Hibiscus: More new seedlings.., 1 by BarrysHibiscus

BarrysHibiscus wrote:
The other first bloom keeper today is "Forever Amber", a great 6" double on a nice Christmas tree style plant, but alas, the first bloom was facing the ground, heavy as it was. Very thick petals, heavy texture, wonderful color, but if they all face the ground very few people will care how pretty the flower is. Of course the seedling is in a 1-gallon pot, has been for 8 months, very rootbound . . so you never know exactly what you have until you grow clones under better conditions. All you can do is keep the ones that SEEM to have excellent flowers and lots of other good traits . . and eventually you give away lots of those because of too many faults. So we grafted three each of the new ones today, and stuck ten cuttings from each in Oasis to get a rooting percentages.

peace,
Barry