Both Brian Bergman and I have got seeds when using it as pollen donor. I used the pollen on a 4n trumpet, Brian on a L. lankongense hybrid.

That is good information to know, Øystein. I hope someone here on this site tries it out.

100 is normal here for July and August, but it started in May before lily season starts here and just keeps getting worse. It was a record setting June here, and it was a record setting May in Alaska, which is currently on fire. There is just about ZERO humidity (NO dew) and usually NO breeze, makes for some very weak stems. We are rather windy this season, makes the wildfires burn better and blows the smoke right to me.
When I first came here it was unusually cold and wet in the spring and summer, tolerable for me. And my precious and expensive VooDoo and Cobra lilies were in pots and did fine, now most are dead. Some came up this "spring" and promptly keeled over. Some are just now coming up and all have some shade, they are just reluctant to emerge into this hell on earth, happened this way ever since I got a yard to put them into.
So my short list of what did WELL in 100 degrees or damn near every day is Momentous, Lankon, Santa Rosa (no pink in heat), Fata Morgana (the only double I have that stays double here), Chaiten, Blood Tiger, Black Spider, L. henryi, Royal Sunset, and Red Velvet. Everything else including trumpets and OT's has fried, some have died or the blooms burn off the same day they opened. The ones that get shade or part shade are OK. But due to the "spring" weather typical here (1 week of winter, then one week of summer and repeat over and over and over again) there are many aborted or deformed flower buds. And most of them are stunted due to the heat hitting early. The Martagons that bloomed early were fine, but now the leaves are burning and many aborted buds since it was too hot too soon.
I will be planting more trees when the weather allows me to!

I ordered three from H.W.Hyde. they are light colored.



I ordered another from the Lily Nook. It is still relatively light, but significantly darker than the first three.

Is that a coincidence?

grapus said:Both Brian Bergman and I have got seeds when using it as pollen donor. I used the pollen on a 4n trumpet, Brian on a L. lankongense hybrid.

that is very interesting

the buds on lankon have just turned downward this am.
so hopefully it will bloom sometime soon.....

My trumpets are way off blooming here yet......

Now that we're here 3 years later, I can report that Lankon seems to be happy in the worst soil that I have: gravelly and extremely alkaline with the pH near 9. After the first years' growth of 3', it has consistantly been at a height from 5' to 6'.

What's the most buds anyone has gotten? I think I have the record at 20! Lol

I doubt mine are anywhere near that!

pardalinum said:That is good information to know, Øystein. I hope someone here on this site tries it out.

I know I will! It's also really keen to set pods. Two years running I've had good-looking pods on it, but all chaff. I wonder if embryo rescue would result in live seedlings.

I'm amazed it does well it such alkaline soil. Indestructable! And it noses through so early. Middle of winter here and it's already on the move.

Silverlake115 said:

I ordered three from H.W.Hyde. they are light colored.



I ordered another from the Lily Nook. It is still relatively light, but significantly darker than the first three.

Is that a coincidence?

Interesting!

I bought five bulbs from H.W.Hyde & Son last spring. They were also light coloured. To be fair last summer was extremely warm and sunny (for us in Sweden, that is) so that would perhaps account for the light colour. I have a faint memory of a stem that bloomed much later, when the temperatures were lower and I believe that one had a slightly darker colour, although I'm not completely sure. They haven't bloomed yet this year, so if the cold weather stays, perhaps they will all be darker this year.

dellac said:I wonder if embryo rescue would result in live seedlings.

For any seed to be embryo rescued, of course it must have a viable embryo to start. These embryos should be visible by normal candling when dry. If all you've been finding is chaff in your pods, there wouldn't have been any embryos to rescue, anyway.

Aha, that makes sense. Now I wish I still had the 'chaff' to check!

I am waiting for Lankon to bloom and went out this morning to check...but I have a silly question.....
What is Lankon?? what classification is the bulb?? just curious if it is trumpet or what or??

It's not really anything but a cross between two species. Sometimes people try to cram lilies into certain categories. Take for instance 'Black Beauty'. It's parents are speciousum rubrum and henryi. People call it an OT or oriental trumpet. There is no trumpet in its background at all. Granted henryi is classified in Division 6 which is basically all trumpets and henryi but it clearly isn't a trumpet. I think it would be best to call 'Lankon' a longiflorum hybrid.

Della & I were very lucky to receive a visit from,
' Judith Freeman in January of this year at Claremont Flower Show -Australia. A moment I will remember for ever... We discussed in depth , Lankon. . Judith explained , ''the colour variations are to do with , how & where it is grown''.. The very dark Lankon I grew ,under dense Snowball tree foliage.. The 1/2 black ,1/2 white, with a defining line , I grew at the back of the house , with only morning sun.. So I have scattered them , 'Here/There & everywhere this year' !

Now that would have been cool to meet her
Hoping Lankon blooms here soon.....we are in another heat wave so maybe soon

Anthony I don't believe she is the creator of Lankon. I believe it is Mak of holland. She doesn't even sell it so I doubt it's hers but I do believe what she says about it!

Thanks for the correction, Joe. . I would not want to offend Johann..

It's not him either, I believe it's his family in the Netherlands.