May. 4th, 2015

lblanchard: (swannfountain)
In prior years, I had at maximum two pods ripening. This year I have thirteen (give or take a couple). So far, no pod that has ripened appears to have produced infertile seeds, as in the year that I crossed Appleblossom and Gervase.

It's going to be hard to keep them all straight! As an aide memoire, I put tags on all the pod stems, indicating pod and pollen parents. I also took photos of all the parents. So I can do photojournals of all the classes. This will be of particular interest to [livejournal.com profile] pondhopper and [livejournal.com profile] halfmoon_mollie, who will be playing along at home with their own little hippeastrum factories, once I've sent the seeds.

So here we go. Click the images to view larger versions

2015A: Pod parent 2011A3 (left), pollen parent 2009-1 (right)

2015-03-22_0032hippeastrum_xgervase3 2015-03-14_0582_2009-1


2015B: Pod parent 2011A2 (left), pollen parent Gervase (right)

2015-03-14_0611xGervase2 2015-03-10_0009gervase


2015C: Pod parent 2011A2 (left), pollen parent not sure but probably 2011A1 (right)

2015-03-14_0611xGervase2 2015-03-04_0302hippeastrum_xGervase1


2015D: Pod parent 2011A5(left), pollen parent Gervase (right)

2015-04-02_0031hippeastrum2011A5 2015-03-10_0009gervase


2015E: Pod parent 2011A5 (left), pollen parent 2011A4 (right)

2015-04-02_0031hippeastrum2011A5 2015-03-22_0040hippeastrum_xgervase4


2015F: Pod parent 2011A4 (left), pollen parent Gervase (right)

2015-03-22_0040hippeastrum_xgervase4 2015-03-18_0008gervase


2015G: Pod parent 2011A4 (left), pollen parent 2011A5 (right)

2015-03-22_0040hippeastrum_xgervase4 2015-04-02_0031hippeastrum2011A5


2015H: Pod parent 2006A2 (left), pollen parent 2011A4 (right)

2015-04-01_0024hippeastrum2006-2 2015-03-22_0040hippeastrum_xgervase4


2015I: Pod parent 2006A2 (left), pollen parent Gervase (right)

2015-04-01_0024hippeastrum2006-2 2015-03-18_0001gervase


2015J: Pod parent 2011A5; pollen parent Gervase (small pod, few seeds, may be duds)

2015-04-02_0031hippeastrum2011A5 2015-03-18_0008gervase


2015K: Pod parent 2006A3 (left), pollen parent 2011A5 (right)

2015-03-30_0048hippeastrum2006-3 2015-04-02_0031hippeastrum2011A5


2015L, 2015M, and 2015N: Pod parent 2006A3 (left), pollen parent Gervase (right)

2015-03-30_0048hippeastrum2006-3 2015-03-18_0008gervase


2015O: Pod parent 2006A3 (left), pollen parent 2011A4 (right)

2015-03-30_0048hippeastrum2006-3 2015-03-22_0040hippeastrum_xgervase4


2015P: Pod parent 2006A2 (left), pollen parent 2013A1 (right)

2015-03-27_0013hippeastrum2006-2 2015-04-12_0138hippeastrum_sonofsupermarket



I think I may have a fertile pod with that early bloomer from the Class of 2013 as pollen parent, but it's awfully small.

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