Pretty bright red!!

Nice clear white flower!

Here are two of the three Amadeus blooming for the first time.

First Amadeus which is huge and gorgeous with a short scape (as advertised). I like that two of the four flowers bloomat the same time rather than all four. It also has pollen hmmmm

Striped Amadeus follows with a flower that resembles a Spotlight-Blossom Peacock . It is smaller than Amadeus.

Waiting for the flower on Giant Amadeus to open, but can't imagine it to be bigger than Amadeus. -j

Both very pretty, but the second one is my favorite, love the red picotee!

Donna, here is the first flowers of a sibling criss. The first one has the picotee you like ans I suspect the second one will give away the selfing parent lol

-J

I don't know......☺☺ Not from seeds I sent you???

Kormoriya red flash. These were the first singles the rest were doubles. - J

OK, I just purchased one but they haven't sent it yet....

Also the picotee is very fragrant.

Oh that's special! Do you remember if Red Flash itself was fragrant?

It is not. Strange :) i crossed them with each other on one flower but I'm thinking I should try to self them. What do you think.

Also the picture of the red flas on their site diesn't look like the one I have. This is the one I have

What do you think.

I still think there's a good possibility you've got something else there but I could be wrong. I wonder if anyone else on the forum had bloomed a Red Flash? When I search, yours is the only one that comes up!

Hi Jody,

I really like your 'Red Flash.' Since your beautiful photo doesn't match Komoriya's, I'm puzzled by its identity. I've been looking at Komoriya's photos of striped red doubles and trying to determine if yours looks more like 'Jyunihitoe' (which I already grow) or 'Dream Flamenco.' None of the possibilities are an exact match, but I think that 'Jyunihitoe' may be closest.

Does anyone have any comments or insights? I don't need another 'Jyunihitoe.' Here are photos from the Komoriya store for comparison.

Many thanks!

Red Flash

Jyunihitoe

Dream Flamenco

Hi Blanca,

I too thought that Jody's flower was Jyunhitoe, I think you're right. I vaguely mentioned it in this thread... http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/4466812/spring-flowering-starts

Dream Flamenco looks too orange but as we know, their pictures aren't always accurate. I did finally purchase my irst Jyunhitoe last autumn and recently had to try the Red Flash hoping, (but not really expecting ) that mine would look like Jody's. Jody says hers is very prolific, growing well in her garden and making offsets!! She got a good mislabel and with a little luck my real Red Flash will bloom and we can finally compare!!

Donna

I agree, it definitely looks like Jyunhitoe. In fact, I'm going to re-tag them. Thanks all! - J

Thank you Donna and Jody. It will be interesting to see the flowers produced by the bulbs Donna and Beatrice recently purchased from Komoriya.

My first Orange Sovereign. This was a jumbo bulb i bought on ebay. It sent 2 scapes up at one and has given me 9 full blooms to enjoy. Hoping to get a bunch of "selfed" seeds off of it.

What a gorgeous and rich color!! Wishing you success with your selfing and looking foward to seeing them in a few short years.

It's lovely, and don't worry, you'll get more seeds than you can imagine. Selfing an Orange Sovereign was my first attempt at pollinations and the size of the pods looked like small green peppers!! Orange Sovereign made offsets like crazy for me and in no time I had a pot full of bulbs that all sent up their scapes together. It was a sight to behold!! It's such a beautiful clear orange....

Hi Debra and Stephen,

Thanks for the beautiful blooms...they are much needed for a spring that won't spring :-)))

Fred

About 4 years ago, I self-pollinated a plain red amaryllis, and finally had 2 seedlings bloom this year. There's a wee bit of visual variety even with self-pollination. Those flower 'spurs' below I'm particularly thrilled about! Both flowers on that plant have them. :-D Would love to know why it did that thing.

The second one's plainer, but brighter.

nmuska, You pollinated a plain red and got those centers?! Wow! Your spurs certainly are interesting!

Debra, You've got lots of beautiful blooms there, hope some last for you for Easter!! I particularly like your Dancing Queen and Opal Star and I haven't seen a Rosetta for ages!!

Donna

Back to Red Flash; I received my Komoriya order today and you might know the smallest bulb was the Red Flash by a landslide!! It will be a long while before this one blooms.....the others were all a decent size but I fear the Green & Saturns had already bloomed.....so we'll have to wait on Bea's bulb to hopefully bloom.

Hi Donna,

Good score!!!!! One if the Green and Saturn is HUGE!!!!

Fred

dondeldux - I tried to dig up the photo of the parent plant, and came up empty.. Am recalling it as being a solid red we got at Lowes in 2012, but it's entirely possible that it did have a yellowish center and I'm just mis-remembering. Was looking today, and looks like the third of the seedling bulbs is sending out a flower spike. Hopefully there'll be something interesting to post later in the month. :-)

Part of me wants to self-pollinate the spurred flower just to see if the trait could be amplified, but another part of me doesn't want to wait another 4+ years and deal with 234092834923 amaryllis seedlings in the meanwhile. (Gave away over 50 of the buggers from previous batch, to narrow it down to the 8 large ones remaining. And that's not counting the pot outside, where a dozen or so apparently overwintered in Virginia with no problem.)