Handsome and impressive flower indeed! Also I find Playful very attractive. Fantastic creations altogether, the whole lot.

It's nice that they seem to send out offsets so easily. They are all beautiful.

Unfortunately, the majority of my very favorized are yet to put any offset. F1#18 is an exception! On the other hand, the large, spiderous flowers of this sibling wilt away rather fast.

The sibling F1#3 produced a second bloom:

Beautiful!

K

Greetings Hans-Werner,

Isn't this one one your precious seedlings???

Kind regards,

Blanca

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These are all so beautiful it's impossible to pick a favorite!

Thank you! In all humility it is fair to say this is just the beginning, I have approximately 30 younger seedlings of F2, mainly from F1#15 x F1#18 in the queue, but I also got plenty of seedlings from F2("5-pack") x F1#15. Fortunately this kind of Amaryllis does not require as much area per bulb

The first 5 lines in the foreground, however, are F2("playful") x F1#15

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Wonderful!!

Wouldn't you be needing foster homes soon... ;)

That's a good idea! I will keep in mind...

To my surprise, a daughter bulb of F1#3 produced a scape. This was the first scape of #3 with 5 florets:

I love the conspicuous curvatures in the lower segments

Annother sibling, "the strong one" (scapes much larger than the other siblings, and the floral segments broader too) produced a nice umbel too:

The seed parent of the following F2 specimen is most likely the F1 sibling shown above, which was the one and only with a subtle cross-venation.

The above plant is very nice, I love the middle tepals and color distribution is great

Hmmm...

There is a second scape with 5 florets emerging...

Very handsome! Thank you for the photo.

I can't wait to start creating my own papilio-hybrids!! But it will still take some time because I'm growing my breeding stock from seed...

The second scape...

That's such a nice plant, Hans. What do you think about it?

I think about it, that I should pollinate my first bloom of H.papilio from it, which is due in couple weeks...

I think it is my favorite of the season...

You might recognize this one, it is the specimen I showed first. This is the 3rd scape, including the maiden bloom in March, indoors. This is a favorite, too, not only did it produce 3 scapes during 6 months, also the colors are intense, the edges of the tepals are slightly undulated and there is such a nice, conspicuous red lining on them. This sibling is capable of producing seed...

(The upper flowers with slight cross-venation on them are from yet another sibling)

this is the sibling with cross-venation.

Yet another sibling.

Very nice! I especially like the reflexed tepals of the ones with the cross-venation. They all seem to take after H. cybsiter in regards to the floriferousness. It would be nice if a backcross with H. papilio created a plant with an even stronger "butterfly" shape that produced as many flowers and scapes as these.

You certainly have a great eye for breeding.

Thank you! "Wer die Wahl, hat die Qual" and the number of seedlings which appear a good choice, is still growing...

hmmm...

Very beautiful! Love all your collections!

BEAUTIFUL, is All I can say.

That last one looks like something that would have been produced from H. bukasovii, it's very beautiful!

I love cybisters! All of these flowers are so pretty!

Love all of your creations, they are so Beatiful!!!!!!!

Thank you all for your comments.

My Significant-Other appreciates the specimen above particularly.

here it is in full bloom:

Whereas this sibling is, due to its conspicuous venation, a candidate for the pollination of my 2nd floret of H.papilio which is in bloom right now, indoors.

i suspect this seedling of being wrangled into this place, it should not be an F2 from "Chico" x H.papilio but a specimen of ("Giraffe" x "Chico") x ("Chico" x H.papilio)

The Floret in the background has 7 Tepals and 6 Anthers, and the one on the right side 8 Tepals, 8 Anthers and a 4-part Stigma.

I like the mostly green one at the bottom and the darkest red- the flower shapes and coloration are very nice. They are all lovely though.

The ballon effect contributed to the shape of the bloom of this sibling.

So beautiful....

Heyja Haweha,

You started with the solar eclipse, did you take a picture of the lunar eclipse? I did not try my luck with our camera, but I did capure the "blood moon" that followed:

I love your Cybister-creations, but I think the best I have seen so far from you are the PapMinPic-crosses!

I have 'Bogota' and 'Emerald' here, in which direction would you try to breed? I could, for example, use dutch hybrids, 'Mrs. Garfield' or also Papilio? I have a lot of pollen stored ...

Unfortunately I totally missed the spectacular event, however my parents watched it and if my memory does not deceive me, they indicated that they took pictures. If you have "Emerald" in bloom then you might consider "Mrs. Garfield" and H.papilio for crosspollination. As regards "PapMinPic1", I applied its pollen on the last 8 flowers of "Melusine" and now I am about to obtain, after all, 2 seed pods. "Melusine" is very reluctant at producing seed pods; I feel fortunate...

Nothing in bloom right now, but I have a newly purchased papilio bulb. What are the chances in that direction? Are these cybisters real diploids? I remember reading something of odd ploidity levels.

I have pollen of:

• Minvera x white (to compete with your PapMinPic ... though the idea of a red-white bloom on papilio crossed my mind before I saw your creations! ;) )

• Sydney x Supreme Garden (this pollen is way too old, I'm still waiting for the other siblings to bloom - I think I tried it on Bogota but it did not take)

• Sydney x Amputo (also the first of five to bloom)

• Mrs Garfield

• La Pango ;)

• Bogota

• Emerald

Everything at least half a year old and stored at room temperature ...

But ... I also ordered the speckled 'Spotlight', which will hopefully bloom first

All the pollen that is stored at room temperature, can be discarded. In hippeastrum pollen does not live more than a couple of weeks after flowering. I keep it in the refrigerator, and I advise you, too.

I am inclined to second Oleg on the viability of pollen stored at ambient temperature for more than a couple weeks.

I did read that the pollen stays viable longer than you'd think somewhere ... but I guess mine is of no use anymore ... I will try though ... sometimes you get lucky. Next time I'll store it in the freezer.

My favorite of 2015 ( plz go to my posting of August 26, 2015 at 2:57PM)

Hans-Werner,

Thanks for resurrecting this lovely thread. Such an inspiration!! I wonder... how many of these crosses do you still have?
This one is just one of the prettiest I've seen!! I hope people remember to click on these pictures to see the full resolution.....

During the last 4 years or so I had no losses to deplore. They are all there! The seedlings In their balcony boxes, in two lines, 6 to 10 per line!

Can never see these pictures enough!

I couldn't agree more :-))))

Thank you so much! Two other siblings of the same "batch" of 18 siblings of F2 are about to bloom. This season is - hitherto - a better year for me, I am capable of putting more Diligence in this subject than usual.

Do you recognize this one? Its maiden bloom is shown in the very first Picture. This one is a "Producer" too, with two scapes per Season.

Wow! I simply cannot decide which I like most! Thank you for creating all those beauties and sharing their pictures with us!

Anja