RE: hybridizing SDB X TB

>Chuck, do you have a lot of SDBs blooming with the TBs?
>
>Here there is a progression of bloom and I have very few TBs blooming with
>SDBs.  If I want to make an intermediate cross, I must save pollen from the
>SDBs and use it later when TBs are in bloom, so mine are TB x SDB.
>
>What is the percentage of SDBs, BBs, and TBs coming from SDB x TB or TB x
>SDB?
>
>
>
>Walter Moores
>Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8 (Where the rain has finally stopped - 31 inches already
>for the year).
>
>Walter Moores
>
I too will use saved pollen. I also have some overlap of season. There are about 10-20 SDBs  struggling along with occasional bloom at this time when TBs are near peak. Of course there also is Forever Blue which doesn't know when to quite.
This year I grew some TBs in the cold greenhouse and they bloomed with the SDBs so got some pods in the greenhouse as well as some in the garden including a pod on a MDB plic pollinated with Ziggy. (yea!!) 
All SDB X TB & TB X SDB are IBs. Direction doesn't make a difference. Problem is a lot of large flowers and a number of plants with low bud count. I have a lovely IB from Ruby Eruption X TB seedling that is a black red, almost solid, on yellow ground with exquisit form and propper size but never more then 4 buds. arrrrrh!

Chuck Chapman, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Zone 4/5


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