Hybridizers: It can be fun to breed your own zinnias - Part 6, 1 by Zen_Man

Zen_Man wrote:
Hello all,

It is seed-saving time here, and we are having some wonderfully warm weather to do it in. I am attaching a picture of a recombinant with scabious heritage that is interesting. It reminds me a bit of a Gaillardia, or perhaps an Echinacea. I plan to place a little more emphasis on work with scabious zinnia types, both indoors and outdoors. I have a lot of different new types of zinnias to cross them with, and I think they have potential for creating further new zinnia forms.

By the way, Brenda, did you say that you planted any of the Zinderellas yet? You have more zinnia growing space than anyone else on the planet, that I know of. I have all the growing space that I can handle, but it is considerably less than half an acre. Your big zinnia grow-outs have already produced a lot of great new specimens, and I suspect many more good results are to come next year.

It won\'t be too long until I start my indoor zinnia project, but right now I am concentrating on seed saving.

ZM