Re: HYB: Help - planting fresh seeds?
- Subject: Re: HYB: Help - planting fresh seeds?
- From: L* M*
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:59:46 -0400
<Experiments are fun - - so I think if you are intrigued - go with it.
Messing with nature is fun, and so is simply letting nature take it's
course. I think the answer here is - deciding just how much work do you
want to do? And whether you think this will help or hurt your
hybridizing goals.Margie Oro Valley, AZ. zone 8/9>
Definitely!
Before I retired, I would never have bothered trying to speed up the
interval between generations. But my life clock is on the downhill side
of the second half, & waiting 6 or 10 years to see the second generation
is starting to seem waaay too long. That gorgeous dark purple seedling
bloomed for the first time this year from a cross made in 1996. I don't
want to have to wait until 2008 to see its seedlings bloom.
I have managed to speed things up quite a bit since then with bloom
sometimes 2 yrs after a cross, but it's still more often 3 or more
years. I sure would like to have at least an occasional bloom the first
year and most by the second.
--
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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