"Rob Halgren" wrote in message
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Not bad for a page that has been up since 1993... Maybe it was
1994... Someday I'll update it.

While updates are nice, it is good to have older pages provided the
information on them is correct. For the sort of pages of interest to me,
once written, they should only be updated to corect errors or add new
information. Being continually updated is not necessarily a good thing.

Don't know about the fertility. If
you cross too far between groups, it goes way down. Most of the brachy x
parvi stuff seems to be reasonably fertile. I guess it would depend on
how much you want. When I was doing it, I was happy to get two flasks,
and would throw the rest away. I'd keep four flasks, but only if I was
expecting Nirvana (drat, it has already been registered. Nirvana =
Alcibiades x Aureum, 1914). Like all plant breeding, the only way to
find out is to ask somebody who does a lot of it, and to do it yourself
for a few dozen years. I haven't really done any hybridizing since I
was in graduate school, and that is getting farther and farther away.
And of course get yourself a copy of Wildcatt
(http://www.wildcattdata.com/), which is both cheap and immensely useful.

I'll get Wildcatt in due course, of course.

All paphs are easy to grow... If you know how to grow them. Those
brachy and parvis that you like tend to grow a bit on the dry side, and
they would probably like to be a little cooler too. The hybrids are
easier than the species. I find emersonii and micranthum picky.
Delenatii is a weed. Malipoense is easy to grow, but not as easy to
bloom. All of the brachys are pretty easy (niveum, concolor, etc), with
the exception of bellatulum in my hands. Never had a problem with any
hybrid, except emersonii hybrids.

Terrific. I take it, from what you say, that delenatii is both a prolific
producer of seed and hardy to the point of being almost indestructible.
Does it generally pass that on to hybrids it is used to make?

It is good to know that the plants that appeal most to me are likely to be
reasonably fertile. :-)

Thanks again

Ted