my favorite crinum cross

Hi Mike,
Thanks, I have two Strine stags of very different aspect but similar
culture (light freeze tolerant, dryish, up to full sun). That one is
lemoinei and I'm standing under superbum to take the photo. Lemoinei grows
on rock faces in the desert, is fuzzy whitish and pups frequently while
superbum is a temperate version of grande, makes a magnificent crest, grows
on trees and does not pup.
Tim

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 11:49 PM Mike via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

Tim,

The crinum are beautiful, and so is that nice staghorn hanging on the wall
above.

Mike
San Diego
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 7:40 AM Tim Eck via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

My favorite crinum is blooming already because I brought it into the

heated

sunroom in January. I like this one because it makes multiple upright
bloomstalks that remain upright until seeds ripen, it has attractive
recurved petals with white throats and it refuses to offset after ten

years

or more.
Some think the object is to have a lot of offsets to sell or give away

but

I was specifically trying to breed a display plant that would have
attractive, even statuesque, foliage and bloom rather than a weedy patch
with a blob of color. Admittedly, it looks a bit gangly in the

greenhouse

but not so in higher light. Most of the time crosses are pretty much what
you expect, but sometimes they come out a lot better than you deserve.
This is one of those.
I will try to chip this plant in a year or so after I am confident in my
technique and equipment. One of the attached images is my heater for the
chipping chamber. I made it from two flood lights wired in series to

keep

them at a safe orange glow. I have it sitting on a lower shelf of a free
standing wire shelf unit and the heating unit thermister in the plastic
shoeboxes above with the chips and medium. At first I tried it with the
thermister in the vermiculite but the temperature swings were much

greater

than when I put it in the air above the medium. Since you aren't even
supposed to look at them for six weeks, I just wrapped the shelves in a
blanket and plastic and monitor the temperature with a weather sensor
transmitter.
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