Great, Joe! Thanks in advance. Best regards and thanks to you and Marcelle, Dell -----Original Message----- From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of samclan Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:54 AM To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: Re: [pbs] Crinum seeds, Jumbos I hope Marcelle's recovery continues rapidly and uneventfully and that I am at my computer when the Jumbo's seeds come to the PBX. Shirley Meneice ----- Original Message ----- From: <ConroeJoe@aol.com> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:59 PM Subject: [pbs] Crinum seeds, Jumbos Hi Gang, I'm happy to report that Marcelle Sheppard has provided a very large amount of hybrid Crinum seed that I will send to the PBX. I visited with Marcelle Sheppard last weekend, and while she has a bumper crop of seeds from many C. bulbispermum-Jumbo-type plants, she was unable to sort them or categorize them by "color of the seed parent," etc. However, she's been recovering well enough from her accident last year and has been out in the garden with a helper. She did collect seeds from outstanding parents and set those aside, and she discarded seeds from plants that have not proven to provide good seedlings. All of the seeds are open pollinated; thus, most will have Jumbos as other parents but a few could perhaps have other parentage as well. At this stage in their evolution the Jumbos can throw off anything from dark, solid, rose-pink flowers, to flowers that are nearly white or all-white. Some are charmingly like C. x herbertii and others are dark striped on pink. If you get these seeds you'll just have to grow them out to see what is what. Many have blue-green foliage, but some come up with shiny green leaves. Marcelle provided a lot of seed. LINK: C. bulbispermum Jumbos http://crinum.iconx.com/html/… Cordially, Joe _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php -- ---------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 499 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try http://www.spamfighter.com/ for free now! _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php