Self-pollinating 'exotica'

I was deep into a piece of editing this afternoon, when I heard a sort of whispery rustling, like tissue paper being unfolded. It turned out to be the dried spathe of Hippeastrum 'gervase' sliding down the window frame as the flower stalk collapsed, taking the aborted seedpod with it, along with my hopes for some plants with the markings of one parent and the big size and fragrance of the other.

This would mean no seedling crop of Hippeastrum this year at all, unless I self-pollinated the 'exotica,' which had two flowers on its third scape. (There are a couple of unprepossessing striplings downstairs but I'm not interested in using them as breeding stock.) A couple of minutes with two brushes and the deed was done. Flower A pollinated from Flower B and vice versa.

I should have seeds, assuming this takes, along about May 25. In other news, the last flower on the Nopalxochia is wilting. That's it for the Nopalxochia show this year. All in all, it was pretty good.