Re: HYB: REB:questions/comments on cultivars

In a message dated 6/22/2003 9:47:58 AM Central Standard Time, 
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

> <<<<<I DO is new for me ->>>>>> 

> Monty recommended IMMORTALITY to me as a rebloom breeder. Someone on a 
> robin I was on said I should be using I DO instead of IMM.  Lloyd was on the same 
> robin and said I was right to use IMM because it passed the rebloom better, 
> even though I DO has the better form.  And, I think BRIDGE IN TIME  and 
> RETURNING CHAMELEON turned out okay! 

> I bought I DO (again) and had good bloom on it this year, but didn't use 
> it, because this one has a lot of yellow on the haft. And it wasn't as 
> pure/clean or nice as what I remembered I DO being. I think I have the wrong plant. 
> (No rebloom so far) 
> 
> I used Mother Earth with the introduced sibling to Ruffled Ballet.  I can't 
> remember the name of the cultivar right now, but it was much stronger than RB 
> but not as pretty.  Got some decent seedlings but all stalks hit the ground. 
> Didn't save them. But I was planning to cross it to some of my strongest 
> rebloom seedlings. If it would bloom and at the right time.


Anyone grow Duo Dandy? Ben's seedling from ME?

Betty W. in hot South-central KY zone 6

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