What do you get when you have a Pink White NOID mother and Red NOID father? I think ... ugly flowers?
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| Pink White NOID Mother |
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| Red NOID Father |
I had no idea who Pink White NOID Mother had crossed with in 2010 until
last summer when late into the season a flower popped up, revealing that it was fathered by a Red NOID. It was unimpressive and the petals formed big gaps.
This late spring, seven flower stalks came up in the Pink White Mother/Red Father section of the amaryllis bed. I would like to take the opportunity to apologize for the horribly overgrown weedy appearance in the pictures. Mother Nature is laughing at me for putting a very big bed up against the fence where I can not access it from the other side to fend off the vines and weeds that are having a merry old time coming in. This bed is a loss and I'm going to be digging everything up and moving them elsewhere.
On with the pictures. And I apologize for the junk pictures as well. I was obsessing over taking pictures that I guess I didn't realize how many had turned out to be blurry or dark.
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| May 11, 2014 - PinkWhite/Red #1 |
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| May 11, 2014 - PinkWhite/Red #1 |
I have to admit that my reaction to the first flower opening was that it was ugly. I was disappointed. I was more impressed with the backs of the flowers. Why couldn't that design be on the petals?
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| May 12, 2014 - PinkWhite/Red #2 |
This seems to be a repeat from last year except this one has five petals. The other flowers on this stalk had the same 'defect' and I didn't focus on this one much.
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| May 15, 2014 - PinkWhite/Red #3 |
This one was pressed up against the fence. Lacked white. I really thought I went back to take pictures of the other flowers when it opened but it seems I totally overlooked this one.
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| May 16, 2014 - PinkWhite/Red #4 |
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| May 17, 2014 - PinkWhite/Red #4 |
#4 caught my attention. I really liked that a good amount of white was showing through in the flowers of this one. I also liked the little red marks in the throat as well.
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| May 20, 2014 - PinkWhite/Red #5 |
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| May 20, 2014 - PinkWhite/Red #5 |
The fifth was pretty much red. And then when one of the flowers opened later on, it revealed another 'gap' in the petal arrangement. Seems to 'run in the family'.
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| May 23, 2014 - PinkWhite/Red #6 |
Another one with a bit of white in the picture.
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| May 26, 2014 - PinkWhite/Red #7 |
And the final one opens.
I won't be tossing these even though I'm unimpressed with a majority of them right now. PinkWhite NOID
really hates setting pods and the fact that this is crossed, it's something different. Maybe next year I might get something more interesting from the other bulbs there.
I tried cross-pollinating PW/R#1, using Charisma selfed pollen on two flowers, and Intokazi pollen on two flowers. Charisma selfed failed. The two pods fathered by Intokazi are still there but not doing anything.
I tried PW pollen on PW/R#4. Then I took pollen from PW/R#4 and put it on PW. Ultimately my thought was that I wondered what would happen if PW/R#4 was pollinated by its mother, would the offspring bring forth more white? As for putting PW/R#4 pollen on PW, I just did that out of curiosity, to return the favor while going out there to cross flowers.
What I've noticed when I pollinated the PW/R flowers was that it shares the same 'personality trait' as the PW. It never seems to detect pollination. The flowers will stay open for days and act as if I didn't do a thing to it. And usually, when time tells, aborts all seed pods.
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