Hippeastrum 'Pink Floyd'
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Comments (30)It was Freddie Mercury......but I know what you mean. Those outfits in the 80's were not flattering to anyone. Those great big shoulder pads for women and those puffy pants on men. Yuk. Saturday in the Park was "Chicago". What a great band. They had so many hits! Yeah Harry.... Green Grass and High Tides forever. But my fav. Outlaws song is "Prisoner". The band I play with and do sound for performs that song and they do it just like the Outlaws did. Wonderful to be right in the middle of all that music. We are playing tomorrow night for a wedding reception. Should be a fun party. I just downloaded Michael McDonald's album "No Lookin' Back" from iTunes. After my husband died in 1987 I listened to it over and over. I used a song from it "Our Love" for my wedding to my current DH. Its so nice to listen to it again. Kathy...See MorePink Floyd X Emerald # 2
Comments (14)As a veteran dog breeder, I'm no stranger to culling... it's an important part of a breeding program and must be done to keep the genetic pool clean and strong. Though it sounds like a cruel practice, it has to be understood that it's the responsible thing to do when we change the natural reproductive selection process. In essence, we're playing God... and it's only right that we do it properly. Nature culls... we must, also. Culling plants will be a lot easier, and even compost plays an important role in the gardening process... at present, I'm only sprouting a dozen or so seeds at a time, and I'm doing this because space is at a premium! I need to re-think and re-vamp my indoor gardening areas. This first year of collecting parent bulbs and watching them bloom, and then pollinating and harvesting seed, has been mainly a learning experience for me... I'm still very much a novice when it comes to Hippeastrums! I had originally intended to keep very detailed records and begin a breed file, but I must admit that I got lost in all the wonder and beauty of my bulbs, and was very lax in my record-keeping! Next bloom season will be the beginning of much better discipline in the record-keeping department, and I'll actually start crossing with a goal in mind! I haven't thought particularly hard about what end result I'd like to pursue, but I have all summer to lay out a plan for next year. Being such a novice of flower breeding, I still have a lot to learn... before I began participating in this forum on a regular basis, I didn't even know it was so easy to breed flowers! I just found out recently what actually happens when a speck of pollen lands in exactly the right spot at exactly the right time! I didn't know that it grows an extension, cell by cell, until it reaches the ovary and penetrates the embryo sac of an ovule! And I didn't know that once the two cells, that of the pollen and the ovule, come together and form one cell that then divides to form what will be seeds, it's called a zygote! It's all so amazing! So, in short, culling won't be a problem... once I figure out what the direction I take will be. I had terrible results breeding my cybisters, and most of this years seed is just hybrid variety self-pollinated seed. It gives me something to test out my growing set-up with, so next year I'll be prepared. Lora, your crosses sound awesome, and I can certainly understand how it can be hard to choose keepers out of a batch of those seedlings! That would probably trip me up a bit, too... finally getting seed from a difficult cross you really wanted to work out, and then not having enough room to keep all the babies! Jackie, I don't know for certain, but I would think breeding hippis is no different than breeding daylilies or iris... you really have to give the plants more than one season in order to get accurate evaluations... in dog breeding, we can only get accurate evaluations from mature animals, and that can take a few years! I would think plants need to reach maturity in order to really perform as they will for the long haul... In any case... breeding anything takes a certain level of objectivity and responsibility in order to keep that species genetically solid. It also takes patience!...See MorePink Floyd problems
Comments (8)Thanks to all you experts on your input. Kristi- I like your idea to relook at basal plate. I used the heat mat in the past after hearing PF liked heat, but am not using it currently, I usually just use for germinating seeds not seedlings (of all types). I tried keeping PF indoors just until outdoor temps were >70, silly to you guys maybe, we get very warm temps here but not consistantly. Donna I recall many have had probs with PF but if the grower could sustain to blooming I wish they would sounds like many have similar probs, bummer. Blanca, you are fortunate to still grow PF, I'd love to hear if you do anything special to keep them alive. I do have many PFx papillio that grow and bloom and a few PFx exotic star. They are cool but don't have so much the trumpet look. Some of the PFxpap do have light light fragrence tho. Again thanks to all of you with so much knowledge, it is so appreciated....See Morewhy does my post keep gettign deleted ???
Comments (0)Im trying to find a supplier in the UK of some Hippeastrum Pink Floyds but everytime i post a message it gets deleted by someone on here!!!...See More
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