Re: Hosta Questions!
That's why I said "doubt" and that it can't hurt to try. One of my
favorite breeders is a streaked form of Obscura, which gives me very few
seeds but the coloring is sometimes very interesting. That said, I see
very little interesting in Green Gold from a breeding standpoint. No
doubt that its possible you could get a good seedling, but the odds are
far better using other plants. I doubt that most people have the
opportunity to grow as many seedlings as I do, so it would seem to be more
logical to go with the odds.
Chick
halinar@open.org wrote:
> Chick:
>
> >I doubt very much that it would be of much use as a breeder, but it
> >can't hurt to try.
>
> One thing I have learned not only from hostas, but also lilies and
> daylilies, is that you can't always tell what is going to be a good
> breeder or not. I've had plants that I though were really good plants
> and I didn't get anything decent out of them. I've made some lily
> crosses were I wondered after I harvested the seed why I ever made the
> cross in the first place, only to discover that some of my most
> interesting germplasm has come from those crosses. Sometimes a few
> recessive genes can make a really good plant look poor, but you will
> never know it until you grow some progenies from it. One nice thing
> about hostas is that you can start your selection process when in
> weeks of when they germinate rather then having to wait maybe three
> years before they bloom to tell if they are worth anything.
>
> Joe Halinar
>
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