Nhra_20 said:Asiatics, I'd like to bring in contrasting colors. And a blue Asiatic. lol Just kidding.
Since there is no blue gene in lilies (to my knowledge), zeroing in on hybridizing with bluish lilies may or may not be the answer. The color is achieved by an orchestrated dance of other color combinations and maybe even other factors (refractive quality of tepal surfaces?). Successful blue hybridizing might be similar to the methods that produce brown trumpet lilies. I forget which, but it is done by crossing two disparate colored lilies. (Although, I am not sure what happens when two brown lilies are crossed.)