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Sv.: Re: Eithea blumenavia
Anders Bo Petersen via pbs (Fri, 23 Apr 2021 12:23:38 PDT)

I would like to swap bulbs, as you need 2 different clones to success pollinating. Anders, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Den fredag, april 23, 2021, 19:38 skrev Robert Lauf via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>:

There's a second bud on the stem. I have self-pollinated the first bloom and - don't tell anyone this - I might have a bloom starting to develop on a blue Griffinia espiritensis that came in the same shipment. I hope to cross the two, even if it means storing pollen from the Eithea while the Griffinia grows up. It could be a sly way to get blue pigment into otherwise pink amaryllids.
Now that I know how easy it is to do embryo rescue, my horizons have expanded immensely. You can buy premade tubes of the culture medium for about $3 a pop, so all that's left is contamination control.
My cross of the pregnant onion w a dark blue squill has yielded a shitload of viable seeds. No rescue needed.... These crosses have me really excited!
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On Friday, April 23, 2021, 01:27:33 PM EDT, Mike via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

Bob,

That’s a really nice bloom, is that typical for the species or can you
expect multiple blooms per stem ?

Always cool when out of the blue a bloom pops up out of nowhere.

Mike
San Diego-land of a gentle overnight rain.

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 9:19 AM Robert Lauf via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

I recently got a nice starter collection of Amaryllid species from Telos,
among which was "Hippeastrum blumenavium", which came with the caveat that
the bulbs are small. No kidding, compared to large Hippeastrum species and
hybrids. But it almost immediately put up a bloom (attached) and a
delightful thing it is!
As with many of the plants we grow, this fine creature has taken the
scenic tour of Taxonomy Hell, being placed in Griffinia, then Hippeastrum,
and now Eithea (at least according to the PBS wiki). Despite all the "You
say to-MAY-to, I say to-MAH-to", it's a great little plant and I hope to
work it into my breeding program. If anyone has done any hybridization
with this thing, I'd love to know about it.
Bob Zone 7, officially 31 in town for a few hours last night, probably
a few degrees warmer up here on the ridge
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