Morning Glories: One last cross, 1 by gardener2005

gardener2005 wrote:
This is a cross between two varieties of Japanese morning glory. I removed the pollen from the Ukigumo the night before and tied it back closed. Then I took the pollen off the youjiro and rubbed the pollen on the pistil of the Ukigumo flower. Then I labeled it as Ukigumo x yogiro because Ukigumo is the pod parent and the youjiro was the pollen parent.

What you see is a mix between the two flowers that will not come back true from seeds.

Some will have the same pattern possibly but there will also possibly be some with just blizzard pattern,some with just rays and even some that are plain blue. I`m only Guessing here so I`m not intending on spreading missinformation. There will possibly be variegated and non variegated foilage showing up in the second generation. Notice I said possibly indicating that it isn`t absolute.

I`m a hobbyist experimenting with my own flowers in my own backyard. I`m not a professional plant breeder but I`m enjoying a hobby.

I`m not here to teach anyone anything but here to share my experience growing flowers and to perhaps pick up on some advice and insight coming form other growers like myself.

The blizzard pattern and the white ray pattern are the dominant features(in this case) showing up in the first generation. You can see them in the pictures. There is No Way to tell what other genes and characteristics are hiding in there without genetic testing and that is way,way beyond my scope as a hobbyist growing a few flowers in my backyard.

I am not saying that these features will show up dominant in every cross that could be made or making any insinuation about the dominance of the characteristics other than they are apparent here in the results of This cross. It would be like me saying a black dog has the dominant black color...and not implying that they did or did not carry recessives for other colors or modifiers that would result in chocolate or blue colors.

The flowers are all going to be different much like the Ukigumo parents flowers all being different from almost solid to very blizzard to almost white in a few instances on the same vine.

These flowers carry for the variegated leaves so a percentage of the F2 flowers will either have variegated leaves or carry for the variegation.

My flowers are going to be called a Ukigumo/yogiro mix.

I will grow them out in my own backyard and select the healthiest vines and flowers I prefer for myself. Over years of time it is possible I could have a flower selected to suit me and my garden just fine.If I share or sell seed then the background and origin of the mixed seed will be told as well as "open pollinated" for any grown outside and not carefully hand pollinated.

Here are a few more. They are tidy little flowers like the youjiro,a bit larger than youjiro and the vines are broader leafed and fast growing sort of an improvement over both parents(In my own opinion) which may or may not show up again.










This message was edited Feb 13, 2007 11:12 PM