Connie, I sort of knew you liked to work with Trumpets beforehand, having followed this forum for a while. I saw the ones you mention here and you should be proud! Thrilling, isn't it? I can imagine the excitement and joy you must have experienced. I appreciate your keen eye for detail too--like when you quickly saw the curl on the tepal ends of the first one I posted nicknamed Old Smokey. And keep putting those little pointers in here and there--I love 'em!

I'll put Courier in the data base tomarrow.

Rick, this is one of 'Rodriguezes' Dalmaticum babies, from many years back,.,He laughs at me when i say i have' pilososculum'?? and im so proud of it!!--A bit ;like, the 'new kid on the block' and 'master splinter'

Rooster, welcome, you remind me of me,.,.'dont know everything, but gonna give it a a push along anyway'- A shedfull of liliums here this year, and sold a good lot as well, with many prepaid bulb purchases,..next year will be even better, with the generosity of great members who sent me seeds in the past, some[seedlings] of which are the size of triffids,..,WE 'will' have a brilliant show next year..,IM waiting to smack a 'Buggy ' awesome trumpet on the bench, or a 'Halinar' purple trumpet.,.,or even a groovy pink,..,'I have 3 pink seed lots'---Things can only get better

nice pix

Now that is something I want to see.. an Awesome on the bench! A good stem would definitely be an award winner!!

Anthony: Thanks for the welcome. You bet-we're a lot alike. I can say that because I followed this forum for quite a while, reading your posts and so on before I introduced myself. The way you explain things makes it easy for me to imagine myself being right there with you. Have you done any crossing with Awesome? How many seedlings are you going to set out this Fall? I see on the West Takone/Burnie radar you've got some good rain coming your way--your lilies will be 'singing in the rain'

Buggy sold me some 'Awesome' crosses,and ,., pinks, whites,, a couple of American species crosses with 'Parryi',.,.I have about 2000 seedlings on the go, and many to pot up in about May.,.I have a 'bit of everything',..,Connie, something i'd like to see too!!!!!!--.,.Heres a white henryi

Ryirube

That yellow above is just lusceous.

A few orphan lilies of my own.





Louis XIV Open pollinated

And any lily in bloom is a favorite. But I tend to adore the underdog, the less utilized. Trumpets have gone by the wayside, in commerce, over the last few years. Am thankful for places like the Lily Garden and the Lily Nook for continuing to provide us with great trumpet lilies, especially the 4n (tetraploids). I feel that the trumpets have been replaced, so to speak by the OT lilies. While OTs are nice, much of beauty I find in the trumpet has been lost. 'Pink Jazz' would be my exception to that statement.

TRumpets and a little craziness: I go crazy over the reverses, I adore green, red and chocolate. The forms, the colors, the perfumes! Ahhhhhhh! Just talking about them, the scent almost floats into my senses!

Admittedly, I am probably the least genetic knowledgable around here. I have learned so much though, from knowing nothing about the theories in lily genetics, to knowing a bit. I will try anything to cross, haven't done any ER yet. I like pollen and will stick to that.:greengrin:

I must also welcome you Roosterlorn. We are a pretty nice bunch here. We have the love of lilies in common and learn so much from one another, as well as sharing or lily passion.

So I must officially welcome you:

I can tell it is going to be a fun summer with another lily-holic amongst us .

And another seed addict What more could we ask for??

I'm in the middle of starting seeds now. Don't know where they will go but for now the bathroom will do! (warm there).

Yep! Its going to be real interesting; especially for me because I'm here with such a nice group of folks. I can assure you, I'm in this for the 'long haul' and we'll have fun sharing our failures as well as our successes. I don't work with embryo rescue. I have a very extensive R&D ( research and development ) laboratory background but I'm not set up for that at home. Lab equipment and supplies have become terribly expensive and lab work is slow for accuracy. I would love to spend a day with Judith Freeman in her lab; I'd be right 'at home' in her lab setting. And if I had a lab set up here--I would do it! I find that often times, many people take things for granted and apperciate just the end product; a pretty flower but with me, I pretty much know all she had to do to get there--and it doesn't come cheap. So, for now anyway, I'll just stick with crossing and seeding. And, we'll have plenty to talk about this spring and summer!

Well, Judith doesn't really have a lab,. She fabricated her own "hood" to work in, consisting of trapezoidal wooden sides and glass over the down-sloping top. The shorter side of the trapezoid is the opening to work through; the whole thing isn't very big.

She just sets it on a table, wherever she is going to work, pulls up a stump (aka chair) and gets to it. I don't recall a ventilation fan either. But she is fussy about sterilization and sets up several alcohol containers to keep cutting tools sterile. It is something anyone can make. She also fabricated her own microscope - camera set up, making a connector to attach her camera to her microscope. She is very handy!

Here is a photo of a couple of tissue cultures she did at one of our lily symposiums and handed out to attendees. When I took them on they were just chopped up lily stuff sitting on top of that other stuff. So it really doesn't cost that much to do... I think culture tubes and caps are reasonably priced, then the nutrient stuff I don't know about that. But Carolina Biological is da place to get stuff you need. Commercial laminar hood not required!

I won this bulb as a novice grower, about 7 yrs ago' Davids Yellow',.,.Judith sounds a bit like me''setting up alcohol containers' next to where she is working-I wonder if hers disappear like mine do?

Speciosum

Hmmmmmm

Connie--How deep are you into embryo rescue? If you know all the basics, I'd really appreciate a step by step outline from start to finish. And then we could fill in the blank spaces as we go along. You could send it to me by tree mail if you want. I fear if we get too technical here, we might scare away NEW site visitors from asking everyday type questions.

Omitted the word NEW. added 1/31/12