They’re actually fairly easy to work with so long as you have the patience to wait for the pods to mature and there’s a fairly active community of AV hybridisers due to that and their high mutation rate. If you’d be interested in trying some I can put some aside from my next lot of seedpods when / if they mature – I know you like having a go at different things =)

It had never occurred to me to try & fertilize my AVs! I knew they could be raised from seed but it’s something I’ve never done.

I read your pages on hybridizing AVs & I could hardly leave it, I found it fascinating! I’ve been hybridizing Amaryllis using pollen sent to me by sgardener from the USA. Some seedpods are developing nicely. Though I will have to wait rather longer than you to see the results of my crossings, 4 years at least! Anybody interested in helping me raise them???

@avisrapax this is amazing! SneIrish I was going to mention how interested you would be in this and here you are! Not surprised!

I have to share I am not good with AV’s. I have two. One in a commercial pot for AV’s and one in a typical clay pot. The one in the clay pot is doing better and they haven’t bloomed in a LONG time. I need to do something better. The one in the commercial pot is stunted and stubborn to live.