Haemanthus seed harvest
James SHIELDS (Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:47:24 PDT)

Michael, I have had Haemanthus humilis humilis, H. montanus, and H. carneus
blooming together on my deck every summer for years. I have never seen any
evidence that montanus would cross with these. However, since a plant of
"carneus" I got as a seed from Doug Westfall of Long Beach, California, now
appears to be a hybrid, I am much more leary of the "genetic purity" of all
the humilis humilis seeds my plant generate every summer.

For images, see:

https://facebook.com/groups/bulborum/…

and search for Haemanthus, or see:

http://srgc.net/forum/index.php/…

Jim

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 4:29 PM Michael Homick <michaelhomick@gmail.com>
wrote:

<http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…>I have
started to harvest some Haemanthus seed. I had Haemanthus carneus,
Haemanthus montanus and Haemanthus humilis subsp. humilis ‘Giant form'.

I

crossed the 'Giant form on the montanus and carneus as well as the

reverse

crosses. I also had two extra Haemanthus humilis subsp. humilis ‘Giant’
flowers that I selfed. I have an image of the seed posted at this link:
http://gpbotanicals.com/wp/wp-content/…

I removed pollen from the 'Giant form and the montanus prior to flowering
but the carneus anthers were very small and deeply embedded in with the
pistils of the flowers to adequately and safely remove.
All the best Michael
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