Past season....GILMAR tops the list! Very fertile both ways as a seed parent and pollen donor. I got successful using Gilmar in pollinating both diploid and tetraploid varieties.

Last season, I had tremendous success with my Lemon and Lime. Great seed parent and great pollinator. I had fab results from all the seeds she gave or shared with other bloomers.

I don't have either one... Lemon & Lime or Gilmar... I can see I need to do more bulb shopping! I'm hoping Minerva will be a good Mommy plant!

ok Jodi, I will add some of my L&L cross seedlings to your pack. As a matter of fact, I can send your plumie cutting, rain lilies and add the amarylli babies now. If you email me your address I can send them off next week. Go to my member page and DO NOT email me via garden web. You will see my email link. Do not click on it. It will not go through. But if you copy and paste my addy into an email I should get it fine. I was supposed to go to another plant trade this weekend, but my legs are failing me again and I have fresh Plumeria cuttings. Would be happy to give them a home.

Anyone else, I have 2 more fresh and nice size Aztek Gold Plumerias that I can share, just let me know if you want them. Sending them now will give them an opportunity to grow over winter and develop roots and hopefully bloom next summer for you. They will do well in a cool but non freezing garage, patio or home without direct heat over winter. Then can be placed outside in spring after any freeze.

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As I experienced, the small flowering varieties love to grow seeds. Rapido for instance... 10 plus seed pods, and tonns of seeds.

Cindee - You should be getting an email from me... Thanks so very much for your offer to send the plants! Please let me know via email what I can trade for them!

soultan - I read that several of the species type amaryllis like to give seed pods, too... that's very interesting... and 10 plus pods from your Rapido... that's a lot of seeds! No wonder you have so many to plant!

I may say it was 15+, but I really don't remember. At that time, I had a lot of bulbs flowering and seeding for me, but I know Rapido was like a breeding machine.

I just spent some time reading through the Plumeria forum, and I think I have a good idea of what to do and what to expect from Plumeria cuttings. I'm so looking forward to all the new plants I'll have very soon! Thank you, Cindee, for your generosity, and thanks to soultan for including me in his bulb purchase! This is going to be a busy winter for me with plants, but that's the one thing I love to do indoors... putter around my indoor garden, working with my plants!

jodik,

I am just as excited about these bulbs. I cannot wait for them to be shipped out... I still have about 30 bulbs in my fridge waiting to be planted, but I can't wait for the new ones to arrive... (I know, I am insane. This is the sick part of the addiction.)

Then it's true... I'm an amaryllis addict... newly addicted, maybe, but still addicted! The good news is... there are a lot worse things to be addicted to... flowers are not so bad a thing!

I have a funny feeling I'm about to become a plumeria addict, too! I looked at so many gorgeous pictures of colorful plumerias, all in different stages of growth and bloom... and even the little cuttings looked really cool!

Yes, they are... (bad things to be addicted to)
Now, that I have a huge collection, I wouldn't like to lose it... So from addiction, it has became a responsibility... Even though I enjoy it, I have this need to complete the collection, so I have to buy and buy and buy until I get everything that is available there.

Right now, I am thinking of how to order 100 bulbs from Australia, so I could get a few of their varieties, then later some more... I just don't want to spend $1000 + shipping + certificates on a 100 bulbs all at once. I am not even sure if they have 100 different varieties...

Since new varieties are introduced every year, or every once in a while... how can you ever be done collecting?

I know what you mean, though... I just got done pouring over Ty Ty's website, and I found some incredible Crinums and other Lily types that I'd love to try! And here I am with only a small collection of the Hippiastrums, which I haven't even mastered yet!

Jodic...Please email me with your address. :-)

Done... although, now I'm curious... do tell! :-)

TyTy is a NO-NO! Don't go! I am sure Maria will explain.

I'm glad you said something, Cindee... I was only "window" shopping, though... I love catalogs, looking through online or paper catalogs, even though I'll probably never be able to order from most of them...

Usually, I get catalogs and I end up using them for reference, and I buy my plants locally. If I DO place a catalog order, it's usually because someone told me they had a good experience with that company.

I just can't resist the pretty pictures... and I love to daydream! LOL!!

TyTy is a NONONONONONONONONONOOOOOOOOOO!
At least in my opinion.
I bought from them two years ago. Their top sized bulbs were smaller than golf balls, they have still not flowered for me and most of them turned out to be mutts. They also shipped the package with full address, name, credit card information printed on the top of the package. I would not order from them. If you don't care about flowering or true-to-name, then go ahead and spend your money. You will get bulbs, that is for sure...

Two years, and still no flowers? That's not right...

They actually put your credit card info on the outer box? Wow, talk about irresponsibility! Identity theft is easy enough without just handing over the information to the crooks!

Well... I'm slowly getting a list built up of places NOT to order from! This is what I hate about the world we live in... if they SAY they have something to sell, they should HAVE that very thing! Scammers suck!

Two years and still no flowers. And if my other mishandled bulbs bloomed for me, then they should have as well, if they were supposed to be blooming size (TOP SIZED as advertised) at the beginning. I just don't like this company. I hate when people think they can take advantage on others. I am wiser now. I am not afraid to charge-back my credit cards if there is something not right with my purchases. I let them fight and show their truth. I make pictures, save documents and submit my case. I have never lost a case.

Most companies will try to make right any mistakes they make with orders... most companies, that is... There are those that just don't care and only want to make the sale. It's always prudent to make copies of any order forms, keep receipts, document purchases, etc... You just never know when you will need to access and use those records you keep. Especially if a company offers a "guarantee" on plant material.

That was with Bulbmart n ebay (Hirt's Gardens). They guaranteed. I told them that I had two rotten bulbs and one split in half. They required me to send back the rotten and split bulbs, so they can resell them. I sent them back the rotten mess and Moonlight bulb, then they did not return my money, and asked me to send all the information with the security code to them through the e-mail. That was the point when I simply told them that I consider this answer a sign of non compliance after a month of deliberation, so I simply submitted the charge back of the bulbs' prices, the shipping, and the shipping back. I must have been right, because I got the money.

That's good... it worked out in the end, although, you didn't get the bulbs you wanted. That's one of the reasons we always use PayPal... every purchase is covered.

I've been very lucky... I've bought many things through eBay, and I've never had a problem. I bought my Papillio through a private seller at Ebay, and not a bulb company, so I got exactly the bulb I wanted... plus, they threw in 2 extras for free! I'm very happy. I would do it again, but only through a private party, and not from a bulb company.

Bulbmart has varieties now that I would like to get, but I simply refuse to order from them. If I don't get it from others, then I will look for them next season.