Hybridizers: It can be fun to breed your own zinnias - Part 3, 0 by Zen_Man

Zen_Man wrote:
EM,

Your hybrid echinacea specimens give me something to shoot for with my echinacea flowered zinnias. You have some spectacular specimens. The attached picture is one of my current echinacea-flowered breeders and I have been saving quite a few seeds from it. But past experience warns me that 90 to 95 percent of its progeny will be single rejects. I guess those odds are no worse than playing a slot machine. Maybe I will "hit the jackpot" in the remaining 5 percent. Those progeny are now growing rather rapidly.

ZM