Hybridizers: Questions about hybrids, 1 by Zen_Man

Zen_Man wrote:
Lucy,

"I think whichever literature you may be reading is making hybridizing too complicated."

Well, the physical act of hybridizing, the transferring of pollen from one flower to a different flower, is simple enough for most species, including iris and zinnias. But the underlying biological and genetic processes are indeed marvelously complicated. It is not the literature that I am reading that makes it complicated. Nature makes it complicated. I enjoy the surprises that Nature provides us. The flowerform on this zinnia was a surprise to me last Fall.

ZM