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- Subject: Donald's AB Seedling
- From: "* H* <b*@aol.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 20:19:00 -0400
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Well, Donald. I'll concede it isn't the most beautiful
thing I've ever seen, but ol' "flu shot" is blooming for me and I like it. While
quite a few of those anticipated AB stalks were destroyed in the fan from late
freezes, it's grown as tall as any TB. Its PBF makes it stand out along
with blooms that measure 8" from fall tip to fall tip. I also love the
brown beards and BC falls.
The faults I've seen are the cupped falls, none have
made that "snap" from up-curled to down-curled like normal and the stalks droop
a little. Several blooms wanted to be polytepal, and some flower parts split. I
suppose that could be considered a fault to some. I'm still very glad to have it
and I plan to get some crosses out of it this week. Darn extreme high temps are
literally burning blooms to a crisp, shortening bloom lives to a day, and making
everything race through what would have been peak TB season. I have a million
photos to share again, I may end up uploading them to photobucket again rather
than send them all separately.
I'll only send one at a time after seeing Chuck's post
about multiple photos. Chuck, if you let me know which you especially wanted to
see I can either resend them to the group or to you privately. It's just a lot
of messages to send them all individually, but I want everyone to be able to see
them.
Brock Heilman
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