Dari milis lain. Penulisnya lulusan Hukum Inernational. Bekerja sampai pensiun di perusahaan Jepang. Menguasai bahasa Jepang. Hebatnya dari hobynya, dan dari belajar dari temannya, ahli penyilangan Prof. Greg Hambali, dia berhasil melakukan penyilangan yang dikira orang tak mungkin, dan karena itu dia memperoleh International Award. Di Indonesia ada banyak orang berbakat, tetapi situasinya tidak mendorong orang biasa untuk berprestasi luar biasa. Sayang. Tentang Prof. Greg Hambali, orang sederhana, yang suka rela mengajarkan pengetahuan dan pengalamannya : https://money.kompas.com/read/2008/04/09/14331147/greg.hambali.sang.penghulu.tanaman.hias.?page=all
Dear Thomas, Attached (11310207) – yet unnamed) must be the most fragrant hybrid rainlilies in the world. I do believe that as I have created it by cross breeding between the fragrant Z. citrina (saffron yellow color) with another fragrant Z. El Cielo (light pink) from Macchu Picchu. We could predict that its progeny will become fagrant, but I have never known on how the saffron yellow colored zephyranthes cross bred with the light pink could have resulted with the progeny of red picotee with white base. If we would like to smell the fragrant of both parent stocks, then we need to place them non our nose. However, we could smell the fragrant of the some flowers of the hybrid from as far as 2 meters. That have inspired myself to create rainlilies that could contribute to perfume industry. However, up till now that dream and the dream of creating of blue colored hybrids are still remain dreams while I am old alrealy and ailing. However, I do believe that a dream could be handed down from generation to generation. I tried to consult John Mason who has created blue carnation by gen splicing, but he advised me that it is not possible to create blue rainlilies by gene splicing because the pH of its petal is low. I am a stubborn man and do not believe that before trying myself. In the past the late Dr. Thad M. Howard of San Antonio, Texas, the Grand Old Man known as rainlilies guru also advised me that I could not create hybrid rainlilies with the characteristics not in existence in the wild. That theory is proofed not true, because by cross breeding I have created multicolor (after 17 years of cross breeding) and double petalled hybrids (after 22 years of cross breeding) which both are not exist in the wild that the International Bulb Society awarded myself with the Herbert Medal in 2007. Please do not believe that its needs so long time for such a simple achievement, because I didn’t do that so intensively as at that time I have been working or DENSO Group, a Japanese automotive manufacturing company. Rainlilies consists of 3 families of bulbous flowers, namely zephyranthes, habranthus and cooperia the habitat of which is in South, Central America and Southern part of the US. There are no double petalled nor multicolored zephyranthes in the wild , and those could only be achieved as the result of cross breeding, or maybe also by gen spicing. They are called rainlilies because for flowering thei are triggered by rainfalls. But although lest effective we could also trigger flowering by watering. Although the habitat of rainlilies inh the tropics, it could still survive in the 4 seasoned countries like Japan and China where in Japan its has its own name: “Tamasudare” but I forgot its name in China. Atttached soft copies of my writings published in the ”Herbertia”, the yearbook of the International Bulb Society. Best regards, Fadjar https://www.facebook.com/fadjarmarta
