Propagation: first attempt at growing hibiscus from seed, 1 by starlight1153

starlight1153 wrote:
Kim.... LOl I am a girl... : ) Just checkign in and seeign what happenign on Dave's.

You don't happen to know the name of your pink do you? if you knew the name I could trace it back . With out knowing what cultivar you have it a roulette game. Selfers should come true and you should have all pink that if you have one plant and it pollinate d by itself.

If you have more than one pink, it possible that a bee has pollinated before it could self itself then your gonna or should end up with at least 3/4 that is pink. the other quarter can be white or red or even a different shade of pink. But even then ther e no quaerente e because latent ( hidden dormant genes) can pop out and do and produce the mutants that make the brand new cultivar on the market.

Take the Luna white I that gettign ready to bloom. They will produce alot of seed but they are a hybrid so while I will have lots that look like mom there going to be some of unknowns in the mix and maybe even a new cultivar as recessive genes pop out . That part of the fun of hybridizing and planting so many seed. It take s thousands and thousands of sproutign seeds to find a genetic flaw but somewhere along the way a new cutivar will pop out eventually.

I also gonan take a coupel of the Luna Buds and pollinate them with a deep red hibiscus that a friend sent me a piece of. I expect to get somethign new and different out of the cross. Hopefully somethign good, but sometime s ya just get get dogs.

I had a pink selfer hibiscus that produced tons of seed and so far all that I have sowed and given away wer e pink.

I planted thousands of Gallardia seeds. Out of all thos e seeds I discovered one that is a mutant. it has smooth leave s and the bloom while lookign like mom is only about a half inch wide. I pulled it otu and have it growign seperate. It a mini. I pollinated it to itself and when the seed ripe I will germinate them to se e how many if any become mutants and who comes out lookign normal.

When I was out watering tonight, notice d one of the Luna Whit e bloosm is starting to try and open. Soon as they do will get ya all some pics.

One thign i have learned though is that with any plant. Unles s you have the plants in a controlled enviroment, pollinate them yourself and then immediately remove the filaments and anthers and cover so there no chance of any other bug accidentally pollinating them your basically left to nature and whatever she decideds to produce for you.

When you buy seed from the big seed companie s your seed gonan coem true. They produce under controls, but when folks grow and trad e seeds that they have harvested ya get the luck of the draw.