More tigers! Exciting!
Hi Dick, welcome to the lily forum and thanks for sharing. Can you tell us more? How long have you grown them? Were they raised from seed? I'd love to know where in Japan they came from; if there are wild populations there? Do you have more than one yellow clone? Maybe we could trade pollen to get good seed set on our plants?
It's really fascinating how the lack of spotting in the orange form occurs with a lack of pigmentation in the whole plant.
Also, I'm curious. What is it like growing lilies in such a hot climate as Hong Kong? I didn't think it would be possible to keep lilies happy there, but it looks like you have a few and must be a bit of a keen collector at least!
Connie, I brought in this year's pollen but didn't dry it long enough and it moulded.
I also collected all the aerial bulbils before I realised this one seedling was the real thing - so they were all mixed up together! So I have to get it right on both counts next year. I'm hoping the bulb's still healthy after the last month of exceptionally wet weather!
Rick and Joshua, I'm hoping another of the unflowered seedlings turns out to be immaculatum too, so I can set some seed. If not, I'll use pollen from as many of the spotted yellow tigers as I can on the spotless plant, in the hope that one or more of them are recessive for lack of spots so that a percentage of the seedlings will be spotless.... Might take a while!
I almost posted about it as soon as it flowered, but then life was so busy, I fell ill, life etc... It's due to bad gardening weather that I've been processing my pics lately and got round to it. It's been like having a tremendously happy secret! 'Normal' people just wouldn't appreciate how special it is!!!
So thanks everyone for being 'not normal' and for all the thumbs and acorns.
