Tropicals & Tender Perennials: WANT TO START SOME MORE SEEDS, 1 by crestedchik

crestedchik wrote:
Karrie,
If you yourself take 2 brugs,no matter what their names are ,and no matter who the hybridizer is
and you pollinate them or even if the bees pollinate it
you wait the long ,agonizing months of waiting for the pod to ripen
you grow out the seeds
the seedling's grow and bloom
then YOU are the hybridizer
You name it
You make the choices
compost or keep

Of all the seeds I've harvested there have only been 1 keeper
Susie grew it out
I do have one of Susies
EP X CG which bloomed last year that I like and kept
but it looks simalar to many other brugs so it remains un named (except to me) I kept it to use for breeding

I also have some of Monikas that are blooming size but are not something that is up to Monikas standards.(She culls HARD!)
I too am keeping them for breeding.This will be their second season ,maybe one of them will be special enough this year.They bloomed late last summer and sometimes the later blooms are different.But they come from good genes so even though they are un named ,it does not make them un suitable for breeding
So everyone should remember that you don't name and release every seedling you have.If one is a personal favorite ,keep it,use it for hybridizing or just for your own pleasure

Lake effect is one that was a seed sent to me in trade years ago.I finally started it,grew it out,and loved it
I have tried to find out who the hybridizer is...
all that was written on the seed pack was
Aurea cross with some numbers
it came out of California
about 5 years ago
( thats why I put my name on the seed packs)
Its a wonderful plant,huge leaves,tons of white blooms ,big flushes,resists wind damage,when brugs all around it were aphid infested it resisted them better,sets pods easy,and the seedlings that come from it are large and healthy.Ith also took heat and cold well,and bloomed in the GH in the winter.
I still have not released it ,because I want to make sure it really is something special,This year I will probably send cuttings to certian people to see how it grows in other parts of the country.

I would love to find who grew the pod
But I can't,Whe I first started it I posted the numbers to see if anyone recognized it
They deserve the credit for it
I have mixed feelings about naming it but I have not released it,and if I find the person who breed it they have all rights to it.