This is so hard to write. All these beautiful images are all I have left of 75% or better of my mature hippie collection. Hippeastrum Mosaic Virus has hit my collection and hit it hard. All of the plants that were in the basement (wintered there) are infected, including 2 different sets of seedlings. Only a few plants remain unaffected, but away from the new babies.
This is what is left and appears to be healthy:
- H.papilio
- SANTIAGO
- EXOTIC STAR - 2 PLUS SMALL PUPS
- RED LION &
- MINERVA (I suspect they may also be infected, so they are away from the others)
- GREEN DRAGON (actually two plus one has 10 or so pups)
- LIMA, but it hasn't been growing really well so I will have to watch it closely.
- BABY DOLL
- H. roseum
- APHRODITE - 2 babies
I have kept LITTLE STAR in spite of the virus and hope to be able to self it or cross it onto something so I can grow a clean population of it from seeds or at leas a cross.
The following crosses are doing well:
These are all miniature or Cybister type Crosses -
- BABY DOLL X ESTELLA (3)
- EXOTIC START X CYBISTER ROSE (4)
- RUBY MEYERS X papilio
- CYBISTER ROSE X CHICO
- LA PAZ X SANTIAGO (3)
- H papilio X CHICO (12)
- LUNA X self (12)
- CHICO X EVERGREEN (3)
- LEMON STAR X self (1)
- EVERGREEN X TIRAMISU (6)
- JUNGLE STAR X EVERGREEN (4)
These will be full, round flowers and BIG!
- MOONLIGHT X CHARISMA (8)
- CHARISMA X MOONLIGHT (5)
I was also fortunate in getting two huge seed pods on MATTERHORN, so hopefully they will finish ripening as a cut flower in water and I can try to grow some of them out. with the exception of H. papilio and Santiago, I have none of the parents.
Later I will post a list of what was lost. If I hadn't found that Amaryllis can grow happily with 4 to 6 hours of direct sun I wouldn't have discovered the virus as it doesn't show itself on plants grown indoors or in full shade.
