Well I bought some bulbs of 'Sulfur Queen' and also 'Festalis' for dirt cheap. My idea is to self pollinate each to one to get a diversity of F2s. I'd love to get some H. amancaes-y yellow F2s, but this is going to be a few years long experiment. And that's assuming these plants are self fertile. Dennis in Cincinnati On Wed, Jun 8, 2022, 3:59 PM Dennis Kramb <dkramb@gmail.com> wrote: > Is this plant fertile? Photos online show nice fluffy pollen on the > anthers. But I can't find records of it as a parent of any other hybrid on > the market which makes me suspect it's sterile. > > I was wondering if self-pollination could produce 2nd-generation offspring > with more intense yellow coloration like the H. amancaes parent. > > And if it's fertile I'd also like to cross it with the cold-hardy H. > occidentalis (which I have been growing a few years now) to try to develop > a yellowish cold-hardy hybrid. > > I was surprised to find my H. occidentalis was readily self-fertile, so > maybe 'Sulphur Queen' is too? > > Thanks, > Dennis in Cincinnati > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…