Morning Glories: This is why I`m going to hand pollinate Everything this year, 0 by gardener2005

gardener2005 wrote:
Well, here is a grow out from open pollinated seeds I picked off my pink yagurumas. They were growing by themselves 30 feet or more away from all the others and you see already I have a little "interloper" appearing. I actually like it. I dug it up and moved it away from the others. That is the first bloom. I`m glad I traded these as "open pollinated" and as a mixture. My feelings were right that it was possible they would show color variants and changes due to cross pollination...especially being a recessive color pink.

On the up side the leaves are greener,thicker and healthier looking and appear more resistant to the rust.

I have some hand pollinated yagurumas on the way being tested so we will see if that method produces desired results. Then I will have to tie blooms on those for sure to get true seeds.

This is the original pink yagurumas: