We have been crossing peach flowering clivia only for the last four years with our first peach flowered in September 2004.  However, we have been acquiring peach cross seed from breeders in Japan and South Africa since 1999 and over that time have accumulated a lot of pigmented based seedlings.  

All of the peach flowering clivia we have were derived from peach split for yellow clivia. That does not mean that all of the plants we have are peach split for yellow. Genetically some will be double factor peach (true breeding) whilst others will be single factor peach. Some believe double factor peach may be distinguished from single factor peach by colour - single factor may be lighter in colour whilst double factor may be darker in colour. We have noted issues in crossing double factor peaches including siblings with pigmented bases. Some pigmented based peach crosses may flower peach whilst others may flower pastel, apricot or orange.

Crossing single factor peaches with other single factor peaches or with double factor peaches may result in higher percentages of unpigmented siblings - these may be either peach flowering (single and double factor) or yellow flowering. Some breeders may cross their peaches over orange flowering clivia rather than yellow and then cross the next generation - peach split for orange, in order to guarantee that 100% of the unpigmented siblings would flower peach but this process can result in high levels of pigmented siblings which may flower orange and this can become expensive. We do not use this practice.

In 2007 we used GHOPEA07001 as the pollen parent extensively to improve the quality of peach flower types.  A picture of GHOPEA07001 is shown below.  The genetic background of this clivia is a Nakamura Ghost x Peach and it flowered peach!  Other crosses from this combination flowered apricot in 2007. Another that we used in 2006 anf 2007 is "Good Peach" which behaves like a double factor peach - darker flowers and depending on what it is crossed with can throw percentages of pigmented based seedlings.

Because good quality peach flowering clivia are still considered rare, we have been crossing peach flowering clivia over our best yellow flowering clivia for the last four years and would do so in 2008.

GHOPEA07001                                                    Good Peach