Re: spec-x results with versicolor

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Dennis,

wow! Congratulations.  I did not have such luck with my wide crosses.  Probably stalled by our wierd weather during bloom season.  Even my pure PCN crosses largely failed.

I'll be looking for your 'left-overs' on the seed-ex.

Jamie V.

I'm stoked!  I applied PCN pollen and prismatica pollen onto lots of versicolor flowers and I got lots of pods.  Tonight I just harvested the first half dozen pods and they're filled with seeds.

Christmas in July?  Yes please!  <3

The PCN pollen was courtesy of some growers out in San Francisco.  The prismatica pollen was fresh out of my garden.

I've still got 3-4 dozen pods out there on Siberians, tridentata, versicolor, brevicaulis, foetidissima and tectorum.  (Tectorum ripens slllllllllllllow.)   Most of them are wide crosses, except for the brevicaulis -- those are straight-up LA.

This year was GREAT for me.  I'll be donating lots to SIGNA Seed Exchange.  But I'm selfishly keeping the good stuff.  ;-)

Dennis in Cincinnati