My current homemade Favorites
I have been quite lazy for a while, there is several pictures in the queue.
My current favorites are two siblings of "PapDonAmb2" x "PapDon1"
Both have revealed their capability of producing the Hippeastrum-"typical" -
the "4-corner" umbel - this season, for the first time.
This sibling has some inclination of producing daughter bulbs, and the oldest thereof produced its first bloom:
A third sibling which I kept BUT for the unusual shape of its Bloom - it produces 2 florets per scape only, is on the left side of the following Picture:
I feel blessed by these accomplishments. Unfortunately, the two 4-corner siblings are behaving like TRIploids - they are yet to produce any seed. Whereas the third sibling is fertile and is behaving like a DIPloid on this occasion.
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6 years agoIt is fair to say, that quite a lot of visitors will be unfamiliar with the history of the very Knight Star lilies as shown above, and I also have kept in my mind, that a certain Image Hoster, the Name of which I will conceal here, did take all Images hostage by asking for dear Money, then. In other words they destroyed all part of my documentation based on linking hosted image files - so I will recapitulize a bit in this thread.
The mother of the 3 siblings is, as indicated by the left side of the formula above, a certain, ominous "PapDonAmb2", the last pics of which are
haweha
6 years ago
in 2015
This last pic is of 2012 or so.
The "crispy" pic above it shows the maiden Bloom of the seedling bulb.haweha
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoI found earlier Pictures of the 3 siblings, which were effectively deleted by the Image Hosting agency. Here they are!
Maiden Bloom of #1, and of #3 in the Background.
#2, the sibling with the daughter bulb in first Bloom.
The appearance is conspicuously different (forced indoors) as compared to this year's Performance (forced on my balcony)
#3 the shape of the Bloom influenced by some balloning effect - the tips of the floral Segments stuck together during the opening of the floret.haweha
6 years agoThe following pictures show the "father" the pollen donor that means, "PapDon1" which means/is
H.papilio x "Donau"
haweha
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