Amaryllis blooms

It's the amaryllis season now. All my mature plants have been blooming since February.
This week, I have these showing off their pretty faces in my living room.
Candy floss

Pink salmon

Exotica x Dancing queen

And some new hybrids whose parents are unknown to me. I grew them from seeds given by friends from Gardenweb.

I like amaryllis for their easy-to-grow and gorgeous blooms.

Generation next

My early attempts at cross-pollination on my amaryllis have shown some results.

I have made records of the crosses so hopefully, if these seed pods ripen, I will know exactly what parentage the seeds have.

It's so much fun and rewarding doing all this.

Amaryllis parade

Half of my seedlings from Ann has now showed off their beautiful face. So far, this season, I have 8 new crosses blooming for me. To my best guessing, they are crosses made from Charisma, Exotica, Bolero back in 2007. They have shown very interesting traces of their parentage.

From possibly Charisma as one of the parents, I have this bloom. Notice the picotee edge and tiny dots on the blooms.

This one, however, clearly shows traces of Exotica and Charisma. What present here are the visible veins, a characteristic of Exotica and the dots of Charisma.

In the same direction, from Exotica and an unknown parent, I have these.

And maybe from Boleto, I have this, with the trace of a pink on the petals.

Cindee hint that one of the parents for this bloom could be Pink Diamond.

A part from those visible traces of parentage, I have these two reds.

Out of these blooming amaryllis, I have also made a few crosses. It's so much fun to make all these cross-pollinations.

Two more new amaryllis blooms

I'm so happy with my amaryllis bulbs this season, I have many blooms everywhere!

Here're two more new crosses I grown from seeds given by members of Gardenweb Hippeastrum forum.
This one shows some traces of Exotica and perhaps Orange Sovereign.

And this one?

Even without proper ID/parentage, they are my treasures. Many thanks to Ann/Elizabeth for all these lovely blooms.

Another new amaryllis bloom - Exotic Star

One of the bublets Maria gave me in 2008 is blooming for the first time in my care - the Exotic Star. So it roughly takes around 2.5 years from bublet to bloom.

I really like the bold color and especially the veins, very striking indeed.

A member from Garden Web mentioned that Exotic Star is a hybrid of Papillio, and it is difficult to pollinate it.

I'm going to cross ES with other blooms I'm having at the moment. Hope I might have some beautiful cross in the future.

Amaryllis blooms

I grow these plants from seeds given by friends on the Garden Web. They are more than 3 years old and had bloomed since last season. Unfortunately, except for 3 of them in pots, most had their scapes eaten by snails and slugs in the garden so I couldn't see their bloom.

This season, after seeing them losing all their leaves, I digged them up and potted them in containers to safe-guard them. Now two of them are blooming beautifully.

These were crosses made by Elizabeth and Cindee. When I moved them back to VN, I lost all their tags so now I don't know which is which.
Luckily, Elizabeth hinted of Charisma for the first plant and Cindee hinted Pink diamond for the second plant. Though not a complete parentage, I now know something about these beautiful bloom. I'll name them in Vietnamese basing on these hints.
I still have some more bulbs that will bloom soon. It's now Amaryllis season here.

Amaryllis Misty - from Royal Colors

My Misty bulb has opened its first bloom today.

There are two scapes on the bulb.

I hope to see all the buds open soon.
On another note, both of the other bulbs that have already bloomed, are now coming up with a third scape!
So much the better!