Hybridizers: It can be fun to breed your own zinnias - Part 6, 3 by brendak654

brendak654 wrote:
ZM,

Here\'s hoping you had great success getting the zinnia planted ahead of the rains. That is sure a good way to plant (ahead of rain). Were you planting plants or seed?

Interesting photo of the result zinnia from using the Mexican zinnia. The pink in that zinnia must have been picked up from whatever you were hybridizing with. I did go ahead and plant a few of the Mexican zinnia, as mentioned, since I had some space all worked and ready making it so easy for planting. Just a very small area.

I\'ll enclose a couple pictures of two of my gardens with rows of zinnias. The planting with the two rows (first two pictures - same) was planted 4/18/16 and has came along quite nicely. The single row is on higher ground and it is doing quite nicely. It has been raining here today and more rain is expected Sun & Mon. We were pretty dry, so that is a good thing.

I\'ve been down checking the Wetland Garden planting that was done on the 18th of June and I must say it is coming along SLOW - maybe if we don\'t get heavy rains, just good moderate moisture, the germination and growth will progress a little faster.

Keep working with those zinnias,

brenda