@cwhitt - I'm not an expert with amaryllis, either. I do know that daylily pollen stores in the freezer for a year or more (proof is in the pudding, I used last years pollen to pollinate some this year and the pods took), so I froze the amaryllis pollen from last December and I'm hoping to try it this year. The information about papilio tending to abort pods is helpful. That's precisely what it did to me and it sounds like I need to figure out who has had luck with it. Most importantly, I need to know if it is triploid, tetraploid, etc...so that I can research possible other amaryllis to cross it with. I believe all of the others I have are the same ploidy as each other (not sure what type, though) and that they are all either offshoots or crosses of one another because they all came from the same, original pot several years ago.
I've forgotten a lot about amaryllis genetics since I was doing the research last year, but that's a project for the fall. Right now I'm just trying to get everything done for the summer/fall season that I need to get done.
