Great pictures, I love them all!!!
Dorothy

LENETTE,GLAD YOU ARE FEELING BETTER! I'M JUST GETTING OVER BEING SICK WITH AN URI.ALOT OF STUFF GOING AROUND.
YOU HAVE SOME WONDERFUL BRUGS! YOU'LL HAVE PLENTY OF SEEDS FROM THE LOOKS OF THOSE PODS. I LOVE YOUR EPIES! I JUST GOT AN ORANGE/SALMONY COLORED XMAS CACTUS. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE IT OPEN!

THERESA

sjn, nice shots and isn't it great to see all the different shaped of seedpods? Take it easy and get better soon.

WOW!!! Lots of nice things blooming and look at all of your pods..Congrats!! Is that your handy work?? I just started the seeds you sent I am very excited about them.. ;P.
Hope you get better soon!!!
Kylie

Lenette, everything looks so pretty..even the "ucky and washed out", and not so perfect ones..they are still pretty and a nice sight to see during a dark cloudy rainy truly UCKY day, lol.
Wow, thats alot of epi's ya got there.
thanks you for sharing :)

Nice pics. Very informative on the pods too. I think I will clip this thread. Thanks for sharing.....

Thanks for the pics! I really like the orange brugs. And congrats on all the pods! Wow, what are you going to do with all those seeds?
Shawn

Awesome, but not clickable. Really wanted to see some close ups of those pods.

Is all of that still alive by you? I'm so jealous. Everything is so pretty and you are so loaded with pods! My only variety that has a different shaped pod is the Butterfly and that looks like a fat teardrop. All the others look like subs.

Lenette can I move to Florida over the winter month? Oh wait...my daughter would be upset if I live with you instead of her rofl.

WOW what a sight! But I am glad you showed your Lemong Meringue. I KNEW there was someone else out there that had it lol. Is it doing good for you in the heat with developing all skirts pretty?

Gosh those seed pods. I just fainted I am envying you so much. I got to go out and check on my ONE seedpod in the shed today lol.

Got a question after you mentioned ONE still has part of the calyx on. On my seedpod the calyx is still on ALL the way. Am I suppose to take it off?

Thank you so much for sharing. I think I will pass on the picture of the day to one of you Florida or Cal. guys rofl

Hugs
Lucy

Hi Thanks for the compliments on even the 'ucky' ones lol. Most of the pods are planned pods the names are on the stems on one side or the other lol, some just aren't showing in the pix. I have found out that the black sharpie does fade. So I lightly scratched it in on some and it is still visible.
There's about 4 pods that are unknown. I have way more than shown but I was trying to show the general diff shapes. Tiara has pods too that look similar to Creamsickle's and Rubirosa is just starting hers.

karyn, yes that's pretty much how they all look here right now.
We got into the upper 20's twice here already and lower 30's several times. Most larger brugs are still in the ground. DH built frames around the beds with 2x4s and we just hung blankets and plastic over them etc. I shove the pots of smaller plants underneath the larger ones so I don't have to haul them into the garage.
The brugs and the pods all made it so far. The tops of Adeline and NN got burnt badly though.

I don't know whats wrong with photobucket that the thumbnails won't open..that's aggravating.

Theresa I hope you are feeling better soon too. I'm still waiting for the white, yellow, lav and pink xmas cactus to open.. Post a pic of your orange one when it blooms!

Lucy, we posted at the same time lol. To answer your question.. No you do not have to remove the calyx. I only do it here because it gets so humid that stuff will rot in there as moisture collects.
In general, I think they do better in the calyx if you can leave them there because they are protected from cold, sunburn, some insects, and get a little humidity in a dry enviornment. I have found in dry periods and when I lived in a drier climate that the ones that I left in the calyx grew larger faster than the ones I left out.

LM actually did pretty good in the heat for a double (actually triple/quadruple). She is really putting out the blooms now in the fall though, I just have most of them ripped up to pollinate. I am finding mostly quadruples right now but the 4th skirt is tucked way up there.. whereas in the summer it was mostly triples .

I could never do pix of the day lol. I am way too lazy and plus you do such an awesome job!!!
~Lenette

Lenette, what wonderful photos of some of your collection! I don't see anything wrong with the bloom on your brugs, but then I am not an expert. They all look fantastic to me! Wow, all those seed pods, amazing!

SJN~Hope you are feeling better :0)and thanks for posting pics of the mother plant (epi) that you sent me,wish that darn photobucket would work so I could get a better look at it.
Boy your brugs are doing wonderful and you have alot of seed pods-keep up the good work!

Rigo

Lenette thank you for the answer. I got kind of worried after seeing your pictures and went in the shed to check on my ONE seedpod in the calyx. Gosh I do not know if I should mention it. Last time I did the Rascal Brug lost its seedpod.
FLAMECO has at least ONE forming!!!!!!! yeahhhhhhhhh

Again thanks

Lucy

Lenette,

Beautifully breath-taking plants. You have one beautiful Angel collection.

Great job on all the hybridizing you've been doing. You might want to use the paint pens. They will last though at least one season writing on the stem of your plants. I use them for my crosses and they don't fade like the permanent markers do.

Thank you for sharing all your pictures.

~Tj~

Lenette, forgot to say I'm sorry you have been sick, and I hope you are much better now.

Tj, what is the actual name of the paint pens? I've gone to Michael's here looking for something that says paint pens, but haven't been able to find them. Thx.

Eloise,

Here is what I've been using. I have a couple different brands but this gives you an idea.

http://www.sharpie.com/enUS/Product/Sharpie_Oil-Based_Paint_Marker_Medium.html

~Tj~

Thanks eloise, I am feeling a little better now.

Rigo I will try to send the larger pics to you via email:)

Tj~ I have used the paint pens on pots but not directly on the plants, they weren't the sharpie brand (can't remember now which brand they were). Those look good! Hmmm I can think of a few other uses for them as well....
With the reg. sharpie, the ones in the sun fade the most and ones written on the backs of the stem don't.

Wow, wow!!!! Thanks so much for posting these photos- just what I was looking for and very inspiring!!!! If I could just drag my computer into my sunroom, I would show my brugs how it's done!!! LOL!!

Well, as I said before, we are going to have ALOT of seeds to be sharing out to willing victims, er,.......... I mean, volunteers!!!!! You know, those with the back 40-acres to grow them out!!!

Love your epi collection. I luckily have a small collection started now, thanks to my SS and others who shared!

Thanks, Lenette~