It's been a long journey and I had mixed my only two batches of seed that year but here she is my first hybrid.
The whole time I thought it was Chaiten x Patricia's pride but since my only other batch of seed that year was Lionheart x ?(unreadable) it must be the latter.
(At least the flower is) a big improvement over Lion Heart, in my opinion. There's a lot of good things going on in that flower. Heavily spotted tangos seem to make good parents.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers. - Socrates
Two days later you can see it has faded but on each petal there is a highlight. On the first picture mid petal it was very golden yellow/orangy the first day and now it's more yellow which is very interesting. The camera doesn't capture it as well as in person but this will be interesting to see next year.
I think one of my seedlings does the same thing. It earned a blue ribbon at our Lily Show this year.
Right flower newly opened, left flower already 1-2 days old.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers. - Socrates
A blue ribbon? Nice Congratulations Joe! What a great beginning. But don't give up on getting Chiaten seedlings! You'll soon wonder what on earth you used to do.