Hey Andy

Really like Neoregelia ÂLife StarÂ! Nice form, size and colour. Nice job!

Your variegated number is also looking very nice...Ah wish they werent soooo slooow to start though!

Cheers

Dennis

Great work Andrew,
Yes, love the dark spines on 'Life Star' too.
Is that Gorrion cross the nice peachy coloured one you showed at the Fiesta ?
Looking forward to seeing the new ones "in-the-flesh" at a meeting soon !
Cheers
Graeme

Good show Andrew ,yep " Life Star " gets it from me as well ,keep up the good work ,and the variegated plant looks like it will shape up very well allround ,
Jack

Andrew your ÂLife Star is fantastic, hopefully it will make its way to OZ in the near future?

I purchased a darker unregistered purple Neo from Danny and Lindsy on the Qld Sunny Coast called "Rio Grande" which has some simular attributes in the spines and foliage. But it has no comparison of colour when in flower.

Thanks for showing your hybrids. It's great to see what others are up to.

Great plants Andrew I really like the stripes and the purple color in the first one.
And The marble throat plant kinda catches my eye also. The variegated one is going to be a winner. Lets have some more pics.

Very nice Andrew! I also like your Life Star a lot.

Purple Star is also one that I used quite a lot. None of them are as mature as yours are, but I think there will also be a few nice ones eventually. What I found very interesting about Purple Star is that in about all of the grexes, there are seedlings with a striated look - and I did not use it on any striated plant.

If not tomorrow, I'll get some pictures over the weekend.

Japie

Hey Andrew,

You've been a busy brom boy! Great to see some excellent results for your hard yakka. That 'Life Star' is a winner.

If you achieve good results worth registering of the Gorrion x Purple Star crossed with others, will you need to get the former hybrid registered first, in order to register its subsequent progeny?

It seems you have not just been busy with your own hybridising. A little bird sent me a copy of the recent N.Z. Brom Society's journal, including the first of your series of articles featuring the work of other brom hybridisers. The article on "our Lisa" is excellent - well-written and very interesting, with good photos too. I look forward to future articles of the series. Congratulations!

I'm sure your society has good reason, but it's a pity the impressive N.Z. journal is inaccessible to non-members online. Any chance of that changing?

K :)

Andrew,
Those are all really beautiful plants. 'Life Star' is a very special plant, and it looks like the variegated plant has great potential. I want to give the 'Marble Throat' cross its due credit, too! I'm curious to see how that one looks when it blooms.

Paul

Thanks everyone for your encouraging comments on Neoregelia ÂLife StarÂ. It was created in 2004, and I wanted to see how the pups developed before I decided to register the plant, so itÂs been a very long wait!

That peachy coloured plant you mention Graeme was a Gorrion cross, but the pollen came from ÂExotica Misty PinkÂ, here is a photo of it from the Fiesta.

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I am guessing I will have to register that Gorrion x PS Kerry, based on what Lisa has indicated in the past, and IÂm OK with that as it is a nice plantÂhere is a pic of it grown hard.

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Here is another PS hybrid, itÂs Clarise crossed with Purple Star and showing a hint of banding. Now I plan to cross this back to some banded neoÂs to hopefully produce something nice, but I see no point in registering this plant as it is nothing special in its own right, and there are many around that are very similar, like that Bianca x Tiger. If I did have to register it I would not wish to release it, so whatÂs the point ?

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Thanks for your comments on the hybridising article ;-) There are more in the pipeline, and IÂve really enjoyed doing them. I agree it would be great to have our journal available online as it is a quality product...IÂve emailed our web guru & asked the questionÂso weÂll have to wait & see.

Cheers, Andrew.

That 'Life Star' hybrid is a real stand-out Andrew, I am partial to a plant with prominent spines :)

Just to set the record straight, I may have said something in the past about having to register intermediate steps, but if I did, it was based on something another hybridizer told me. My own subsequent experience has not borne this out, so I apologize for any confusion. What I have found is that if one parent is under formula, and that formula matches a named hybrid (either my own or somebody else's), they'll generally ask if that cv. was in fact the parent, so that it can be recorded as such. If it wasn't, then it will be recorded as a formula, and if you have no plans to release it, then there's no need to name or register it. I think other societies may have stricter policies about this sort of thing, but I'm not really sure, so don't quote me. ;-)

Hi Andrew ,

More goodies ? you have been busy hmmm? very nice effort ,the article on Lisa was great ,you have done an excellent job my friend ( round of applause to you ) and congrats to you Lisa ,it was a lovely write up about you (round of applause to you ) if you guys show to many more Neo's i may have to do Neo hybrids again ,don't corrupt me to much with all those goodies ok ?
Jack

Thanks Jack, IÂm pleased you enjoyed the article on Lisa, I must say I have learnt a lot working on these hybridising articles, & it is interesting to see some similarities emerging on what drives hybridisers to do this sort of stuff.

Glad you could clarify that point Lisa, about registering those intermediate steps. The concept of just having a parent recorded under formula makes sense, & to my mind is better than just listing a parent as "unknown"or having to name it just because it was used in the process. I know that our society will accept show plants under formula, which I believe is a standard BSI rule.

Cheers, Andrew.

Oh yes, I also meant to say thanks, Andrew, for the lovely write up! I'm looking forward to reading the next in the series. Any clues as to who it might be?

Thanks to you Lisa for the info & the photos, and I must also give credit to our editor & the production team who put everything together. Next article features NZ hybridisers who will be known to GW regularsÂIÂll say no more ;-)