More plants:

This is B. 'La Noche' x N. 'Puppy Love' and it's pretty boring.
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I almost like this one. It's hard to photograph with the heavy scurf and dark blushing since I Florel'd it. I expect flowers soon. This is Ae. distachantha x B. distachia.
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Hi Nick,

Interesting to see, thanks for sharing them. Did you happen to get any results with Bills x Aech. chantinii?

Cheers, Paul

I agree - very interesting Nick. Even more interesting will be the inflorescence they each develop.

I would never have guessed the parentage of that last dark, frosty one! - or any of them actually.

Thanks Dr. Frankenstein - please keep us updated. :)

K

I don't have a lots of Billbergias and lately I'm having a very low success rate with bigeneric crosses using Billbergias. None of the crosses I've done in the last year have taken (so far). But, I only tried two Billbergias and they were not interested in the pollen I gave them. I put some Billbergia pollen on a few plants in December and it's too early to tell but I'd bet they didn't take.

I never really tried to cross a Billbergia with a chantinii. But, I wouldn't be surprised if it worked. I've used chantiniis in a fair number of my bigeneric crosses.

I have 4 more Billbergia bigeneric crosses that I could show but I think I'll wait until they flower.

Hi bromadams,

Up until now I've never really been interested in bigenerics but looking at your plant of Ae. distachantha x B. distachia is probably going to change all of that.

I find it a most interesting looking plant and would be very interested to see what it flowers like.

Please keep us posted.

Thanks for sharing, all the best, Nev.

Even though I am not a hybridizer, I think it is highly beneficial to see the result of crosses also when they did not turn out to be as nice as one might thought. This saves a number of years of trying by others and, I guess, not to mention the pot-space saved for something else!

I join those who favor that dark colored one. Please keep us posted.

Here is another B. 'Kyoto' x N. cruenta. This does look like a Billbergia. This is quite large compared to the other one I showed.

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Starting to see the inflorescence on the two xBillmeas that I Florel'd. They are coming up slowly, so maybe they will last a while.

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