PapDon1 (H.papilio x 'Donau')
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Comments (22)Good Morning Hans-Werner! Ahhhh, more beautiful babies! Those 2 seedlings appear to be the start of a new and very promising line :) I can comiserate with you on the low production/viability of seeds from this type of cross. Pink Floyd X Appleblossom gave me 3 good seedlings, Ruby Meyer X White Christmas gave 2 and Minerva X Emerald, well 2 germinated weakly but died within a few weeks. I will try it again this season with more mature bulbs. Lora...See MoreHippeastrum papilio x ('Donau' x 'Ambiance')
Comments (8)Thank you, Bergit (But where are you) I am glad to say that at least the self pollination of the latter hybrid - this one 4th sibling - was successfull - although I experienced a very low germination rate from these seeds which were so numerously produced (2 seed pods which contained 120 seeds each). Interestingly the 5 plants of this grex refused to form any new leaves during this German "summer" and they caught up fpr that at the windowsill later - and in a very nice manner, emerging 5 to 6 fresh leaves simultaneously: href> # clickable th_ (as above) Hans-Werner...See MoreH.aulicum v.robustum x H.papilio
Comments (7)Hello Gerard: Thank you for your suggestion. As you already guessed I have knowledge of the subjct of pollen and anther storage, respectively. But - I do not practise that and - I do NOT know the final, profound reason why I hesitate to. I can explain this to you only by a practical reason: Like you I do not have a garden, just some square meters of area on the balcony. Each crossing I do NOT perform is a better crossing because I am close to a catastrophy of area need. However, I have installed my amaryllogene kindergardens indoors and this costs me a lot of money for artificial lighting (fluirescent tubes for younger seedlings and metal halide high pressure discharge lamps fore the bigger ones. So I perform crossbreedings follwing the opportunity and... my intuition. For example - an offset from the mother plant of H.aulicum v.robustum is emitting a scape just now. AND: I already KNOW that I SHALL visit the local greens- and flower market to buy an expensive giant cut flower of this black red velvety hybrid I do not know ther name of simply to use its pollen on my species amaryllis! (It is NOT "Royal Velvet") This way numerous of my crossbreedings are particular events dictated by contingency or should I be saying simply fortunate coincidence?! The most lucky hazard I remember was the simultaneous blooming of one of my H.papilio and - of my first seedling of "Donau" x "Ambiance" href> which later proved to be the very best of the entire grex of 12 seedlings. And on the spur of the moment I used it to pollinate H. papilio. The blooms which I obtained from 5 surviving good seedling (4 have bloomed until now) are simply uncomparable to anything, even if they resemble remarkably to the species crossing result I introduced in this thread. And guess - the Ambiance pollen from which this breeding history was initiated was from a cut flower, too, which I purchased, outdoors, on an ice cold winter day - and I pollinated my "Donau" with it - just to see if the fresh, undried pollen HAD survived a day with temperatures close to 0°C! Hans-Werner...See MoreHippeastrum papilio photos
Comments (32)Although I could to a certain degree predict the unfortunate outcome of these crossbreeding experiments I am so sorrowfull with you. As far as I can see is crossbreeding H.papilio with these "old" hard-core-bargain big blooming hybrids simply impossible. It was for example my major amaryllogene wish dream to perform the cross between H.papilio and Appleblossom. I have given that up now. H.papilio x LemonLime will work The results displayed in this great website from Taiwan was veritably convincing; WUFhref> BUT: Using inferior green amaryllis like Yellow Pioneer and Yellow Goddess will work to, but yield far inferior results. And I would try to supply pollen from DONAU (Danube) when H.papilio is close to bloom. However, I do not have the slightest intuition what makes these both mentioned 4ploid knight star lilies so particular that their pollen is working effectively on H.papilio. However, IF you receive a mountain of chaff - DO NOT discard it before you dids not investigate seed-for-seed, thoroughly, for any may-be-viable embryo... Hans-Werner...See More- 12 years ago
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