(Left) Anthurium Red Crystallinum "Tezula Dreamweaver" (Right) Anthurium Red Crystallinum "Tezula Necromancer"
This cross (and the reverse cross) was made in 2021 with the first plant being sold on August 21, 2022. If we had known just how good these seedlings were going to turn out we probably would have done things a bit different! To this day, it is still the most requested plant here at Tezula.
So, when will we have more you ask, the sad answer is we never will.
In early 2022 we received an inquiry on the availability of "Tezula Necromancer" and as we were waiting for seeds to ripen on the plant we advised "Not For Sale." We did not expect that conversation to go any further but much to our surprise, moment later there was a follow up with an offer which could not be refused, and the plant was sold on the condition we could harvest the seeds from it first. We felt "Tezula Dreamweaver" was the plant we wanted to focus on and that is exactly what we did.
After the berries were harvested ("Tezula Necromancer" x Self), we packed the plant up and shipped it to its new home. In January 2023 the buyer contacted us asking if we had any more divisions which surprised us and we advised no, they had purchased the only plant in existence. we were heartbroken to hear the buyer had gone away for the holidays and something with their greenhouse climate controls malfunctioned. They returned home after the holidays to find every plant in their greenhouse dead.
The germination rate of the "Tezula Necromancer" x self was awful (yup, it happens to the best of us) and we were really not impressed that much with what we saw, and sold most of those plants as regular Red Crystallinum. We only kept one plant which to be quite honest was really boring until last year, when it suddenly, quite out of the blue produced its first leaf that was outstanding, so we gave it the name Red Crystallinum "Tezula Necromancer's Daughter". We were quite excited to start breeding with it, until the next leaf came out and it was sooooooo boring that we scrapped the idea of breeding with it, but perhaps we should try and breed with it to see if it awakens anything dormant in its progeny.
So what was up with that one leaf wonder? Your guess is as good as ours, but it is no secret the intensity of emergent color is influenced by growing conditions. The warmer the grow area, the less intense the colors are and the variance between day and night temperatures also plays a huge role, amongst a slew of other things to consider.
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