UPDATE 2010-07-17

Last pictures before summer holiday!

´Kushi Maya´, the wonderful L. nepalense hybrid with an Oriental, at its best!
No hybrids with it have been successfully produced up to now, however, I have applied pollen of different 4n OTs and hope that there might happen something........... :)

A still not really identified "miniature trumpet" from China, probably a first flowering L. regale or so:

´Condor´, a rather nice, but not very spectacular OT.

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I have already performed a lot of interesting crossings this year, a lot with the different Tangos, Trumpets and OTs, but also with L. taliense and L. pumilum, several of them look very promising by having nice capsules. L. taliense seems to accept virtually any (Asiatic) pollen (however, I do not know if it has a tendency to apomixys?), and L. pumilum shows good qualities as pollen donor. So, I have a large capsule on ´Dani Afrin´, although this cultivar is said not to be fertile either as pollen donor or as acceptor.

On the other hand, all crossings performed with L. nepalense, at current, seem to have failed, so this species appeares to be very difficult as crossing partner (as seed pod carrier as well as as pollen donor).

Yesterday I have also made some crossings on L. henryi and L. rosthornii, and after my holiday there will appear some late OTs which will give some more possibilities.

I guess, in summery, the very hot weather of the last 3 weeks (always around 30-35°C) might have encouraged the one or other crossing too and will do since it should stay hot during the course of the next weeks.............

HAVE A NICE REMAINING JULY! :)