Morning Glories: This is why I`m going to hand pollinate Everything this year, 1 by gardener2005

gardener2005 wrote:
Now, here is the variation showing up in the open pollinated batch I test grew. All the seeds came off the yaguruma plants I grew by themselves 30 feet away from all the others. I`m glad I traded these as "open pollinated" mixture possibly showing color variants. I had a feeling the bees would do their jobs and some of the flowers would look different. This is the way you learn.

I think I want the stronger,healthier foilage but the pink youjiro is what I wanted. I will have to wait and see if I get a pink youjiro bloom,mark the vine and get some hand pollinated pods to grow out. Then I might have something nice that will grow out true and do good in my garden. Still, I will always have to be sure and get hand pollinated pods to ensure true seeds in the follwing generations of plantings. I`m now thinking the open seeds might either need to be shared as open pollinated mixtures or discarded.

Thank goodness I got some hand pollinated pods off these. I`m test growing the hand pollinated ones too. They are budding out and not blooming yet. I`ll surely have to hand pollinate as many as I can for true seeds.

I`ll update more later as my experiments bring more information to light.

This message was edited May 5, 2007 11:35 AM