Hippeastrum reticulatum Mrs. Garfield. It's was brought from Thailand in 2013. bloomed twice in 2014, in 2015 - a rest.

Elena, very beautiful. I have Autumn Rose Lady to bloom soon.

Reticulatum group is wonderful.

Hi Stephen, I may have some seeds of Flamenco Queen x Rembrandt van Rijn in a few weeks Of course these wouldn't be selfs which is probably what you might want but if I have enough and the seedpod gives me enough seeds to share I might be able to send you a few.

Elena, your Mrs. Garfield is gorgeous!! And to think that I had one given to me by someone who is longer on the forum and after a year or two it died!! I was heartbroken!! But the line on mine was more to the cream side rather than as white as yours appears. I didn't have it long enough for it to bloom.

I also had a large pot of reticulatum var stratifolium that I lost to an infestation of mealy bugs. That too never bloomed but I so enjoyed the leaves. Maybe sometime I'll try them again.

I do have 3 Autumn Pink Ladies, two I've had for a few years and I just bought another. I seem to have better luck with the Pink Ladies rather than September Rose Line which I've had for 3 years and each year it just gets smaller and smaller! I never was able to snatch an Autumn Rose Lady, but they're all gorgeous!!

Love your photos!!

Donna

Pavel, Donna thank you ! While this bulb with me I hope to get from her offspring from crosses, but previous attempts have been unsuccessful. Apparently Mrs. Garfield capricious lady))

Autumn Pink Ladie should be more accommodating))

Best wishes,

Elena.

Donna, thank you for gifting me seeds! They arrived last week and I forgot to thank you! Ray (Maida), you were a contributor also! Thank you both!!!

Donna,

i got the envelope from you today!

thanks so much!

A few of the BRIGHT red/white H. Gordie selfs x H. Papilio are rooting in water. Nice strong green roots with fat bulblets. A good sign. They will be PAMPERED!!

I just transferred the germinated seeds to clean water. There are well over a dozen with roots and 3 with leaves. I think they should be a nice bloom (we always have in our head what the results should look like!).

Meanwhile, I have 5 thriving seedlings from H. Moscow (big flat white) x H. Aulicum.

Congrats Kristi! Moscow X aulicum sounds interesting and of course your Gordie is gorgeous. I'm sure it will even be more gorgeous crossed with papilio.

Louana

Is there anybody who knows whether "Santiago" is a TETraploid? I pollinated 6 flowers of it, from "Appleblossom" and now I am staring in awe while the seed pods are growing, and one flower that I dusted with "Charisma" has taken, too, whereas the ovary of the flower, that I placed the pollen of "Ambiance" on, is shrinking - well, I "almost" expected that, since I had never had any success with its pollen.

Congratulations Kristi! The beautiful Gordie self x Papilio sounds really promising! Godd luck with those seedlings! May I ask what this years Gordie self seedpods are doing? You mentioned that you might have some seeds to share...

@Haweha: I don't know what ploidy Santiago has but I tried Papilio, Rosario, Emerald and a self on it and everything failed. I got a tiny seedpod x H554 but without any viable seeds. I tried its pollen on H554 (pod is still growing and looking good), on Rebecca (pod shrinked after a few weeks) and on a huge pink mislabel (maybe Lagoon or Pink Surprise) that failed too. Does this information help? Fingers crossed for your crosses!

I have glasses with floating seeds everywhere and many more between paper towels... Many Emerald x Papilio seedlings and only one Emerald x Lemon & Lime are already growing nicely :-)

I may have some seeds to share of several crosses but I want to be sure whether they are germinating or not. I'll post a list later...

Anja

Anja, I should be able to send seeds out this week. Please MESSAGE ME to make sure I have your address correct. I think (if you contacted me previously) I have it, but the addresses are at home and I am at the office.

Kristi

>>>...and a self on it...<<<

Hello Anja, was this "self" most likely a TETraploid? Which would be the most valuable information for me!

I still have quite a lot of seeds already dried of my efforts at the best dark red singles. If anyone would like some, just let me know and I'll drop them in the mail.

Haweha, I wanted to say that I tried to self it and that failed. Sorry...

OMG LOL! thank you for your explanation. It actually helps: So, Santiago is probably not a TET. Bcz TETs are mostly self fertile.

@ Haweha: I have made the
same experience than Anja. I dusted 4 flowers of Santiago with
Papilio, 2 with Terra Cotta, 2 with Revelation, 2 with Spotlight and
2 with it self. Nothing grow, except one capsule from Revelation and
one from Spotlight. Than after 4-5 weeks they withered too. The
capsules were empty, except very few small seeds who didn't
germinate.

Nevertheless I wish you
luck with your seeds. Maybe you will have more success with yours.

@ Kristi: Nice to read
about your Gordie x selfself seeds being mature. Maybe you can put
some more seeds into the envelop for Anja, ...and than @ Anja, you
can send some to me..? Just assuming...

My "Santiago" did not produce seed pods in its first season, as a freshly planted bulb. The seed pods which are right now growing look very promising, but the seeds within might all be as useless as it was the case when I pollinated H.papilio from "Appleblossom".

As regards "Appleblossom" I had one bulb bloom outdoors, and there is 4 seed pods growing from a pollination from "Flamenco Queen" - they are already far too big than to abort. I am amazed!

@Haweha: My Santiago was a new bulb without leaves, so maybe that was the problem. But the only bulb that accepted Santiagos pollen was H554. Good luck with your crosses! Please keep us posted!

My Rebecca seemed to accept all pollen I tried, including Papilio and some cybisters. The pods had the right size and shape and I thought they just have to ripen but now it looks as if all are withering. The bulb started to grow leaves now, could this be the reason?

@ Kristi and Peridot: Of course I would do this :-)

Anja

Just came back from a 2 week family vacation in Florida and my seedpods have ripen, some cracked open and seeds are safe. Yayyy!

Congratulations! I really like your picture!

Anja

Hans-Werner,

Congratulations on your (pending) ) success with Apple Blossom as the seed parent!!

This happened for me too just once, about 3 years ago. My cross was Apple Blossom x Exotica and I got many good seeds. I was able to grow about 15 of these and when they were old enough I planted them in a long trough and put them outside for the summer.

Big mistake!! The narcissis bulb fly destroyed all but one which I still have (not a vigorous one though) . Hard lesson learned. These were the days before I knew enough to use systemic control. Perhaps it wouldn't have worked anyway as these bulbs were so small I probably should not have put them outside.

The best of luck to you with yours....

Maria, hope you enjoyed your vacation and what a nice surprise to come home to!! I too just love that picture!!!

Donna

I think they have already "made it"

seedpods on "Appleblossom" outdoors, pollinated from "Flamenco Queen"

one seed pod after self pollination of my 2nd specimen, indoors

My "Santiago" at the kitchen's windowsill before the production of seed pods...

images thereof YET TO COME.

"Good flowers" - a while ago. 7 scapes from an original bulb of "Fairy Tale" surrounded by daughter bulbs.

Only one seed pod on reticulum mrs. Garfield . I Keep my fingers crossed ....

What was the pollen donor for "Mrs.Garfield"?

The donor was my seedling, it has no name just a number. Other options that I tried didn't work. Here is a photo of the donor.

Thank you for your prompt feedback. That should most likely mean "DIP pollinated from TET" in other words, the seed pod will (most likely) reveal numerous seeds with distorted embryos in them, BESIDES some "regular" seed with an embryo, which has the shape of a sunflower seed grain. Now, IN order to distinguish these nonambiguously, you will have to inspect the fresh seed foils BEFORE these will even dry up. Please do not forget to take a picture of the whole bulk of seeds, if not also of the selected seed foils, so we can estimate their quality (viability). Best wishes for GOOD LUCK are coming to you from GERMANY.

Thank you for the clarification Hans. I'm very interested to see what's inside))I Be sure to share the photo, remains only to wait for maturation seeds pod .

Incidentally pollen Mrs.Garfield also I used at the other seedling, grow seeds pods is, but now it is too early .

Best wishes,

Elena.

I have some seeds from Vera as mummy and the pollen donor is in the attach picture (from my friend) which seems to be hybrid from Emmanuelle.

I hope the children will have the yellow throat like the daddy :)

The chances of getting at least a few seeds are in limbo.

Literally, the arrow below rotten and

I had her cut and hung upside down.

I am new to this forum. I just got the seeds from my first pollinisation attempt: picotee x self and picotee (pod) x Flamenco Queen (pollen). I am in France.

I have more seeds than I will be able to grow so I am eager to give or exchange most of them.

for instance, Hawena, would you consider to exchange some of your Appleblossom x Flamenco with some of my seeds?

Pod parent picotee

Diane Blanchard,

Picotee x Flamenco Qeen it`s good cross, from him will be a lot of speckled seedlings.

Hello everyone! Seedpod Mrs.Garfield is cracked. I received full 5 seed and a little debris. Seeds differ from seed Hippeastrum. They are filled with, like the sunflower seeds in a thin peel.Now i need to check their germination.

PS

5 seeds!!! As if bought a half portion seeds on the Ebay))

These 5 look good to me. Thank you for showing this!!!

As regards my seeds of "Appleblossom" pollinated from "Flamenco Queen" they are quite not looking as good. The seed foils in the drying yet very incompletely-split seed pods (indicating an abnormal termination!) are still almost white. There is definitely something very "wrong" with "Appleblossom" as a seed producer. Pictures and further updates are yet to come.

I have tried and failed several times to get seeds from Apple Blossom. However, the pollen from AB does pollinate other apple-blossom like varieties like San Remo - here is one of the San Remo x AB crosses flowering this year

H.Roseum in my garden, first day.

PS.

Unfortunately Mrs.Garfield seeds were not viable ((

and now...

How beautiful :-)))))

Yes, I agree, soft and beautiful....☺

Thank you)) I like it too. :)

Oh Elena,

What a beautiful blossom :-))) You must be very happy...I would be!!!

Fred

Thank you, Fred. Yes, I'm happy)) I really like my Hippeastrum bloom in summer .... and the warm pink ...I a little upset that there was no pestle :))

Best wishes,

Elena.

Elena,

Your Pink Nymph is beautiful and really pretty color!! I bought one several years and it was a mislabel, I don't remember what but I was hoping for what you got!

Donna

Hi Donna! My Pink Nymph was also re-grading)) I can not remember what to I bought in the same year, but I got a good option :))

Best wishes,

Elena.