Ok here is my first cross to bloom. Not much different from the pod parent. The reverse of the seedling is actually quite light orange-ish, totally different from the pod parent. Nothing spectacular, but it is my first baby and less than a year old :*)
Andy
Ok, I'm a bit slow so let me see if I understand. Are all three seedlings? or is the first red one the pod parent and the orange is the pollen parent and the third is your seedling?
Diann
Upper left pod, upper right pollen parent.
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Yeppers, I read it right, and I think your seedling is really nice. :) I really like it. Can't wait to see your other crosses. :)
Diann
Congratulations! I think I like the baby better than either parent.
Yeah, I think that seedling is pretty special. :)
...the hilighted center and all those cute little speckles.. way cool!!!!
There are 3 or 4 others from this cross that will bloom soon. It is interesting to see how the traits show up in the kids. I think the pollen parent is orange pixie, not sure though.
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Oh was that green X there before... I just noticed it LOL.
Gee, I don't feel so bad at not seeing the "BIG GREEN X" either. I was so busy looking at the lilies that I totally missed it. Of course, I'm like that with a lot of things. LOL
Diann
This is funny. I was trying to decide what color to make it so it would be seen better.
Well maybe hot pink against the orange.....
Geez, I didn't even know what you were talking about and had to go back to check. Optical delusion?
No calamities there, just sweet (really sweet) success! Congratulations!
What are you crossing it with?
Rick I put the foil on until its siblings open. I want to see what happens with the F2 generation. Apparently more recessive traits come out in that generation.
A smashing scenario, Andrew.
I like the seedling much better than either parent too. Andrew, you do great work. What a pretty lily. Are you naming it?
Probably not, but ya never no. Maybe the rest of my crosses will be mud color :*)
Very nice outcome.....can't wait to see the others!
Here are the 3 kids together. Quite different...
I love the frontrunner, second prize goes to the one on the left. Nice work, intercessor.
All very nice. Just shows how much fun you can have in the garden! It's not just pulling weeds, you know.
I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity of the F1 generation. I was expecting more uniformity. What is interesting about the upper right one is that the color pattern is the same as the bottom one except the orange is replaced with white. The two top lilies seem to have inherited wide petals from the orange pollen parent. I like the glow of the mellon colored one and not a hint of red. I think there is a couple more that will bloom yet from this cross.
My Viva cross with Viva as the pod parent is getting large seed pods :*) Here is to hoping for live seed.
88 crosses with more to go :*O
Andy
Beginners luck or pure skill - only time will tell. But no one can deny the beauty you are creating. I too am surprised by the diversity of the F1 cross. On the other hand (and unlike species lily crosses), you are dealing with hybrids as parents. They would already have a plethora of hidden and unhidden genes, so you are working with a larger pool of possibilities to begin with.
Bravo !
Yes that would indeed be the case Rick. I was thinking in simple dominant, recessive traits. I forgot these would have who knows what genes lurking in the chromosomes from crosses long, long ago.
Maroon x Yellow
I will post regardless of what I think of them. It is a curious thing the color combos that come out though.
Oh I like that wavy edge! Very nice!
Man, you're really doing a great job! :) Keep them coming!
This past weekend our North Star Lily Society had its Lily Show and garden tour. I was talking to Tim Zimmerman, the current president. He told me about his first lily hybridizing experience. He entered his first creation in the show and he got a blue ribbon! Then he brought his Mom to see it, and it was gone. It was right there, on table number X, and it was no where to be found. Not being familiar with how the show works, he thought someone had stolen it. Then someone pointed out that it was on a different table now, you know, the one reserved for the . . . . . . . er . . uh . . . . . . . . GRAND CHAMPIONS!
You're on the way, Andrew.
This years show was noticeably smaller, about 150+ stems and another 25 or so arrangements. With the Cockers no longer bringing their 100+ stems, and Frans Officer's lilies eaten by deer, it was still quite well done. Hans Hanson brought a Lilium nepalense, the first one I have ever seen in real life. Very elegant, and his form had the greatest maroon to white ration of any photo I have seen. His form was also somewhat similar to the shape of Wallaby's heavenly majoense, with petals heavily curled at the ends. For me, it was the highlight of the show.
That sounds like a lot of fun, Lefty.
Just beautiful, please keep us posted.
Hmmm, Maroon x Orange = White?
It can happen. Lilies not only have color genes, experts theorize that many have color blocking genes (for lack of the better explanation). Some hybridizers have crossed two white lilies and obtained colored progeny. Not that white isn't a color, but that other colors in the progeny weren't apparent in the ancestry. The theory is that the color blocking is no longer active, and so the colors are expressed.
