What an impressive achievement, congrats Hippiezep!! And thank you so much for posting!
I've been waiting and waiting for photos and news of seedlings blossoming but in vain... Folks are so into their imported bulbs perhaps? ;)

Any more pictures?? Don't hesitate to share, please... I find these threads of crosses and breeding absolutely fascinating, I read them over and over again, trying to absorb everything I can, being a novice myself.

What a beautiful flower to start off your season with! Each year I look forward to your many beautiful pictures and I can see that this year will be just as exciting! Your crosses are among the best!...Donna

Lovely! Lima just like it's parent Papilio, has such strong genes. How big are the flowers and how many flowers in the scape? Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the comments. The season is quite short in Hong Kong - March, April, May, then 9 months of nothing, so it's very exciting to see the scapes pushing up again. There are the same ones from last year that I hope will flower again and one or two new ones I'm looking forward to. One of these is San Remo x Apple Blossom - one bulb now has a bud. Apple Blossom is very hard or even impossible to pollinate, it seems, but San Remo proved to be a successful host for Apple Blossom pollen. Since the flowers look similar, I'm hoping that the hybrid will look something like an intermediate between them, but you never know.

The other is a Benfica x Dancing Queen hybrid which was pollinated again by Dancing Queen. Will this second generation hybrid look more like Dancing Queen than the first rather indistinguished red hybrid? We'll soon find out.

I'll try to put the parents in the photos too, seed host on top and pollen donor ont he bottom, like the one below, if I have time. It's taking me rather a long time doing this with Picasa, but I hope it can get a bit quicker with practice.

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A second Lima x night star from 2011 has come out. This time I also have a Lima in flower, so the Lima pollen is going straight on to these flowers to see if a fertile cross can result.

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Best of luck!

-Blanca