Re: HYB: Feed/back

Thanks for your thoughts on FEEDBACK Betty.  I wasn't hoping for
percentages, just how you felt about it's usefulness as an ancestor.

Walter lists it in a couple of REPRISE pedigrees, but doesn't think much
of it as a parent in his location.  Local rebloom guru Jim Ennenga
doesn't grow it because he says it wasn't hardy when he tried it in
Nebraska.

I have two clumps of it, same soil, only a few yards apart - one is
limping along, rarely blooms, barely increases, the other is an ever
increasing mass of fans with IMMORTALITY's trait of making lots of
foliage and few bloomstalks.  Usually the stalks are short (IMM height)
and have only a few buds & flowers are small, washed out, & really
unimpressive.  Last week, it produced two, enormous, very dark, richly
colored blooms (on a 15 inch stalk), which made me think about its
possibilities again...

I have a few baby seedlings from it - all the survivors are quite
robust.

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