Re:HYB: help for newbie

Adam and Betty, I have a few "either---or" myself.  I try not to do this, but
like Betty remarked, I, too, go outside just to look around and end up making
a cross, *I think.*  I forget by the time I get to the house just which or
what I did.

An example--a pod on Orchid Cloud had no tag, as I didn't get back to it to
record and make one the same hour I made the cross.

I realized the pod was one I intended (I thought), so I had a three-way
guessing game.  Selfed?  Or either one of two different seedlings from the
cross from which Power Woman was named--Swingtown X Romantic Evening.

When they bloomed, it was pretty obvious "selfed" was out.  But the other two?
It remains an "Either--or" and that may jump up and bite me one of these days,
as I saved one purple seedling about 30 years behind the times in quality, but
with incredible vigor--one of those pieces that is part of what it takes to
make the rebloomer genome.

The seedling has about three times the substance of Orchid Cloud, which I've
now discarded so I won't be tempted to use it again, but Orchid Cloud had such
an interesting makeup--it reblooms, it has decent branching, is a dominant
amoena in orchid rather than blue, and is from Whole Cloth and Moldovan/Fay
pinks...but how many generations will it take to get past its form and
substance?

The saved seedling was a self (the cross had only one amoena).  It has fairly
decent form, color, etc.  Just what one would have expected about 1975.

Neil Mogensen  z 7, Reg 4  western NC mountains

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