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In response to: 2019 Lycoris Seedling Development - One Year Update

This weekend will be three months since I posted this blog, so I thought I would provide some more pictures. These seedlings are in a temperature-controlled room receiving 16 hours of light every day. I can’t guarantee that these conditions are ideal. If I had my “druthers", the light cycle would have mimicked winter-time day lengths, and I would have kept the room cooler. It never got above 68°F and never below 34°F. You will notice a combination of more seedlings and also spent seedlings, but what might be harder to see is that I’m still seeing new emergence, though the surge in emergence was in January. Most of these seedlings are spring-foliage Lycoris, so the new emergence is actually what I would have expected from most of it. (Click picture to see larger image)

In response to: Nursery Trials & Forward Thinking!

Hi..I like your topic.I think you have done a lot of research on it and wwrote this informative blog for those who love gardening, I am ownerof Himalayan Gardens and I also supply flower bulbs.The tips which you have given I will surely work on it.

Thanks

In response to: Lycoris Breeding: A Short Example on Outcomes

thanks a lot for this article. usefull

In response to: Things Happening At Bulbmeister Nursery

At this point, things are not looking so good for a special sale in October/November. Weather has been so wet, that it is difficult to imagine ground will get dry enough to make new beds. I’ll keep my eyes open for opportunities, nonetheless.

In response to: Lycoris Breeding: A Short Example on Outcomes

Jackie,

I’ve not come across any basic plant breeding books, but one can learn more than they ever needed to know from Allard’s, “Principles of Plant Breeding", if you can find a copy. You might find what you are looking for, though, at the website entitled, “Plant Breeding as a Hobby". I’ll post it on my Links page.

In response to: Lycoris Breeding: A Short Example on Outcomes

Do you know of any gardening books with how to breed plants? This post was very interesting to me, and I’d like to learn more!
-Jackie

In response to: Lycoris Breeding: A Short Example on Outcomes

Nice post and you have some great tips and advice at your site about flowers…

In response to: Lycoris Breeding: A Short Example on Outcomes

Very inspiring article that fueled my creaticity. I am very familiar with crossing tomatoes, but I hve atually never done it flowers. Looks like it will be an interesting season ;-)

Thanx for the article.