I have had a lot of success crossing Hippeastrums and getting seed. I plant the seeds barely covered and have high germination rates. For the first two or three years I keep the seedlings growing and don't let them go dormant. The main thing for me is waiting for the first blooms. I have a Hippeastrum x Hippeastrelia cross that after 9 years had it's first bloom in May then bloomed again in September with no special treatment. I have quite a few seedlings that I'm still waiting on that first bloom. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 9:52, Robert Pries<robertpries@embarqmail.com> wrote: I am interested in crossing and getting seeds from Hippeastrum. I had Hippeastrums in bloom from January , February, March and April last year mostly in the house but some were set outside in April. Even though I enjoyed lots of blooms and tried making all sorts of crosses, out of about fifty crosses only one took and that was at the very end of the season. Are modern Hippeastrums relatively sterile? Is there anything I can do to improve my results? I am especially interested in the new dwarfer hippeastrums, Cybister hipps’ , and Papilio, not so much the huge flowered ones and definitely not the double varieties, although I do acknowledge they are beautiful. Bob Pries Zone 7a Roxboro, NC (336)597-8805 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…