Yesterday I reported that following tips on this thread I went with blazing and earth instead of my blazing and mud, and I landed a solstice on epic. Well, my blazing and earth finished breeding, and I now have my beautiful egg hatching. I decided to reverse my breeds, so I then put the same blazing and earth in the normal cave, and the time reveals another blazing. That's okay because when it hatches it will sell for $1million. I then decided to put blazing and dodo on epic, and you would not believe it - another solstice. 2 in 2 days. No speeding up with gems, but i will be able to breed now and get a display egg. Hope that helps someone else. Yay, doing the dragonvale happy dance again, and again and again.