I love those pictures, Lorn. It's like seeing a postcard from family on holiday! Budderlord always brings the sunshine wherever he goes.
Fingers crossed that botrytis doesn't turn out to be a chronic problem for him. Foliage is usually quite clean here. (In fact, the stem and foliage are big reasons I like him so much.)
The original bulb of Budderlord has become quite large now, I recently planted it out in the garden here, along with a bunch of cloned babies. Sending autumn scales north, in fact, turned out to be preferable to sending small bulbs across hemispheres. By the time a small bulb had recovered from the season-reversal and got into the new rhythm, scale bulbs had grown and were (I think, Lorn can confirm or otherwise?) doing just as well. It would certainly result in more healthy bulbs in the same time frame.
Hopefully Budderlord and co. can help provide some hybridising entertainment this summer while your trumpets are taking an involuntary rest, Lorn. When I saw Casper I thought I just had to try for a cross - even though it turns out Casper is (almost?) infertile. Budderlord has a few kids floating around here now, and as a pollen parent that super colour usually has a strong influence. I've found though that with Fiesta-type bloodlines and backcrossing that it often turns out brassy, sometimes copper/almost green, which isn't always nice... like this:
And I don't even know what to think of this!
But it can also produce offspring like this:
Outcrossed to a dilute yellow (Sweet Surrender), there were lots of these colours:
It would be fun to see what you get, Lorn, with your crosses. The last couple of years I've used Budderlord as pod parent instead... waiting now to see some results.
And thanks Joe! Glad you like Budderlord.
Thanks Lorn and Ramona for hunting up Casper. We all know how hard it is to catch a ghost!
