Re: Re: TB: REB: seedling & PBF.

Linda,

I  have also many first year seedlings with multiple increases on them
and noticed that the mother rhizome was only the size of a quarter. 
Because of the multiple increases I'm assuming that they'll bloom next
year or else I`ll be in BIG trouble because I planted my seedling 4 to 6
inches apart.  

One thing I noticed from my crosses is that I have lots of PBF coming
through the pollen parent side.  For example , half of my BABBLING BROOK
x THORNBIRD seedlings have very nice PBF, actually much more pronounced
than that of THORNBIRD.  A cross of HONKY TONK BLUES x BLACK OUT has
also yielded exactly 50% PBF seedlings.

Can PBF be a recessive trait that comes through the pod parent even
though the pod parent does not have it ?

I'm wondering what I'm going to do with my 42 CHAMPAGNE ELEGANCE x LENT
A WILLIAMSON ( old ultra floppy )seedlings from a fertility test.  I'm
almost afraid to see them bloom but I planted the seedlings out anyway
to complete this long cycle that I'm just dying to get a handle on in
this climate of zone 4b Lafontaine Quebec.

DO you cut the fans back of first year seedlings before the freeze
knocks them over ?  Will you protect these little rhizomes somehow ?

Christopher Darlington
VERY cold here now

Linda Mann wrote:
> 
> <Any sign of rebloom was
> absent here this year.  Even BABY BLESSED and GOLD REPRISE haven't shown
> any
> attempt.Donald Eaves Texas Zone 7b, USA>
> 
> Rebloom was sparse here and even later than usual this year.  So I am
> delighted to have a few reblooming seedlings, even tho they don't live
> up to my hybridizing goals.  Only problem is that they are all rampant
> growers, so are taking up more and more space without giving me blooms
> for evaluation!  Blooms on this one are nothing to write home about, but
> greatly appreciated, plus it looks like it has pollen!  Remarkable,
> considering how much cold injury the stalk seems to have suffered.
> 
> I'm also delighted to see that several of my seedlings that germinated
> this spring have multiple increases!  So all that fussing around with
> alfalfa cubes & Miracle Grow seems to have worked, at least for some of
> them.  The 'mother' rhizome on these is still small tho - they don't
> look big enough to bloom next spring, but I'm new at this so don't know
> if rhizome size matters much with seedling/maiden bloom?
> 
> Few seeds germinated this year, but of those that did come up, I am
> really curious to see what the unknown variegata (possibly PT Barnum)
> and DISCRETION crosses with IMMORTALITY look like.  One seedling from
> each cross is especially vigorous.
> 
> Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
> 
> 
> 
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