Very nice. Bogota is one of my favorites, and unfortunately my single specimen succumbed to chafer beetle grubs, so I will have to look for another one next year

Xuan,

Bogota and Exotic Star are two of my very favorite hippies, (but, of course there are many ;-)). I'm wondering if this is the first blooming for your Bogota as it looks a bit different from mine.

You have another lovely Charisma cross..are they sister seedlings and have you any idea what they were crossed with?

Donna

Donna, yes this is my first Bogota bloom. So it looks different from your Bogota? I might as look up it up on the web.

As for the Charisma cross, I'm sorry but I have no idea what it was cross with, I'm not a good record-keeper :(

Can you guess its parent somehow?

Xuan

PS: Wish to share another photo of Bogota taken in the dark with flash.

Xuan,

I think the difference is just due to the fact that you took your pictures before the petals had a chance to do their curly twirl..your last picture shows the petals more like mine.

I might have mentioned this before but of all four flowers that I pollinated on Bogota Sweet Lilian appears to be the only one to have taken. I did 2 with papilio and 1 with Exotic Star. Not that you shouldn't try those combinations if you wanted to, sometimes they take and sometimes they don't. I was really hoping for the papilio to take so I did 2 of them!!

Here is my Bogota..

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and my lucky seedpod!

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I was very careful to remove all pollen before the pollen sacs opened so I am confident that this is indeed Sweet Lilian. The only Sweet Lilian seeds after probably 15 or so tries with this and that...so you never know. But of course I won't know until I open the pod to see what's inside will I...

Donna

Wonderful, Donna.

Thanks for sharing tips.

Xuan

My Bogata is just opening today.
K

Very pretty Bogota from everyone. Thanks for sharing! I didn't know Bogota bloom is bigger than Exotic Star. Well, here's a side question: Did anyone tried crossing a miniature like Cupido or Green Dragon with an Exotic Star? From the forum discussion, it seems like Exotic Star is hard to cross and only takes Apple Blossom so far. i still don't know much about the ploidy of these hybrids to know if they are compatible or not.
My

My,

It would appear that my seeds of Exotic Star x Apple Blossom aren't doing so well germinating. I only have one so far and it doesn't look very good.. but it is too soon to know for sure.

Last year I got a few seeds with Evergreen x Exotic Star (just a few are growing on) and I have a seedling about to open in a few days that is a cross of Naranja x Exotic Star.

I made this cross over 3 years ago and even on the label I put a "?" since in those days I wasn't as careful as I am now about removing the pollen. But it appears that it is Exotic Star and not a self as I feared, I have 5 of these in one pot and one is about to bloom.

I'd have to go looking but I think I have some other seedlings of No .0016 x Exotic Star and I also had an undocumented seedpod on Exotic Star and I think I gave all of them away and only kept one and it is huge seedling..big mistake even if I didn't know what it was...

So, I wouldn't hesitate to try Green Dragon or Cupido if you have the opportunity, it never hurts to try.

Kristi, your Bogota is beautiful! Now what are you going to put on it, maybe you can get papilio to take on yours!

Donna

Looking forward to seeing the exotic star x Naranja flower when it arrives.

I've got one pot of exotic star x dancing queen seedlings from 2011, but they are not growing very fast. Attempts with about 8 other crosses involving exotic star all failed to produce mature pods.

Now I have giraffe and exotic star flowering together, so I've cross-pollinated them both ways and hope something will emerge, since they are quite similar in appearance