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I need the expert on Neoregelia 'Blushing Tiger'
I bought two of these from different sellers, mail order, so sight unseen. They appear to be quite different.
The one on the left stays almost golden with tiger stripes and blushes when in flower, where as the one on the right has a pinkish hue always, and doesn't seen to brighten up much on flowering. Could the one on the right be Neoregelia 'Gympie Delight'?
They are side by side, and receiving the same cultural treatment, so by rights, should look more alike, don't you think? Also, both are last summers pups, removed at the same time, and the same size.
mmmmm, my pots need cleaning!
Hi B_A, I'm no expert on these, but have both BT and what I bought as Gympie Delight. The one on the left certainly looks like a BT grown in medium light (background colour would be more orange in bright light).
The one on the right looks to be a bit of a puzzle. It looks too pink for a BT and sort-of looks like Gympie Delight, but the Gympie Delight I have (also grown next to a BT)is distinctly mauve-ish rather than pink-ish . Maybe you have the real Gympie Delight and I don't. Or maybe there are few different but similar-ish clones from the Gympie Delight cross floating around. Or maybe we both have Gympie Delight and the differences between our two plants are cultural?
Interested in anyone else's thoughts. Cheers, Paul
I guess that's my cue. ;-)
I'm not sure I have an answer, though. At first look, I thought they were both BT, just grown under different conditions. If you had just purchased them that wouldn't be too surprising. It sounds like you've been growing them both through at least one blooming cycle, though, so if they're both getting the same amount of light and fertilizer they should look about the same at this point.
I don't have Gympie Delight, so I can't really comment on that. I've always wondered about it, though, since the photo on FCBS looks so BT-like. Does it blush when it blooms? If so, I need to get one for my collection, but I don't think it's available in the US.
For the record, there is only one clone of BT, but it can vary greatly depending on growing conditions. Most other people seem to grow it better than I do. Mine in my 40% shadehouse tend to develop the pinky-bronze tone of your plant on the right, B_A, and it also has a tendency to lose some of its zonation under those conditions, particularly if it gets fed much, and during bloom it blushes so much you can hardly see the tiger part. The ones I just throw underneath the bench look closer to your plant on the left, greener background and stronger dark banding. I'm coming to the conclusion that it likes lower light but minimum feed for maximum effect, at least under my conditions.
Yes, there is also an Unblushing Tiger, which is greener with stronger banding, but, as the name implies, no red cup. It has apparently gotten around Oz under various names, including Spring Tiger. It is a Blushing Tiger F2, which is how it was tagged when I sold one to an Aussie customer, so it's not too much of a stretch to think it may have subsequently been tagged as just BT. It has rounder tips than the plant on the left, though, and if yours blushed, then that definitely rules that out.
It might help to know the source of each one.
Thanks for your replies, I bought the originals as pups, last year. They both flowered, the one below in Dec 08, (Mother plant of the one on the left in the previous pics, came from the Brisbane area)
and the other began to flower in October 08, (the mother of the one on the right in the previous pics, came from warner, in Qld)I won't post the sellers names incase something comes back to bite me.
One pic is with the flash, so it looks a bit different, but you get the idea.
Sorry, I'm not familiar enough with Aussie geography or seasons to draw any conclusions from that. I figured if we could track the source directly back to me that would help clear things up, but I understand if you don't want to name names.
Is the lower pic the plant on the right? The cup looks more pinky-lavender than BT's normal red, but photo color can be deceiving. Did both plants self-seed? I don't know anything about Gympie Delight's habits, but BT is a major selfer. If all of the berries did not set up (pollinators or no pollinators), then it's not BT.
That brings up another possibility, that someone grew out some F2s and labelled them BT. It happens. Some people don't realize that hybrids don't come true from seed. If you grew out the seeds that would tell you a lot too. Despite their outward similarities, GD has a very different genetic makeup than BT, as you can tell by looking at its grexmates on FCBS.
Still, I'm not seeing any overwhelming reason to jump to the conclusion that one of them must be mislabeled. Neos can be very reactive to subtle differences in media, etc., this cv. in particular.
Hi B_A, hi Lisa,
Managed to get this pic of my two plants together. Very early this morning before work so the light isn't ideal, but the colours are pretty close to what you see.
Plant on the left is poor old mama BT with pups 7, 8 & 9 on the way and its the middle of winter, so she's lost the blush of youth, but the characteristics are still sort-of there, with the remains of a general tendency for a reddish-orange wash over the leaves and what's left of an intense dark hot pink-red around the cup.
The plant on the right is my Gympie Delight. It is also a mama but a bit more youthful, with pups 1 & 2 on the way. The general wash over the leaves is mauve rather than the orange-red of BT, and the cup is a more of a pastel mauve and this is about as intense as it has been, nowhere near the intensity of the hot pink-red that used to be more evident on the BT.
These two plants have been grown virtually next to each other for well over a year and these differences have remained consistent. Having seen your second lot of pics now B_A, I'd say that the plant in your bottom pic is the same as the 'Gympie Delight' that I have. Since this looks like the pics on fcbs of the hybridiser's plant and I bought it from a reputable seller located in the same general area as the hybridiser, I'd say we could both be pretty confident we have Gympie Delight.
Hey Lisa! I just re-read your point about BT selfing, donned the head torch, raced down the yard and gave some sepals a tweek. Old mama BT has set every flower and the berries are chockers with seed, just as you said, but poor old GD? Not a single one. So B_A, if your BT (not with question mark) fits with Lisa's point about selfing, I reckon your original proposition of having BT and GD is probably spot-on (groan - I swear I didn't mean it!)
Interested in your thoughts Lisa, and sorry if I've gotten carried away again. I just love this stuff and can't help myself. Cheers, Paul
Wow, Paul, they really do look a lot alike, don't they? I would have taken one look at your pic and said they were the same plant, so thanks for your description and explanation. Sounds like the self-seeding test may well settle the question.
Now I'm going to get even more carried away (and further off-topic) because this grex of Margaret Paterson's is one that has always fascinated me (see link below, ain't FCBS grand?). While I would not have kept and registered so many cvs, the fact that she did allows people like myself to study the results and get a crash course in genetics by observing which traits of the parents (and grandparents, etc.) have come to the fore in each of the offspring. Unfortunately the ancestry of the pollen parent is unknown (which would have made it REALLY interesting), but given that neither parent is zonated, and zonation tends to be recessive, it is amazing to me that this trait has resurfaced as strongly as it has in several of the offspring, apparently from the distant maternal great-grandparent ampullacea. Does anyone have Gympie Promise or G Twilight, Tiger, Amethyst, etc. for comparison? It looks like GD is probably the best of that lot, particularly judging by the fact that the others are mostly photographed from below only.
Now the question is where can I get one without traveling to Oz?
Here is a link that might be useful: FCBS search: Satsuma x Little Dazzler
Hello again, thanks for that info Lisa. What is an F2, and what are the parents of Neo. 'Blushing Tiger'? I was surprised to read that Neo. 'Gympie Delight' comes from N. 'Satsuma'. I remember looking at all the N. 'Gympies' on FCBS some time ago, and thinking I wasn't all that taken with them. The pictures were what made me think my plant was a GD, rather than BT.
The second pic is quite true to colour, which is what led me to my thinking it was GD. I've just now pulled some of the seed capsules and they've never set, where as when I checked the Neo 'Blushing Tiger' it HAS got seed. What am I likely to get if I grow them on?
Paul, like mine, your BT has a larger flower head than the GD, did it remain that size? and the colour is so close as to convince me I'm right in my thinking. Your plants look huge though! What do they measure in span?
I guess the safest thing to do, is plant them in the garden and don't pass them on, (The suspect GD) then I won't confuse the issue with some poor unsuspecting brom collector.
Thank you so much for all your help and I've enjoyed the ongoing discussion. I'm going to go find something else to question now! Tee hee.
The F2 generation is what you get when you self-pollinate a hybrid, B_A. Another way of saying the same thing is "x self". No new blood added, but the genetic deck gets reshuffled. If an F2 is self-pollinated you get F3s, and so on. Depending on how complex the original hybrid was, you may get some that look sort of like one or the other parent, or go off in another direction entirely. The more different species are in its background, the more different directions it can go in, both in the original cross and in subsequent generations. You can see that in the Gympie grex.
Blushing Tiger is carolinae 'Perfecta' x ('Marnier-Lapostolle' F2). Only 3 species in the mix, and none of them have any marmoration, so despite their superficial resemblance, BT and GD will behave very differently if used as parents. You probably won't get anything great if you grow out BT's selfed seed. Maybe one or two halfway decent zonates, maybe not. The odds of getting anything that looks just like the mother or better are pretty low for this one. The majority will almost certainly be kind of muddy-looking and lightly flecked rather than banded, and very few will have the red cup. Its best traits seem to be recessive, so it's kind of frustrating to work with.
Hey Paul, I just noticed your BT has a couple of thin stripes of what looks like variegation, or am I seeing things? Better keep an eye on that. If you get a variegated pup I call first dibs!
Hi B_A, those two plants of mine are both around 35cm across the furthest leaf tips. The mesh in the background is only 25mm square - makes the two plants look the size of carcharodon Tigers! Sorry about that.
Hi Lisa, you've sprung me. That certainly is a stripe of variegation and I've been going to get around to asking you about it for a while. Sorry to indulge in a bit more thread-jacking B_A, but this seems like a good time.
It first appeared in that leaf in the top left hand corner then repeated in the next 2 (final) leaves from that sector. Shame it started so high up the plant. I've had it half on its side with the striped sector facing the sun for the last 5 months to try to stimulate pups there and I've been rewarded with 3 positioned more-or-less below the variegation, two of them just starting to open out and the third still closed but developing.
No sign of variegation on these just-opening pups yet, but I guess that's not surprising because the top pup is still two leaves below the first variegated leaf on the mother plant. Do you think it would be worth waiting a bit longer until these pups have a few well-developed leaves before I decide they have no variegation and chop them off? Or would it be better to chop them off as soon as they open, until I get one that is obviously variegated?
I already have plenty of pups from this plant, so my main concern is trying to keep the mother plant going for long enough to get a pup forming in the variegated area. This is so far up the plant, I think poor old mama is going to need all the help she can get so I'd love to get your thoughts on this.
Cheers, Paul
I was thinking of that Aztec Gold article too, Rick, and it sounds like you were too, Paul. Not much I can add to that, as I've never actually tried the process myself. I occasionally will get a thin stripe of variegation on a leaf and hope that it will pup from that leaf axil and that the pup will be more variegated, but so far it's never happened and I haven't gone to any great lengths to try to force pups out of a high leaf axil. If I did, I think my tendency would be to remove any unvariegated pups while they are still very young, rather than wait and see if they will develop the variegation later on. I think you are right in assuming that it is unlikely to pup that high up otherwise.
Before you go to all that trouble, though, you might want to check those stripes a little closer and make sure they look healthy. Often an isolated stripe of lighter tissue will show viral tendencies, i.e. turn brown easily, etc. That's something you don't want to propagate.
Hi Rick, hi Lisa, thanks for your info. You're right about John Catlan's 'Aztec Gold' article. I'd been waiting for a chance to try it ever since I read it, then along came mama BT with pinstripes. Here she is with pups, a few minutes ago.
Lisa, after your comment about the health of the tissue in those white stripes, I've had a good close look at them. Not a sign of a blemish anywhere and the white tissue looks really quite robust, like the white tissue in meyendorffii albomarginata, so that bit of it seems hopeful.
As you've suggested, a real problem is that those stripes are very narrow, only 8-12 cells wide in fact (I just couldn't resist sticking it under the microscope), so even if I do get it to pup that far up, the likelihood of getting those white cells included in an axillary meristem is going to be pretty small - a real lottery. Still, I've got a free ticket, and .... hmmmm, the stripe in that lowest leaf is just off centre, so maybe there's a chance .... dream on Paul!
Anyway, I've just been ruthless. Those two pups are now gone and mama has had a feed. Thanks for your help, and I'll let you know if anything happens! Cheers, Paul
No worries with the thread-jack Paul, I'm happy to see where this goes and read up on any interesting stuff that comes up. I have Aechmea 'Aztec Gold' so it was with interest that I read that article.
Gosh leisa, what a good eye you have! I had to squint and get really close before i could see the variegations.
Thanks too for the education on F2 and so on. I very recently received a seedling from A. 'Rodco' x A. 'Rodco', which looks like A. lueddemanniana with a slightly pink flush. How would you label that? As for sowing the seed of Neo. 'Blushing Tiger' I might give it a miss then, as limited room and time to care for them is an issue.
Paul, I would be removing the leaves that had no variegation, to expose the white stem just below the affected, variegated leaves, and try forcing/growing the pups from there. If that didn't work, I'd remove the variegated leaf and try growing a pup just above it?
Of course I'm no expert.......(as much as I'd like to be) but don't the pups need to come from the same affected cells as in the variegated leaf?
Keep going on this thread won't you, as I'm enjoying all of this.
Re: 'Rodco' x 'Rodco', you can tag it either 'Rodco' F2 or 'Rodco' x self. I'm very surprised that all of Rodco's seedlings were not albino though. I know we've had a similar discussion about Mend too. I don't have Mend but my one attempt to grow Rodco's seeds produced nothing but pure white seedlings (that all died), which is consistant with my and others' experience with albomarginated broms in general, so this is a puzzle to me. If it was Alvarez, that would be a different story.
As to BT, I wouldn't remove any unvariegated leaves from the mother plant, particularly since it doesn't have many leaves to begin with. It needs the foliage to provide food and energy to the emerging pups, and since the goal here is to keep mama alive as long as possible, it doesn't seem like a good idea to limit her reserves. Also, in my experience, exposing the soft white stem tissue is usually not a good idea either, being more likely to cause the plant to give up altogether than to produce a pup there. I would, however, remove any berries from the cup, so that she doesn't have to waste energy supporting those.
It's probably a long shot, but it will be interesting to see if you can do it, Paul. I can't believe you actually counted the cells, LOL. If you have that kind of equipment lying around, you're way ahead of me!
Hi B_A, hi Lisa,
Thanks again for the extra info. Lisa, I'm with you on the leaves, she doesn't have many left, poor old thing. Great point about the berries - I hadn't thought of that at all. They will be gone in a few minutes. As for counting the cells, my brom-mad mate reckons I'm crackers .... sometimes it's hard to disagree! Cheers, Paul
Hi Leisa and Paul, I see your point on keeping the leaves. I guess if you had more than one to experiment, you could try a few different ideas, but not so eh?
Ummm, Leisa, I think the A. 'Rodco's might have been inverta, does this describe a plant with variegation in the middle of the leaves, as opposed to Albomarginata, meaning white at the edges? And maybe that is why the seedlings did not turn out as albino. I found this article to try and work it out. http://www.bromsqueensland.com/Aechmealueddemanniana.htm
The A. 'Rodco' I have differs to A. 'Alvarez' as it is a smaller plant and has a pink/red flush through the entire leaf, including the variegation, where A. 'Alvarez' has retained the green colouring. According to the above link, rodco inverta should have brighter pinks and greener greens, so I am at a bit of a loss as to what exactly I have. Oh boy, looks like picture time again. I will start a new thread on this one I think.
Paul, I would love to have a microscope or steroe scope to look in. I studied pest and disease as part of a horticulture course and thoroughly enjoyed the amazing things I saw going on, on the back of leaves!
Hi B_A,
I was lucky enough to have a mate working in a teaching lab many years ago when they were throwing out some ancient microscopes. Still works fine, just no new-fangled gizmos. You're right about it being fun to look at some of the stuff. Problem is, it can be a bit like looking up disease symptoms on the internet - sometimes you really wish you hadn't. Take spider mites for example - what a nightmare!
Cheers, Paul
B_A, "inverta" just means the opposite of whatever it came from. If it had sported from a variegate like Alvarez, the inverta would be marginated, but if it came from an albomarginated plant like Rodco, then the inverta would have the pink/white stripe down the middle. I usually use the term "medio-picta", as the article does. Technically that may not be entirely correct, as it describes a very specific type of pattern with multiple stripes, but the officially correct term for a broad albino stripe down the center of the leaf is "variegated". Since that can also apply to all different types of variegation as a whole I find it needlessly confusing and prefer the other term.
At any rate, if the parent(s) of your seedling is a Rodco inverta, then that is important information that should be included in the name. It makes sense that a Rodco inverta F2 would be pinkish green and unvariegated in any sense of the word.
Paul, if you think spider mites are bad, try reading about eyelash mites! I guarantee you'll wish you hadn't. ;-)
Thanks again Lisa. I am learning quite a bit, which is exactly why I joined this forum! thanks heaps. I looked medio-picta up previously, as it was a term I'm unfamiliar with. I need to get a bigger journal for my notes. LOL
Paul, yes! It was like looking at a veritable zoo when looking at leaves under the stereo scope, and quite often there was more than one pest, accompanied by beneficials, and dead carcasses! How about exploded aphids? They were pretty interesting. The only problem I had was getting sore eyes, because I'd forget to blink! Watching crawlers coming out from under scale is pretty creepy!
Lucky you to get your equipment for free. Who care about new fangled gizmos, as often the older gizmos have less to go wrong with them.
Yes, great discussion guys...Lisa (or anyone else?), I was wondering if you knew whether Neo. 'Screaming Tiger' is also a "selfer" and whether it's F2 progeny from seed would suffer same dull colours / poor zonations etc as BT ?
Cheers, Graeme
(currently sharing a bed with fav broms in chilly kiwiland ...grrrr)
Greame, my Screaming Tiger did not self pollinate and it flowered in the middle of Summer under the most favourable conditions.
And Dennis, my BT is also pushing a flower - most frustrating this time of the year! Fortunately I had a friend's plant in flower during December to work with a little!
Graeme, Screaming Tiger is not a habitual selfer, which is one reason I prefer working with it. It must not be self-incompatible, though, since I saw a rather interesting F2 of it at Sharon Petersen's a while back. I don't know if it blushes and she couldn't remember either. Sorry about the fuzzy picture, but don't you love those fine lines? I'll have to get back over there and see how this one's doing.
As long as I'm posting pics, here's one of ST on the right and BT on the left. ST seems to hold its zonation better than BT when it blooms, at least for me (another reason I prefer working with it).
I actually crossed the two, hoping to turn the recessive zonation and cup color into dominant traits by reinforcement. No such luck. Out of a very large grex there were only a very small handful with decent zonation. All of them had poor form, as BT's offspring for some reason almost always come out with very narrow leaves (yet another reason it's a poor parent), and the one on the left is the only one of that inherited both the tiger stripes and the blush. Not as nice as either parent, but I still want to play with it to see if I can reinforce those traits.
Still, you can occasionally get a good cross using BT. Skotak crossed it with Hannibal Lecter, and this clone was selected from that grex by Michael Kiehl, who named it BAM! Very strong, firm, symmetrical plant with good markings........ but still no red cup.
I've gotten one or two worth keeping too, like Blueberry Tiger. It does have the @*%! narrow leaves and no cup color, but the bold stripes make up for it. BT on lower right, BBT on upper left below. The one on the upper right is Mahogany Ripple, which also has BT in the mix. On the lower left is Groves' Hannibal L x Foster's Pink tips, still one of my favorite zonates!
Ditto Paul...thanks so much for the awesome pics and your comments Lisa. I nearly died looking at your BBT and the Groves Pink tips. We just don't get those type plants at ALL in NZ, which is a shame...(will have rectify that I think, would love to buy some seed one day if poss ?!? ;-)
I have some ST seed I am going to try that was hand pollinated (not selfed), so will be interesting to see what happens.
Just wondering Lisa...are there any other good selfers you know of in any of the Tiger type/zonate ranges of hybrids ? (other than BT and HL hybrids - Clarice etc). ie; would the Skotak BAM using BT and HL also be a selfer like it's parents and give good looking progeny?
Cheers, Graeme
This is my first bloom on BAM, Graeme, so I don't know yet if it's a selfer but it certainly wouldn't surprise me, given its parents. HL will sometimes self but not always. BT always does, and so does BBT and Unblushing T. I grew out quite a few of the BBT F2s and there were quite a few zonates in there, but the form on most of them was pretty lax and spindly, so they met the trash pile.
I don't know how far down the line the selfing trait gets carried. BT's daddy was an F2 of Marnier-Lapostolle, so that one selfs. Presumably it inherited that trait from zonata, which also selfs. In fact the only major difference between BT and ST is the zonata genes in BT.
HL x FPT is also a selfer, which I found out after I had loaded it up with other pollen! Looking at the seedlings, though, a lot of them look like the cross took, so it's not a major setback, just something to keep in mind. What is more of an issue is that it doesn't seem to want to pass on its zonation. I heard this secondhand while I was still waiting to see the results of my crosses, and they pretty much confirm it. There's a few, but so far none look like they are going to be a nice as mommy. This includes the F2s, crosses with Tiger, BT, Punctate, etc. They're still young so anything could happen, but I'm not holding my breath. BT was the one and only zonate in its grex but it showed its stripes very early on, as is common for zonates. I figure if I don't see anything by the time they're ready to pot up into 4" pots, out they go!
When you're dealing with these kinds of recessive traits, getting all the ones you want in one place is kind of like herding cats.... or doing Rubik's cube. Of course if it were easy somebody would have done it by now! ;-)
Thanks Lisa for your informative reply. Yes i know what you mean...the hunt for the next "zonata supastar" goes on. It's a shame it all takes so long and there are so many "failures" along the way. But, I guess that's why we all love doing this though aye ?!
One other question, (albeit a slightly different topic that I am sure many others may be interested in your answer)...if "any" Neo HYBRID "self-sets" seed (other than those listed above that are proven), will the seed ALWAYS be fertile (ie; grow into something resembling mum ?)...or, if the seeds are germinated can you often expect nothing happen ?
Just wondered in your experiences if there were any rules/ guidelines to this phenomenon to look out for ??...eg; colour/size of ovary/sepals etc ??
I'm not sure I quite understand your last question, Graeme. Are you asking about seed viability or about whether or not they will come true to the parent?
No seed from any hybrid can be expected to "grow into something resembling mum", until you get to about the F20 or F30 generation where it's been crossed with itself so many times that the genetics have become stabilized and it acts more like a species than a hybrid.
As to viability, not all of the flowers that are pollinated will set seed, and of those that do, not all of it will be viable. Sometimes you'll get seed set but it won't germinate. In hybrids it can sometimes be an indication that the parents are not compatible, particularly in bigeneric crosses. Other times, though, it's just a mystery.
Off the top of my head I can't think of any self-pollinating hybrids that habitually produce "blanks", but I've certainly had that experience with (self-pollinating) species. Not Neos so much as other genera.
In broms that normally have fairly large seeds you can sometimes tell just by looking at them that something's not right, particularly if they look unusually flat or dark or shrivelled. With Neos, though, it's usually pretty hard to tell anything's wrong until you sow them and nothing comes up, or they turn all moldy.
Age can be a factor too. Many brom seeds can lose viability in a matter of months, particularly if they're sealed in airtight containers. Fresher is always better.
I'm with all you others! lisa, that Neo. 'Blueberry Tiger' is gorgeous! Have you ever managed to get a plant to f20 yet?
To all you Kiwis, depending on where you are exactly, Brrrrrr!
Dennis and Japie, what part of the world are you in?
I'm liking that Neo. 'Screaming Tiger' too, but not as much as BBT
Thanks Lisa, you ended up answering most of what I asked in the end I think....but just in case you can add anything else into the pot ?? ;-)....
Firstly, sorry for confusing things a little by mentioning "resembles mum". I realise that wouldn't be the case, I was more meaning....
(a) if ANY hybrid DOES self-set seed (ie; is a "selfer")...would it ALWAYS be fertile to sow and would it normally always create something resembling the plant it came from?...and....
(b)if there was any way you could tell from looking at the Neo. seed capsule or seed itself, whether the seed is worth squeezing out to try or not ?...(ie; if the seed looks normal and is rusty brown/dark in colour and is a solid seed - then it IS definitely worth a go....or is there something else you could check to do with either the complete Neo. ovary (size/shape/mass/colour?)...OR, the (shape/form/mass/colour) of the individual seeds....OR, amount of seed that comes out, that would give a clue it is a "NO GO" and infertile?)
I had heard that if "some" types of Neo hybrid self-set, their seed wouldn't be fertile, so it wouldn't even be worth even trying to germinate it (kind of like trying seed from the albomarginated hybrids, which will always give albino seedlings that will die, so no point right ?).
...Lots of questions I know, but sometimes the smallest thing and someone with alot of experience can make a difference here, that would save a lot of us wasted time .....and not to mention wasted propagator space! ;-)
Anyone else have anything to add ?
Cheers G
Speaking of spurious zonation, I have Apollo's Poetry (Emily x Rainbow) and it really shows some nice zonation and neither parent shows any zonation. So I asked Jason what's up and he says the Rainbow that he used had some zonation. BTW, A-P selfs.
B_A & Graeme, I'm glad you like Blueberry Tiger! I like that plant a lot despite its little quirks. It's just as much of a mad pupper as papa BT (if not more so), so it should be making the rounds of your part of the world before too much longer. (BTW, Japie and Dennis are both in South Africa)
I'm not sure what more I can say to your questions, Graeme. I think we may be using terms somewhat differently so that's a bit confusing. For example, seed from albomarginated plants is not infertile. It germinates just fine, but once it does the lack of chlorophyll makes the seedlings die off at about the 3 leaf stage. There are some albomarginated selfers, like Milagro, so I wouldn't waste any time trying to grow those. Otherwise it's mostly just trial and error, and it doesn't take that much time or space to find out. If your seed doesn't germinate within about a month after sowing, throw the pot out!
We must have been posting at the same time, Nick. That Apollo's Poetry is a nice looking plant. It looks much better in your pic than in Jason's! This tends to confirm what I've always suspected, which is that some of his hybrids could look much nicer than they appear on FCBS if he would just grow them a little harder.
I'm surprised at the amount of zonation on it too. My Rainbow has just a bit at the tips so I haven't been inspired to do much with it, but I may have to rethink that. I've crossed Tiger (which is much more zonated than Rainbow) with all kinds of things and it generally loses its stripes in the cross unless it's crossed with another zonate. If Emily had some hidden zonation in its background it would be less surprising, but there is none (unless Green Apple has some ampullacea or something in it, which seems doubtful). Interesting.......
I doubt it, Nick. You might get some dark speckling but that's about it. Yes, it will probably have blue flowers, but no spike, just a mound in the center. Ae. fendleri is not a selfer (at least my clone isn't). I once grew out some open-pollinated seed from it expecting to get a bunch of fendleri babies, but they were all hybrid. About 90% of them had crossed with dichlamydea v. trinitensis, for which it has a particular affinity. There were a couple other Aechmeas that made it into the mix, but also a couple of Neos too. One of them must have been Dexter's Pride, the foliage looked very much like that, and the other may have been cruenta or something with red tips. Kind of interesting, but they didn't get me too excited.
Somebody should try crossing HL with some other genera though, just to see if you could pass on the zonation. That one seems to transmit it a bit better than most, but it still gets lost most of the time with a non-zonated partner.
Can't think of any other little secrets at the moment, Graeme, but if anyone else has some, jump in!
well hello everyone,i was most interested in all the discussion on Neo.B.T and all of the plants shown are slightly differerent to mine,i have no idea yet on how to post a photo so that will have to wait ,but mine have broader leaves and much more of an orange tone,and when selfed the bulk are nicely zonated BUT yes narrow leaves,my B.T also exhibits very good zonation all over.So how variable is this delightfull little plant according to location, fertilizer etc?By the way i should introduce myself,I am Jacob Koning and i am a MAD Vriesea hybridizer of the foliage types,you can see some of my humble resultys on FCBS,must say that i am most impressed with the responses about Neo.BT,
Welcome, we have all drooled over some of the Vrieseas that you have created that Kerry has posted pictures of previously.
I read a great article about your Vriesea Hybridising in Nov/Dec 08 Bromeletter, is there any chance of you summerising some of those points in a new post?
Yes, welcome Jacob, or is it Jack? We've all admired your Vrieseas on FCBS. You must have unlimited patience, I dabbled in them for a while, but their slow pace drove me 'round the bend!
I'm glad you got a good number of zonates in your BT F2s. I only tried growing them out once, and the only keeper for me was UnBT. Do any of yours blush?
There have been many threads on how to post pictures. The link below is one of them. I don't know why the GW doesn't just put instructions at the top of the page!
Here is a link that might be useful: How to post photos
Welcome to the bromeliad forum, Jack. I'll second Rick and Lisa's sentiments- I think we've all enjoyed the photos of your Vriesea hybrids here on the forum, and on the fcbs.
This has been a fascinating thread. A special thanks, Lisa, for sharing your experiences with us so openly. Knowing BT's traits helps me understand the results I'm starting to see here. I had my first opportunity to hybridize some of the little banded buggers only two years ago. I used 'BT' only as a pollen parent with a couple of plants. First seed parent was 'Punctate Red'. It seems difficult to believe that you could cross two banded parents, and not be guaranteed banded offspring! I'd say about 50% are showing some signs of banding, but only a handful are showing any sign of promising results so far. Some are still too small to pass judgement one way or the other, but knowing what I have learned here, I'll feel less guilt when I get around to the culling process.
The other seed parent was 'Hatsumi'. So far, it's a total disappointment. Not only no banding, but none of the "marbled" appearance of 'Hatsumi'. I don't know how long I should wait before I just give up on that cross. Any suggestions?
My two cents worth on the discussion of 'Rodco' offspring- if no variegation is evident, then it's practically identical to any other plain old Ae. luddemanniana.
hello all and sundry,thank you for your kind comments on my Vrieseas,Yes Lisa i do have alot of patience but will admit it would be helpfull if they where just a tad faster growing,and thank you for the photo link i will see what i can do, you see i have only just got a computer and its a new experience for me,i will try to answer a few items here;i would expect very few B.T s x self to blush,due to the Neo,zonata in its heritage (once)now if you then self the plant Neo.zonata effectifly appears twice this my not neccesarely improve the banding potential but will counteract the blushing ability as it is stronger that the Neo,carolinea 's ability to blush ,also the self polinating trait of the zonata is very dominant,what you have to realise is that although you may cross A and B ,you really are sleeping with the whole family so look at what the background is.i used to breed orchids ,hippeastrums,eppiphyllums,gloxinia's and found that some traits are picked up even if 5 generations removed,by one of the other parents so if you use a plant that "unlocks" these secrets mark it as such (thats why you should write it all down)its generally the pollen parent),cause that is a valuable asset,in general its the pollen parent that influences the colours and pod parent that influences shape and size;bearing in mind that it does not mean a big plant will make big plants :Vr.gigantea makes plants smaller than itself BUT IT STILL INFLUENCES SHAPE AND SIZE,if it where all easy and certain than we would have champion plants up to our eyeballs ,I like Vr,fenestralis but it takes a second generation to bring out the hidden colour influences,i also know that without Vr.gigantea i would produce narrow leaved hybrids only but i try to stay away from Var,seideliana (ex Nova )far to many problems with that beast in general ,but each to their own ,as for your question Rick it would be best if you ask a question(S) directly in regards to my article and i will see if i can answer it,i keep no secrets at all so will do my best .thank you all again,bye for now
Hi Jacob (again),
I had no idea who "vriesea" was until I opened this post.
The first post I opened this morning was my own; "Surprise!" to see if I had any responses and read what you had posted.
You certainly join our ranks with a great reputation and I'm sure you and your experience, especially in the Vriesea hybridization field will be well received on this forum.
As for posting pic's; well, being computer illiterate I had heaps of trouble with it at first but with various help from this forum and finally a personal email lesson from Kerry I managed to learn how to use it.
Give Kerry a call and ask her for the lesson she gave Nev. and I'm sure she'll be pleased to help you.
All the best, Nev.
Hello Lisa (every one calls me Jack) i have found in my limited experience with Neo's that all the zonated species limit the blushing ability of the other parents ,sure you will get the odd seedling that has some but thats the exception,pity as its such a nice feature,but its not all that easy to get good zonation,unless you use 2 plants with that feature e.g hannibal lector,charcaradon Tiger will not do it on its own very well,and no blushing
That is consistant with what I've been finding too, Jack. It just seems like when you DO get the odd seedling that has both zonation and cup color you should be able to cross it with another one that has both of those traits and increase your odds. So far, however, preliminary results haven't been very encouraging. I keep trying, though!
Sorry Paul, I forgot to respond to your comments before. I'm a bit surprised that BT crossed with Punctate Red didn't produce more zonates. I crossed BT with Punctate (standard yellow form) and got quite a few, as did Michael K with the same cross. No blushers though, at least so far.
Funny, I tried a similar cross to your second one, but with Pink Mosaic instead of Hatsumi. I don't know what posessed me to do that, just idle curiosity I guess. Got nothing, nada, zilch, and don't plan to try anything similar any time soon. ;-)


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Exclusive: The methane time bomb
Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide
Tuesday 23 September 2008
The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists.
The Independent has been passed details of preliminary findings suggesting that massive deposits of sub-sea methane are bubbling to the surface as the Arctic region becomes warmer and its ice retreats.
Underground stores of methane are important because scientists believe their sudden release has in the past been responsible for rapid increases in global temperatures, dramatic changes to the climate, and even the mass extinction of species. Scientists aboard a research ship that has sailed the entire length of Russia's northern coast have discovered intense concentrations of methane – sometimes at up to 100 times background levels – over several areas covering thousands of square miles of the Siberian continental shelf.
In the past few days, the researchers have seen areas of sea foaming with gas bubbling up through "methane chimneys" rising from the sea floor. They believe that the sub-sea layer of permafrost, which has acted like a "lid" to prevent the gas from escaping, has melted away to allow methane to rise from underground deposits formed before the last ice age.
They have warned that this is likely to be linked with the rapid warming that the region has experienced in recent years.
Methane is about 20 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and many scientists fear that its release could accelerate global warming in a giant positive feedback where more atmospheric methane causes higher temperatures, leading to further permafrost melting and the release of yet more methane.
The amount of methane stored beneath the Arctic is calculated to be greater than the total amount of carbon locked up in global coal reserves so there is intense interest in the stability of these deposits as the region warms at a faster rate than other places on earth.
Orjan Gustafsson of Stockholm University in Sweden, one of the leaders of the expedition, described the scale of the methane emissions in an email exchange sent from the Russian research ship Jacob Smirnitskyi.
"We had a hectic finishing of the sampling programme yesterday and this past night," said Dr Gustafsson. "An extensive area of intense methane release was found. At earlier sites we had found elevated levels of dissolved methane. Yesterday, for the first time, we documented a field where the release was so intense that the methane did not have time to dissolve into the seawater but was rising as methane bubbles to the sea surface. These 'methane chimneys' were documented on echo sounder and with seismic [instruments]."
At some locations, methane concentrations reached 100 times background levels. These anomalies have been seen in the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea, covering several tens of thousands of square kilometres, amounting to millions of tons of methane, said Dr Gustafsson. "This may be of the same magnitude as presently estimated from the global ocean," he said. "Nobody knows how many more such areas exist on the extensive East Siberian continental shelves.
"The conventional thought has been that the permafrost 'lid' on the sub-sea sediments on the Siberian shelf should cap and hold the massive reservoirs of shallow methane deposits in place. The growing evidence for release of methane in this inaccessible region may suggest that the permafrost lid is starting to get perforated and thus leak methane... The permafrost now has small holes. We have found elevated levels of methane above the water surface and even more in the water just below. It is obvious that the source is the seabed."
The preliminary findings of the International Siberian Shelf Study 2008, being prepared for publication by the American Geophysical Union, are being overseen by Igor Semiletov of the Far-Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1994, he has led about 10 expeditions in the Laptev Sea but during the 1990s he did not detect any elevated levels of methane. However, since 2003 he reported a rising number of methane "hotspots", which have now been confirmed using more sensitive instruments on board the Jacob Smirnitskyi.
Dr Semiletov has suggested several possible reasons why methane is now being released from the Arctic, including the rising volume of relatively warmer water being discharged from Siberia's rivers due to the melting of the permafrost on the land.
The Arctic region as a whole has seen a 4C rise in average temperatures over recent decades and a dramatic decline in the area of the Arctic Ocean covered by summer sea ice. Many scientists fear that the loss of sea ice could accelerate the warming trend because open ocean soaks up more heat from the sun than the reflective surface of an ice-covered sea.
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I got to retire
This is only my second day since i have retire.
I worked at the univesty of mo. and they had a buget cut here and layed off some people and they did a early retirment and i got to retire with full benifits. I had been working for the universty for 33 years.and if you add your age and how long you have been there you can retire with full benifits. and mine was enough. And what is good about it is that my husband is on disabuilt and we went to get a
rv and go plces now and i think that we can do what we want to do we don't have any kids.We are going on a vacation next week and we are going to go to Minnesota and Wisconson.
Enjoy your retirement! We recently bought a small RV and will be taking our first trip (to Calif.) in it soon. I'm claustrophobic and I'm not sure that I will feel comfortable sleeping in it, but I'll give it a try. I hope you and your husband have a wonderful trip to Minnesota and Wisconsin. Bettye/AZ
hi Mamatoad How was the trip tp california? We travel about four months during the winter mostly between Minnesota and Texas.We have a travel trailor (our fourth) and it is 31 foot long with a double slide so we have plenty of room now.we started out with a 19foot and a tent with 7 kids so now it is just the two of us we are fine with the trailor. Hope you enjoyed the trip and living in the trailor .
Illene, I'd suggest you sit down and do a good study of your retirement income and how you're going to spend it. Do you really want to blow it all on one quick trip across the country?
Sorry, but it's pretty obvious from your message that you weren't a professor with full tenure/benefits.
RV'ing can be a wonderful life, but it can also provide you with "a little too much closeness" that you might not like so soon after retiring after dealing with lots of different people.
In any case, good luck.
One of my closest friends and her husband retired 5 years ago. They bought a used RV and have traveled across the U.S. every year. They moved from Massachusetts to Alabama and they go back to MA every Christmas season and stay until mid-January. Their children all live in that area and they have a wonderful time making the trip each year and driving across the country in the summer. They are usually gone for 5 of 6 months. I loved their RV. It was really a home on the road with all of the conviences. They are loving it, while I am still working and won't get to retire for at least 10 months. My friends planned their retirement and investments very well. I wish I had done the same.
Yeah, and I worked with two people that ditched their respective spouses, took "early retirement", sold their houses, bought an RV, and were back in town in nine months looking for their old jobs back, divorcing and royally pissed off at one another.
You need to have 'own space"
Ilene, that sounds wonderful to me......I say go for it.....I can tell you that not everyone has trouble spending that much close time with their husbands. I have several friends that are doing it and having a bblast.....We have talkied about it but don't know if we will....I love gardening and animals etc so we may just hang our hats in one area but I do think it would be fun. I am positive I wouldn't have trouble spending 24/7 with my mate, in fact I can't wait....


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Frontrunning: April 1Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/01/2015 07:26 -0400
- Oil holds around $55 as Iran nuclear talks drag on (Reuters)
- Bob Diamond's African Banking Venture Runs Into Problems (WSJ)
- Iran Nuclear Talks Resume With Lavrov Saying Deal at Hand (BBG)
- Wal-Mart Ratchets Up Pressure on Suppliers to Cut Prices (WSJ)
- Renegades of Junk: The Rise and Fall of the Drexel Empire (BBG)
- Explosion at Yemen factory kills at least 25: residents, medics (Reuters)
- Macerich Rejects Simon Property's $16.8 Billion Takeover Bid (WSJ)
- Reckoning Arrives for Cash-Strapped Oil Firms Amid Bank Squeeze (BBG)
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Why Weeks After The ECB QE Started Many Are Already Calling For Its TaperSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/31/2015 17:15 -0400
While we doubt that the ECB will, of its own volition, elect to scale back PSPP out of a highly uncharacteristic respect for sanity and prudence, there are a variety of factors which could lead to a forced taper. Some market participants are already betting that the ECB scales back purchases by the end of the calendar year.
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Frontrunning: March 31Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/31/2015 07:29 -0400
- Apple
- Baidu
- Barclays
- Bond
- Carlyle
- Case-Shiller
- Chicago PMI
- China
- Citigroup
- Conference Board
- Consumer Confidence
- Corruption
- default
- Free Money
- Greece
- Iran
- Kraft
- Newspaper
- Private Equity
- Raymond James
- Reuters
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Saudi Arabia
- Serious Fraud Office
- Tata
- Vladimir Putin
- Wells Fargo
- Yuan
- Iran, powers push for nuclear deal as clock ticks toward deadline (Reuters)
- How DIY Bond Traders Displaced Wall Street's Hot Shots (BBG)
- MillerCoors Caught in a Downdraft (WSJ)
- Saudi-led strikes again hit Yemen overnight (Reuters)
- Even With Free Money, Merkel Still Reluctant to Spend (BBG)
- Britain Uses Tax Breaks to Lure Digital-Game Developers (WSJ)
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Lynn Tilton Charged By SEC For CLO Fraud, As Warned Here Nearly Two Years AgoSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/30/2015 10:35 -0400
Back in September 2013 we wrote "Coming Soon To A Theater Near You: MBIA's $1 Billion World War Z" in which we explained why MBIA will soon have a substantial problem (amounting to just about around $600 million) with several CLOs which we dubbed "Zombie CLOs" or as they were actually known, Zohar, on which it had written insurance, and which would become evident sooner or later once someone took a long, hard look at the collateral manager of the CLOs, namely Lynn Tilton's Patriarch Partners. Well, finally someone did take a long, hard look and today, our warning comes full circle following a shocker out of the SEC accusing Lynn Tilton of fraud and of "hiding the poor performance of loan assets in three collateralized loan obligation (CLO) funds they manage."
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Frontrunning: March 30Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/30/2015 07:54 -0400
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- Ben Bernanke
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- Best Buy
- Blackrock
- Bond
- China
- Crude
- Dallas Fed
- Evercore
- Ford
- General Motors
- Gross Domestic Product
- Hong Kong
- Iran
- Keefe
- Merrill
- Monetary Policy
- Morgan Stanley
- National Health Service
- New Normal
- People's Bank Of China
- Personal Income
- Raymond James
- Real estate
- Realty Income
- Reuters
- Time Warner
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- Obama Ramps Up Lobbying on Iran as Deadline Looms (WSJ)
- Greek yields edge up as lenders scrutinise reform pledge (Reuters)
- Oil prices drop on possible Iran deal, dollar (Reuters)
- Yemen's Houthis Battle for Aden as Saudi Strikes Hit Rebels (BBG)
- Iran nuclear deal to see $20 oil if Tehran floods crude market (Telegraph)
- China's Zhou Says PBOC Has Room to Act on Growth Slowdown (BBG)
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China's Banks Cut Dividends Amid Rising Bad Loans, Expectations Of Falling NIMSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/27/2015 21:25 -0400
"The new normal for the Chinese economy and banking sector includes sluggish growth and persistent credit deterioration," one analyst tells Bloomberg. China's largest banks are seeing loans tied to manufacturing and other sectors sour which is cutting into profitability just as rate cuts squeeze NIM margins.
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5 Things To Ponder: Random MusingsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/27/2015 16:30 -0400
"...The negative divergence of the markets from economic strength and momentum are simply warning signs and do not currently suggest becoming grossly underweight equity exposure. However, warning signs exist for a reason, and much like Wyle E. Coyote chasing the Roadrunner, not paying attention to the signs has tended to have rather severe consequences."
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Euro Zone "Danger Zone" - Greek Bank Runs and UK, Irish Property Prices Falling ... AgainSubmitted by GoldCore on 03/27/2015 09:52 -0400
It's a day of 'master of the universe,' central bank speeches as both Bank of England governor Mark Carney and Fed chief Janet Yellen preach their ultra loose policies and certain market participants lap up the Gospel according to Mark … and Janet ...
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Treasury Collateral Shortage Crosses The Atlantic, Makes European LandfallSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/26/2015 20:30 -0400
We're just a little over two weeks into PSPP and signs are already beginning to show that the ECB is effectively breaking the market. "The soaring cost of borrowing government bonds in secured lending markets highlights the distortions caused by the ECB's asset-purchase scheme, which analysts say could clog up Europe's financial system," Reuters notes.
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Who's Behind All of the Wars?Submitted by George Washington on 03/26/2015 15:09 -0400
All Wars Are Bankers' Wars
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Futures Tumble As Yemen War Starts; Oil, Gold SurgesSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/26/2015 07:18 -0400
- Barclays
- Bond
- Citadel
- Consumer Confidence
- Continuing Claims
- Copper
- Crude
- Dubai
- Equity Markets
- fixed
- Flight to Safety
- Germany
- Gilts
- Greece
- headlines
- Initial Jobless Claims
- Iran
- Iraq
- Italy
- Jim Reid
- Kuwait
- Markit
- Middle East
- Money Supply
- Nikkei
- Portugal
- Risk Management
- Saudi Arabia
- Switzerland
- Yen
- Yuan
In a somewhat surprising turn of events, this morning's futures reaction to last night's shocking start of a completely unexpected Yemen proxy war, which has seen an alliance of Gulf State launch an air, and soon land, war against Yemen's Houthi rebels, is what one would expect: down, and down big. This is surprising, because on previous occasions one would expect the NY Fed, or its pet hedge fund, Citadel, or the BOJ or ECB (via the CME's "Central Bank Incentive Program") to aggressively buy ES to prevent a slide, something has changed, and for the BTFDers, that something may be very fatal with the e-Mini rapidly approaching a 1-handle yet again. The offset to tumbling stocks, as previously observed, is oil, with WTI soaring over 6% in a delayed algo response to the Qatar headlines.
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Frontrunning: March 26Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/26/2015 07:15 -0400
- Saudi Arabia, allies launch air strikes in Yemen against Houthi fighters (Reuters)
- Pilot on Crashed Jet Was Locked Out of Cockpit, NY Times Says (BBG)
- Why Bombing This Tiny Oil Producer Is Roiling the Energy Market (BBG)
- U.S.-led coalition, Iraqis pound Islamic State in Tikrit (Reuters)
- Munger Says Prepare for Harder World as Buying Power Slides (BBG),Mocks Greek 'Idiotic Idea' You Can Vote Yourself Rich (BBG)
- The Central Banker Who Saved the Russian Economy From the Abyss (BBG)
- Bank of Canada says foreign buyers complicate housing market (Reuters)
- Investors Scoop Up Companies' Bonds (WSJ)
- Espirito Santo Probe Turns Mariana Mortagua Into Portuguese Star (BBG)
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Fed Now Sees Only 0.2% GDP Growth In Q1Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2015 12:21 -0400
From almost 2.5% GDP growth expectations in February, The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model has now collapsed its estimates of Q1 GDP growth to just 0.2% - plunging from +1.4% just 2 weeks ago. The reality of plunging capex and no decoupling is starting to rear its ugly head in the hard data and as the sun warms things up, weather will start to lose its ability to sway sentiment. While sell-side consensus has dropped (Goldman, Morgan Stanley, and Barclays all cut today following Durable goods), it remains unable to quite accept the reality of massively weaker than expected macro data evident everywhere (except in the soft-survey PMI data).
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Without Buyback Back Up, Futures Fail To Find FizzleSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/25/2015 07:05 -0400
- Barclays
- Bond
- China
- Copper
- Crude
- default
- Equity Markets
- Eurozone
- Fail
- fixed
- France
- Germany
- Gilts
- Greece
- headlines
- Iran
- Jim Reid
- Kraft
- Monetary Policy
- Natural Gas
- New Home Sales
- Nikkei
- Precious Metals
- Price Action
- Private Equity
- RANSquawk
- Reuters
- Richmond Fed
- St Louis Fed
- St. Louis Fed
- Trade Balance
- Ukraine
After three days of unexpected market weakness without an apparent cause, especially since after 7 years of conditioning, the algos have been habituated to buy on both good and bad news, overnight futures are getting weary, and futures are barely up, at least before this morning's transitory FX-driven stop hunt higher. Whether this is due to the previously noted "blackout period" for stock buybacks which started a few days ago and continues until the first week of May is unclear, but should the recent "dramatic" stock weakness persist, expect Bullard to once again flip flop and suggesting it is clearly time to hike rates, as long as the S&P does not drop more than 5%. In that case, QE4 is clearly warranted.
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Frontrunning: March 24Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/24/2015 07:41 -0400
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- Barclays
- Bond
- Capital Markets
- China
- Creditors
- Deutsche Bank
- European Central Bank
- Eurozone
- Exxon
- France
- Greece
- Gross Domestic Product
- Markit
- Mexico
- Morgan Stanley
- New Home Sales
- New York Stock Exchange
- New York Times
- Reuters
- Richmond Fed
- Royal Bank of Scotland
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Sirius XM
- Wells Fargo
- Whiting Petroleum
- Germanwings Airbus crashes in France, 148 feared dead (Reuters)
- Greece promises list of reforms by Monday to unlock cash (Reuters)
- Merkel Points Tsipras Toward Deal With Greece's Creditors (BBG)
- Banks Shift Bond Portfolios -Move to 'held to maturity' category aims to guard against rising rates, shield capital (WSJ)
- Beijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution (BBG)
- As Silence Falls on Chicago Trading Pits, a Working-Class Portal Also Closes (NYT)
- Oil below $56 as Saudi output near record, China activity slows (Reuters)
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