Re: CULT: seedlings - long

>For bearded I keep the original pots 2 years. Does anyone keep them 
>longer?.

I presume you mean you transplant the seedlings from these pots, and keep 
the pots on to see what else germinates?
I have been doing that this year, but only to see if I get any late 
seedlings. I then go through the potting mix and collect all the seeds I can 
find, and scatter them amongst the sibling seedlings. Last years seedlings 
have a few tiny siblings coming up next to them.
My seedlings are mostly growing 3 or 4 to a 12" pot, and I am having little 
trouble discarding the flowering seedlings, as I need their pots. Crosses 
that are not giving any interesting blooms, I am also discarding their 
siblings which have not flowered.
The only cross which has interested me so far is the CHERRY CHILD (SDB) X 
YES (TB) cross, which is giving lots of peachy/orange blooms with bright 
orange beards, and either brown pumila spot markings, or an overall brown 
wash on the falls. Some of these are nicely formed and ruffled, so I am 
going to keep the unbloomed siblings (about 30 of them) until they bloom.
I don't see any problem with having to seperate the plants in the pots, as 
so few will be kept after bloom.
I grow my PCI seeds 3 or 4 to a jiffy pot, and plant the little peat pots 
into larger pots, when the seedlings are ready to go outside. Some plants 
are blooming with 2 or 3 different flowers, because there are 2 or 3 
different plants mixed together. This looks rather attractive if you are 
just growing them for garden effect.

My PCI seedlings sent from Vicki Craig last year, are blooming now, and some 
of these are rather lovely. I also have some interesting purples coming from 
a selfed cross of DEEPENING SHADOWS.
I haven't been taking many photo's or doing many crosses so far this year. 
My days seem to be alternately extremely busy, or rainy.
Cheers, Jan Clark, Australia
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