is not there. I wish I had a geek in the family, I'm just not that techno-savvy!

I have mine set 1024 so I can hld the detail on one camera. I had the bleaching problem with one of my cameras when the flash was on so I turned it off. I have lights if i feel the need to take pictures in the dark. I have a picture some where with shelldance in bloom(interesting bloom) Mr Odean is nice plant and like you say no color like it(texas tan exibits the color a bit). The black spots on the otherpost I havent seen on my plants and Pemiento here is trouble free(grows like aweed, reproduces like rabbits). The mauve colored plants and marginated plants are hard to grow here for most people.

The flash is not on. The image will look fine on the little screen but then as soon as I press the shutter it changes to an overexposed image. I have to find the darkest spot possible to set the plant in order to get a decent picture, and even then it sometimes does it. I never had this problem before I had it "fixed" for another problem. I don't want to take it back in because they don't do the work here or even take a look to see what's going on, they just send it off to the mainland and then I am without a camera for weeks on end.

I checked the tag on that marmorated Neo, and now I've forgotten which one it was again, LOL. It's one of two 'Gazpacho' (or 'Gespacho'-- which is the wrong spelling of the word, so I don't like to use it, but that's how it's registered) crosses, I think it's G x (Aztec x johannis). The other one was G. x carolinae x Royal Burgundy (not sure where the brackets go on that one). Anyway, that probably doesn't help you much because it doesn't tell you which clone it is, and I think it's going to change as it matures anyway.

I can almost tell one of her crosses just by reading the parentage. We started out right around the same time and were both working with a lot of the same varieties, in fact we used to borrow each other's plants for pollen etc., but then we went off in different directions, and she has her favorite parents and I have mine.