I'd offer some pollen from a Worsleya, but honestly, that has almost zero chance of actually yielding a cross so sort of a waste of your flower to be honest :o) Dan

If I had a half dozen flowers to play with I'd jump at the chance to try at least one flower but, as you say no sense wasting one of only two flowers and your precious pollen. Thanks for the thought though...
We can dream of someday walking through those French Doors to our conservatories with a blue papilio sitting there waiting for us.... :-) Donna

Oh what prospects! It will be thrilling to follow this conversation.

Donna, of my two papilio flowers I pollinated one with Tango (27th of December), looking good so far... But anything can happen anytime, as we all know.

Hi Leena,

Tango with papilio should produce some unique flowers, I would imagine they might be like papilio and Chico but hopefully on the pink side..so, It will be very interesting to see how your pod develops. I might have better than two weeks (probably 3) before my papilio is ready, so in the meantime we can see how yours progresses.. how exciting!! If yours is still viable at the time mine is ready then prehaps that would be a good choice. Thanks!! Donna

I'll keep you informed, definitely! Needless to say how much I'm hoping the pod would make it...

Dear Donna,
I suggested Tango or Chico be used as pollen parent if you have no other choice:)

But for me, I prefer use Bogota', 'Machala', 'Quito' or 'Night Star'

Pupu

LOL! The Title totally misleading, I am giggling!
I read it as: "What should I cover my outdooored H.papilio Crop with, in order to have them survive throughout the winter in my garden?"

I would pollinate from "Chico" -
you will obtain tons of seeds, up to 140 per seed pod!

Definitely cross with a cybister! Oooooh!

Any suggestion from haweha, is worth taking! He has far more experience creating crosses than most of us do.

Thanks everyone!! I am going to do one flower with Chico. The other I may use Tango and someone has offered to send me some frozen Ruby Star pollen from last season and since I read somewhere that Ruby Star has papilio in it's parantage I may mix the two pollens (Ruby Star and Tango) to use on the second flower!! Thanks, again...Donna

Ruby Star is a gorgeous flower! It's one of the few hippies that I have more than one bulb of. So pretty!

I should have plenty of fresh La Paz pollen in the next few days. Let me know if you are interested.

Thanks Mike, but I think I have decided to use Tango which is pink, actually acquired by mistake by purchasing a La Paz! I really like the Tango as it was most definitly pink, and not pale at all. So the chosen ones this time around will be Chico and Tango. If I should be so lucky as to get another papilio scape then perhaps I would take you up on your generous offer! Thanks again, Donna