Thanks Lee, the Andy link failed. Ever get seeds from your Yume Mitai? Karl On Jun 13, 2013 8:50 PM, "Lee Poulsen" <wpoulsen@pacbell.net> wrote: > I have a Yume Mitai, but it doesn't have any offsets. I got it from > Komoriya, exported to me by a Japanese friend of mine a few years ago. I > love it. But last year or the year before, Komoriya started selling many of > his hybrids on a Japanese analog of eBay, and this year he now sells on > eBay directly, although very expensively (however, phyto is included). < > http://ebay.com/sch/m.html/…> > I just checked and although it is now out of season for his Hippeastrums, > he is now offering a bunch of his Lachenalia hybrids. I've heard of them > before but never seen any photos. Many of them are spectacular. I've never > seen any Lachenalias like these before. They're pricey, but not nearly as > much as his Hippeastrums are. > > On another related note, Andy Houghton (don't know if he's on PBS) somehow > managed to produce an exact duplicate of Yume Mitai via his own breeding > efforts. He's sure it's not an accident. He crossed H. papilio with H. 'San > Miguel'. < > https://facebook.com/photo.php/… > > > > --Lee Poulsen > Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a > Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m > > On Jun 13, 2013, at 11:57 AM, Karl Church wrote: > > > Diana, great advise-thanks. By the way, do you know of anyone who might > > have either seeds or bulbs of H. "Opal Star" or H. "Yume Mitai" that they > > would sell, trade, or share? > > Karl Church > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >