Looks like it's going to be a beauty.....

day 2 a little more progress

Hi Jim,

Congratulations on your efforts, they look very healthy and it looks like they'll have very impressive blooms:-))) Do you have them growing in the ground and how long did it take to grow from seed to flowering?

Warm Regards,

Fred

Well most good gardeners would get these flowering after 2 years, once my hippi's are established, i dont fertilize them and water them infrequently, this one is now in its fourth year, it unusual as most of the other seedlings stayed a dark red colour, i actually only moved these ones last month and wasnt expected them to flower at all

almost open

Very cheerful! I don't recognize it but maybe someone else will. Is it a seedling?

I bought a batch of seeds 4 years ago and almost every seedling turned out to be a pure red flower and a few other ones had some white in them.

Here is one of the red ones

Very nice and worth the wait :-)))

The other hippi sitting with the double

Very beautiful!thanks for sharing! Whats the name of the amaryllis white striped with red? Especially lovely...

it would be called Unknown seedling, I would think it may be a cross with apple blossum (one of the few bulbs that I have bought, its the oldest hippi that i have and started me on my hippi journey) and some red seed grown hippi that had flowered, so this year there may be some new crosses, the offspring so far have been mostly only red with no variation, if anything good appears I will post some more