New Alocasia hybrid coming along.

I am pretty positive this is a new hybrid the mother plant has yet to self seed and I removed the top portion of the spadix fairly early to pollinate other plants. This maybe a first at least it is a first for me. The cross is as follows my hybrid Macrorrhiza X Longloba which I have been calling Macroloba is the mother which was then crossed with Calidora a older LarriAnn cross. So the off spring of this should be very interesting. The Macroloba hybrid looks like a giant longloba growing to 4 to 5 feet tall. It seems to hold all the longloba traits other than size vigor and possibly hardiness. I have been trying to produce a really colorful longloba type hybrid with large colorful upright leaves. Maybe this cross will result in such a hybrid. Here is a picture of the berries still on the flower and tagged.

I look forward to seeing the results of that cross. I have a mature plant from a similar cross, though not done by me, but by a hybridizer in Pennsylvania who does orchids mostly, but dabbled in Alocasias a little. You might remember seeing it sitting by my largest Sarawakensis Dark.

I've also been trying to achieve a colorful upright large hybrid; my latest is the A. x sanderidora (A. odora x A. sanderiana 'nobilis'); you saw the seedling pots when you came by but I've separated them and they have grown significantly since you saw them. Of course, there is also the A. x reginora (A. odora x A. reginula); they have grown a lot as well but I have not yet separated them.
Here's the link for the Sanderidoras:
http://aroidiaresearch.org/sndrodor.htm

At least one of them has really deep purple reverses to the leaves, and I'm pleased with the silver venation showing so far.

I am suprized non of them have pinnatified leaves I am guessing that is a trait that is not very common and easily lost in hybrids much like your Portei and Odora crosses non that I have seen really have deep groves into the leaves. I am suprized they look very similar to my Macrorrhiza X Amazoinica hybrids. It should be interesting to see what they turn into as they mature.

I have one seedling here that is a first for me and I am pretty sure it is doomed to die. It is a Macdek Macrorrhiza X frydek crossed with borneo giant. All the seedlings looked good and healthy but this one has been a solid white though the others were colored this one with the same light levels and all seems to be a pure albino. I was hoping a new leaf or two would show up variegated or green but so far still solid white. I don't think it will survive once it uses up its stored food supply for the seed. Have you ever had anything like this before in your breeding??

The plant is larger now this was when I first potted it up. It now has 1 or 2 more leaves. I dont see how it will survive unless it starts getting some green on it soon.

So far I've not seen any pure white progeny resulting from any cross I have done; I have seen some fleeting variegation in my recent cross between A. odora and A. advincula, in which the first and/or second seedling leaf showed some white variegation much like the variegated A. macrorrhizos. However, so far they have all gone green so the variegated cells must not have been in areas of the meristematic tissue that would continue producing them in future leaves.

About that white plant you have there, I'm amazed that it hasn't died already, as the stored food in the seed must have long since been used up. If you can, post a current picture so we can see the progression.

Concerning the pinnatifid leaf divisions as a characteristic of hybrid progeny, I am sure it would come out more in the F2 generation, but with the Portora I was unable to produce F2 progeny, and suspect it will be so with this hybrid as well. Now, the new hybrid I have between the Borneo Giant and the Portei may very well turn out to be fertile to the F2 (both parents have what I consider to be the characteristic A. macrorrhizos type of inflorescence, as did the VangiGo), in which case I will be able to bring that characteristic back out in the F2 progeny.

This is fascinating. Definitely post additional pics as you both have them!
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Brian,
Any updated pictures on this one?

I have many of my plants at a friends nursery who has heated cement slabs he is growing out all my seedlings for this past season. I should have more pics by spring that is if this one made it or not.

Wow, heated cement slabs? Do they put some kind of electric cable in them before pouring the cement? I'm curious, it would make a nice area to have something like that in part of my greenhouse (I don't have yet)... I put most of my hibiscus's on pallets to keep them off my cold cement basement floor, but it sounds like something I'd like to have when I do get my dream/green house.. how's your weather down that way this winter, Brian? We had utility trucks up here from Kentucky helping get my little town back with power after the ice storm.

Brian, did this little guy make it?

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unfortunatly this one did not survive. I figured so sense its lack of green.