HYB: big seeds

If Rick Ernst (or the hybridizer Tom Johnson) is lurking out there, please let
me know.  Otherwose I'll try to dig up the e-mail address.  Interesting
results from a cross on Spouting Horn this year (a very tall, late-blooming
and healthy flower).  I had a lot of Louisa's Song pollen this year, and was
crossing it with my best blues.  The last to bloom was Spouting Horn, so I
kept trying (about 30 times!) although it just wouldn't take.  Finally, I got
one pod.  I picked it yesterday.  The pod only contained 6 or 8 seeds, but
they were the size of large garbanzo beans (at least 6 to 8 times the normal
mass).  I have seen large seeds (1.5 to 2 times the usual size) before on a
Laugh Lines cross, but never anything like this.  Lots of Louisa's Song
crosses, the rest were all normal.  I would like to know anyone else's
experience with Spouting Horn as a parent.  Considering its relative
infertility, I am wondering if it might be some sort of mutation with an extra
set of chromosomes or something freaky?  Probably just a creative imagination,
but it is unusual.  Well, that was the last of my pods so in a week or two
I'll start soaking all my seeds.

John Reeds, in 9b San Juan Capistrano, California
(lamegardener@msn.com)

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