Bob,
It will interesting to see what you get flower wise from that cross I
wonder how long until it flowers do you think?
Plus I wonder the type of variability you will see in the flowers. Sounds
like a great effort.
Mike San Diego April Showers are just nice... hoping for more.
On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 10:39 AM Robert Lauf via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
> There's a second bud on the stem. I have self-pollinated the first bloom
> and - don't tell anyone this - I might have a bloom starting to develop on
> a blue Griffinia espiritensis that came in the same shipment. I hope to
> cross the two, even if it means storing pollen from the Eithea while the
> Griffinia grows up. It could be a sly way to get blue pigment into
> otherwise pink amaryllids.
> Now that I know how easy it is to do embryo rescue, my horizons have
> expanded immensely. You can buy premade tubes of the culture medium for
> about $3 a pop, so all that's left is contamination control.
> My cross of the pregnant onion w a dark blue squill has yielded a shitload
> of viable seeds. No rescue needed.... These crosses have me really
> excited!
> :{-
> On Friday, April 23, 2021, 01:27:33 PM EDT, Mike via pbs <
> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
>
> Bob,
>
> That’s a really nice bloom, is that typical for the species or can you
> expect multiple blooms per stem ?
>
> Always cool when out of the blue a bloom pops up out of nowhere.
>
> Mike
> San Diego-land of a gentle overnight rain.
>
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 9:19 AM Robert Lauf via pbs <
> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
>
> > I recently got a nice starter collection of Amaryllid species from Telos,
> > among which was "Hippeastrum blumenavium", which came with the caveat
> that
> > the bulbs are small. No kidding, compared to large Hippeastrum species
> and
> > hybrids. But it almost immediately put up a bloom (attached) and a
> > delightful thing it is!
> > As with many of the plants we grow, this fine creature has taken the
> > scenic tour of Taxonomy Hell, being placed in Griffinia, then
> Hippeastrum,
> > and now Eithea (at least according to the PBS wiki). Despite all the
> "You
> > say to-MAY-to, I say to-MAH-to", it's a great little plant and I hope to
> > work it into my breeding program. If anyone has done any hybridization
> > with this thing, I'd love to know about it.
> > Bob Zone 7, officially 31 in town for a few hours last night, probably
> > a few degrees warmer up here on the ridge
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