I would like to unsubscribe from this website. thank you -----Original Message----- From: Sent: Oct 20, 2021 8:00 AM To: Subject: pbs Digest, Vol 56, Issue 21 Send pbs mailing list submissions to pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to pbs -request@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net You can reach the person managing the list at pbs-owner@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of pbs digest..." List-Post: To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: [pbs] Fwd: PBS website contact:///aulicum/ Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed This inquiry came via the PBS website. If you can help,. please write directly to Jano in South Africa. Thanks! -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: PBS website contact:///aulicum/ Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 05:17:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Apache Reply-To: jano van reenen To: janemcgary@earthlink.net This is a message from the PBS website for janemcgary. Good day.i am looking at getting a Aulicum and I am not 100% sure on the potting mix.I stay in South africa and i need to make sure that I have the right mix seeing that it is a mission getting the nice Hippeastrums to us.I dont whant to loose it Thanks Jano -- Pacific Bulb Society web site email:///website@pacificbulbsociety.org ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 20:40:50 -0700 From: To: Subject: [pbs] New Moraea hybrids, 2021 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, gang. For about a decade I've been breeding Moraea hybrids. If you'd like to see my favorite new flowers from spring 2021, there's a post on my blog here: https://growingcoolplants.blogspot.com/2021/10/… There are some nice magenta and orange flowers, some with veins and spots, and some flowers with intriguing multicolored eyes. I'm still trying and failing to breed a truly red flower, but there are some nice brick-colored ones. I think it's amazing how much genetic variety there is in this genus. So far I've been able to cross about 15 species in subgenus Vieusseuxia, which includes the "Peacock" Moraea flowers. This year I had the first flowers from hybrids with M. debilis, a tiny blue flower that produces dainty little hybrids. There are about 15 more Vieusseuxia species that I haven't been able to try yet. If anyone has ideas on how to get seeds or pollen from them, please let me know. For the record, I'm also doing my best to breed the species, but I also like having something new to look at each year. If anybody has any advice on how to manage a hybridization program, I'm all ears. I'm not a trained botanist, so I'm mostly making it up as I go along. Thanks, Mike San Jose, CA ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 21:05:43 -0700 From: Mike To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: Re: [pbs] New Moraea hybrids, 2021 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hey Mike, Your Hybrids remind me of going to see the annual butterfly exhibit at the Safari Park here in San Diego each spring. The variety of combos and color saturation are stunning. I went and looked back at the past years posts too, you really have a commendable collection. Over the years which has been the hybrid you are most satisfied with, that developed as you intended. Also which hybrid has been your biggest surprise ? ( wow didht plan that outcome but it looks amazing) ? Have a great evening, Mike San Diego Lachenalia are waking up now, looking forward to their blooming season. On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 8:40 PM Michael Mace via pbs wrote: > Hi, gang. > > > > For about a decade I've been breeding Moraea hybrids. If you'd like to see > my favorite new flowers from spring 2021, there's a post on my blog here: > https://growingcoolplants.blogspot.com/2021/10/… > > > > There are some nice magenta and orange flowers, some with veins and spots, > and some flowers with intriguing multicolored eyes. I'm still trying and > failing to breed a truly red flower, but there are some nice brick-colored > ones. > > > > I think it's amazing how much genetic variety there is in this genus. So > far > I've been able to cross about 15 species in subgenus Vieusseuxia, which > includes the "Peacock" Moraea flowers. This year I had the first flowers > from hybrids with M. debilis, a tiny blue flower that produces dainty > little > hybrids. There are about 15 more Vieusseuxia species that I haven't been > able to try yet. If anyone has ideas on how to get seeds or pollen from > them, please let me know. > > > > For the record, I'm also doing my best to breed the species, but I also > like > having something new to look at each year. > > > > If anybody has any advice on how to manage a hybridization program, I'm all > ears. I'm not a trained botanist, so I'm mostly making it up as I go along. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Mike > > San Jose, CA > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:08:43 +0000 (UTC) From: Robert Lauf To: Michael Mace via pbs Subject: Re: [pbs] New Moraea hybrids, 2021 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Michael, Holy cow. I think you should be telling us how to manage a breeding program!? Your results speak for themselves.? Don't feel bad about failing to get pure red.? Iris breeders have been trying and failing to get a true red TB iris for a lot longer than you have.? It's as elusive as the blue cattleya. My approach to breeding is grow as many seedlings as you have the space for, cull ruthlessly, and enlist others to look at the seedlings with you because another set of eyes really helps to narrow things down and also see interesting things that one person might miss. That being said, where do you have the room for so many crosses?? How many seeds of each cross do you typically get and sow?? How much variation do you see among the seedlings of each cross?? How long to first bloom? Bob? Zone 7 ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 08:17:21 +0100 From: Johannes-Ulrich Urban To: Pacific Bulb Society Subject: [pbs] My questions Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 ?Dear All, Thank you very much for answering my questions, both the one about punctuation mistakes and the one about Wachendorfia. I now have a better understanding what is happening between different software. And I think there are some more seeds of Wachendorfia so I can give them another try under different conditions. I now have an understanding of what went wrong. 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