New papilio photos

17 years ago

Hi all. I have a few more papilio hybrid photos to share. The first photo I would like to see if anyone can name? I think it is another species?

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The other two photos are first bloom seedlings!!!! They are huge. They bloomed with 4 and 5 flowers!

The 4th photo is Hippeastrum "Robert's Velvet"

The 5th photo is Hippeastrum "whoo whoo" after my grandmothers call to me when I was child.

And the last photo shows the pollen parent and one of the resulting seedlings.

Take care. Orchidboy

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raydio
17 years ago
The first one could be H. puniceum, a species, or one of the sterile hybrids from it. They are hard to tell apart just by sight. If you can get good seed set by pollinating it with pollen from other bulbs of the same kind, that points to it being a form of puniceum.

Nice bunch of crosses!

R.
houstonpat
17 years ago
Bravo! Well done! How long from seed to bloom. Are these greenhouse grown, what type of substrate, what types of fertilzers?
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orchidboy01
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Hay Houstonpat. I planted the seed three years ago. And they were greenhouse grown with a soiless mix. And fed with a soybean based fertalizer. I'm sure the growth of these was quicker than normal. My plants at home were slower to bloom and tended to have slightly smaller flowers. The rest of the batch is living happily at Disney's Animal Kingdom, planted out in beds and happily blooming. I am happy so far they have turned out to be repeat bloomers. Four and five times so far. spaced out about one to two weeks apart. I'm guessing it is from the evergreen Bolivian red parent. It was neat to see the flowers improve with the second flowering. Take care. Orchidboy
soultan
17 years ago
Wow. You are supplying amaryllis to Disney's Animal Kingdom?
orchidboy01
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17 years ago
Hi all. Not really. since the pollen plant belongs to Disney they get to keep half the plants. Most are now planted out in the landscape. And the good ones are keept as stock plants in the grenhouse. I'm waiting to see if they will bloom a sixth time? The one I named after my wife is blooming again for the second time, But took four weeks to spike again. Looking forward to seeing it again. Should be a better bloom. Orchidboy
soultan
17 years ago
Cool. You can have fun with their flowers... You are lucky.

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