Yes...if Gold Medal is fertile. Some varieties are not capable of producing seeds but are good pollen donors. I have no experience with Gold Medal.

Although I have not tried this method I have done many crosses and grown to flower. As noted above, some varieties are "self fertile". However for those that aren't you may want to try this... Collect pollen from a Hippeastrum know to have good viability such as red lion or papilio. Sterilize the pollen in a microwave by blasting it formaybe 10 -15 seconds. Mix the sterilized pollen with the pollen from the first opening blossom and apply to second or third blossoms on the same plant. The idea is to "trick" the plant into thinking that it is getting viable pollen from another plant. Hope for the best.

Pat,

I read about that microwave trick, but I've never had the nerve to try it. Theoretically, it sounds good, though.

Have you tried it on varieties that do not usually self?

I have tried to save and use pollen at a later date, but that was with selfing Johnsonii, and it didn't work. I only tried it once (during a rainy spell), so there may have been other factors that prevented it from working.

I hope to try it again. Others have told me that it is possible. If it is, then exchanging pollen via mail might work like it does with daylilies and open lots of opportunities that we would never otherwise have.

Hi Elizabeth,
Yes, you can store pollen. I keep it in the butter keeper on the fridge door. I collect the pollen in little paper coin envelopes and put them in a small canning jar.Add a few of the small silica packets that come with shoes and your pollen should last a good 6 months.
I have shipped pollen by vacumm sealing it in foodsaver film. Unopened,it may last up to a year :) Lora

Lora,

Do you just scrape the pollen off the anthers into the coin envelope?

Mason jars and coin envelopes, I have and no doubt, if I look hard enough, I have some of those silica packets. I know that I have a jar of silica, also.

I'll definitely give that a try again this year. No promises, but I will try. Most of my Amaryllis have been here for a long time, and I don't try to force them. They bloom when they are ready.

I do purchase additional varieties each year just to make sure I keep my bloom sanity during the colder months.

Thanks!

I pluck the whole anther off :o
A layer of silica in the bottom of the jar should work fine,use what you have. I have sons with monsterously huge feet,we get a lot of those little packets !
Even when you try to time blooms it dosn't always work out. It's nice to have those little packets handy when you have an open flower and nothing else is inspiring.
I add new things each year too. Zone 5 winters stink! Lora