Donna,

I want one!!! :)
-J

Wow, Donna, what a lucky mistake! Is it a cybister?

Alana

I loved it before, cant wait to see it again!
Mike

Thanks Guys, If I'm lucky enought to get a substantial number of selfed seeds, (I plan to self at least 2 possibly 3) I will share some seeds. This is a big "if" as last year I got nothing but, last year it was on an unrooted bulb but, this year she's got all her roots and she's under no stress. I would love to see what else whatever these genes are comprised of would produce!

Alana, she's not a cybister, just a very unusual miniature hippeastrum with flowers that measured somewhere around three and a half inches. I can't wait to see if she has those pie crust edges again...I am excited. So far no signs of any offsets though...

Donna

donna I remember her from last year she is lovely make sure u put up her photo of her flowers this year regards and happy growing danny

Pie crust edges... Good descriptor!!
:-)
K

I'm so excited following this beauty. Please post more photos.

Xuan

Exciting days ahead for Donna!!!

Hi All,

Well I just noticed that two of the five flowers are conjoined!! So, that will only give me 3 flowers and will that mean that since the ovaries are connected that I will only have 3 out of 5 flowers to pollinate?

This is too bad as I think the beauty of the flowers will be lost since they will be all crammed together. But I will have one normal one anyway. Has anyone ever successfully pollinated a conjoined flower and what did you get?

Last year I had 12 flowers and they were all singles....

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Donna

Wow, what are the odds?
K

Good Morning...

Well, sadly my Tinkerbell is having an off year.. to say the least! Her color is not as pink (might just be my imagination) and not to mention the two conjoined flowers! Even the remaining single doesn't have the beauty of last year.

The pollen sacs were opening before the flower even opened so I wasn't able to get them out in time to do anything but self her. (which I haven't done yet).

This will be the first time I have done anything with a conjoined flower, two stigmas and twice the pollen! It will be interesting to see what sort of seedpod a conjoined flower will produce as I'm going to do them both. Do you think that the connected ovaries will produce a double seedpod?

These instabilities may be the reason that the folks at Saad Assaf decided not to release her. But she's found a permanent home with me and I will do my best to make her happy so hopefully her flowers will return to what they were last year!

Donna

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and once again, last year...

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I will be interesting to see if the conjoined flowers are a regular trait of hers. I still love the colors! Good luck with the pollination!

Beautiful Donna, I do love 'Tinkerbell'!

Miss you guys, a lot!

I've been working almost non-stop, finishing school, taking care of sick relatives.... I'm going to make sure I start posting more again, this place is my therapy!

(sorry Donna to hijack your thread!)

Hi Josh! Have you been a voyeur? Hope you are well and please come on back, we do miss you!

Donna