After years of work and lots of $$$, I have 1 ER lily baby ready to bloom! Taking guesses on the color. Should open in the next week.
(It is possible this would work as a normal seed, you never know.)
Socrates x Ortega

Please explain ER. Thanks!

Good for you Andrew. Color guess? Mainly white with a hue of yellow.

Tracey you are probably right. It is hard to get any other colors when dealing with tetras. I would be happy with a soft pink...

Let's hope it brings a pleasant surprise! I had my first oriental bloom from seed last year...go figure it would be pure white! I'm hoping some new stock coming in will help me to achieve some tetra pinks! One can only hope....

Mags, what kind of tet pinks are you getting (Oriental, Asiatic???).

Andrew, I'm looking forward to your ER bloom. We will all love it no matter what. You have really persevered with the ER to get to this point.

Polly, ER is short for Embryo Rescue. It is like tissue culture, but uses excised embryos from the seed. It is particularly used for "wide crosses" between lily divisions. For example, an oriental lily X Asiatic lily.

Thanks Connie!

I'm looking forward to seeing it also.

I have 'Angel Gabriel' and 'Griesbach Tetra Pink' that I may cross with each other as well as some other OTs, mainly white ones. I seem to do better with those than asiatics, at least when it comes to growing them out. All I know is that I am destined to see pink at some point in this process. I love the pinks! It just has to happen. I have in my mind a nice OT with the beautiful spotting of Lisa's orientals paired with the pink of something like 'Maywood' or 'Socrates'. It has to have spots AND pink, that's the dream and I'm sticking to it

Hmmm... guessing, guessing... same as Mag's (white w/ yellow) but with a pink flush.

OOOO it's opening!

Ya know, I was JUST thinking about that. .... Where's the pic?

I'm sure he's just taunting us until he gets a shot in its full glory.

How did you know?

Have you pried open the petals like I might?

I gave them a little help since indoor lighting doesn't open them like the Sun.

I used a hairdryer on low if things weren't opening fast enough for the flower show...

I know, cuz I'd do the same.

Good thing I'm not the only one......

No matter what it looks like, aren't you pretty proud of your success? You should be

Well here it is. Not the most stunning but, nice to see some pinkish red. It is hard to get a nice sun shot on the face since it is pointing down.

Well, you certainly got some pink, so I lose. The coloration is nice, sort of blushy. Gotta feel good about that success. Very pretty.