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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 20220227_085011 copy.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 165930 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: favorite crinum copy.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 115189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: favorite crinum cross copy.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 188501 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
