Ken wrote: >> it appears that the pedicels of flowers VERY successfully fertilized, ie, the capsules are?bulging with?MANY seeds, elongate the most Nice observation, Ken. Yes, I have seen the same things with my Amaryllis crosses. If you cross a flower with something that it really doesn't like, not only will the pedicel fail to elongate, but the plant will reabsorb the capsule, leaving a short flat pedicel with nothing at the end. It's as if the plant is saying, "that pollen was disgusting and I refuse to even pretend that I would set seed with it." This is what usually happens when I cross a Nerine sarniensis selection onto an Amaryllis. By the way, some of my Amaryllis selections seem to elongate more than others. A couple of them elongate a lot. This doesn't seem to correspond exactly to flower size, although it's probably fair to say that on average bigger flowers tend to elongate more. Also, flower heads that are one-sided when in bloom (the flowers all point in one direction) sometimes become more radial as the pedicels elongate. I have not seen elongation with the other amaryllids that have bloomed for me -- Nerines and Haemanthus. Mike San Jose, CA