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Hibiscus: Condemn it to death or spear its life, for this new seedling, 1 by WQP

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WQP wrote:
Jon, your partially right, let me reface a little, what I meant was do this deformities correct them self or not, I've only been cross pollinating since last summer 2008, and I really don't know to much about first blooms on seedling, never done this with hibs until last year, and I didn't have any of the really fancy hibs you all had ether, those I got this year, all this seedling are the product of last years seeds I planted from what I had available locally from neighbors and garden centers, and believe me they don't sell fancy hibs, My first seedling didn't quit come out perfect ether but now the blooms are perfect shaped, but this one was so deformed compared to what it looks now, two petals were very small, one petal was medium size and the other two were really big and the stigma was twice the size of the bloom itself, darn gone ugly as can get. so imagine if I tell you it looks gorgeous now to what the first bloom looked like.
I'm going to plant it on the side road, at least it looks pretty from an airplane, Lynn I'll get you something with prettier blooms, I'll D-mail you Lynn and don't worry about my desire to generate new species and colors, One out of 20 is not bad for me, Lynn have you checked my tread " Your Opinion Requested " , I have 15 new hibs there, there not amazingly awesome but I like them, the other 4 that bloomed I did not post them since they came out identical to one of the parent hibs. and the last one is this one.
Jon and ilovejesus, thank you very much for making such honest opinions, decision has been made, judgement day has come sooner than expected, and so like the song says, Hit the road Jack, for this hib.

Wilfred