unknowns still flowering
unknowns still flowering
3 teeth are clearly visible. No minor divisions of the calyx teeth are visible on this one. I recieved this pink unknown from a local nursery labeled as a datura arborea some 4 or 5 years ago.
You sure have some good ones. Beauties! My favorite color!
Yet another pink unknown about as old as the first pink unknown. Unfortunately, it is not in color yet, but the shape of the flower is very similar. The calyx has 2 teeth though and is somewhat smaller.
The darker pink one looks a lot like the seedling I grew from your seed and named Strawberry Creme. Isabella X Butterfly. This fall late, it became much lighter though. The one in the front is a pretty color too.
Colors do tend to very. Another good reason to watch them through a few bloom cycles. I think that for future identification purposes I am going to start taking pictures of the calyx, leaf, seedpod, seeds, flower, inside of flower, growth characteristics of seedling...ie does it have branches that hand down as they get older or is it a more upright grower. Measurements and notes on leaf texture, seedpod texture, etc might come in handy as well. Just taking some of this in...but of course pictures of different bloom cycles showing varying colors as well might be nice as well. In this way their will be less confusion. I was thinking of making one single cross and growing these out in large numbers taking note of all variation via pictures and notes as well, but this may have to wait for a bit now.
You have a very beautiful pink unknown there, Eric.
I love the pink ones.....heck, I love them all:)
Owen
Is the one to the right a real pale pink or a peach color? It is so soft looking.
Eric, you've certainly produced some beauties.
Yet another pink candida unknown. I sent a bag of this ones seeds to Tonny via global priority mail. Hopefully, they will all germinate. I know I promised them earlier and must admit I had a whole wal-mart bag full of them rot with what I have been going through. To top it all off my house was broken into...they took the tiller, cleaning supplies, and a batch of cuttings I just took. Some were coming with me, other cuttings were to be sent out as I can't keep them all. Some very nice doubles. I was able to find one double green cutting that hopefully will root for me. On a positive note, I was able to donate a few nicer hybrids to a few local nurseries. One nursery is actually calling them Brugmansia now instead of Datura which I consider a plus.
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I am sorry to hear about the break in. I hope that the wife and kids are allright. Its the worst part of all. One of my friends had a break in and her kids were affraid to sleep for long time.
Never mind the wal-mart bag. I know, that you have yours to see to and only a few seeds of this pink x candida would have made me happy. I like the very outspoken curl of the edge and I will look as long s necessary among the coming seedlings to find one or two that match the flower on your picture and different variations as well. Your versicolors is doing great. None has flowered, but most are over 2 ft. high, so I take around 50 of the best inside the WG. Do you have any suggestion, what to look for, when I start to select from them?
Tonny, ask the seedlings. I'm serious. Look at them and go with a gut feeling. (and take any hints Eric sends:)
I will. Thanks for the advice. :) Its a great flower of Erics x candida pink. I never saw someone like it with that much curl. Is it the heat or will it do so in zone 7 also?
btw. I crossed sagnguina fuzzy to arborea. I removed the anthers, before they opened and put pollen on, so if there will be pods I know its not the arborea selfpollinating. I spend two flowers. Ida has none opened this week, but I will make the same cross to her eventually. My sangs also seem to keep the buds now. Its temperate during day and very cool during night. Sanguinea weather. *LOL* I hope to have sanguinea with red/yellow mottled mouth and sanginea yellow and sanguinea hybrid orange blooming the next few months and pray, that Ida will flower simultaneously. Well, if not so I guess that I can freeze the pllen and use next year. :)
I wish I had that plant he posted too!! I'd be willing to test it and see if it's the zone that makes it curl:)
Eric, is there anything we can replace that was taken? I'm sure they were probably your crosses, but if so, let us know.
so it must have been a brug lover that has been to your house. A regular thief would never take brug cuttings! How sad!
That's just what I was thinking Kell. Who but a brug lover would take them! That's pretty low!
Tonny,
I would go with Tigs advice as there is no way of knowing what your going to get until they flower. You might just toss that elusive carrot red versicolor away. I go for fast growers, early bloomers, and color though. I personally like your plan on water deprivation though. A brug that doesn't need to be watered as much is certainly a valuable trait. Its just so hard trying to figure out which traits to go for first. I can't wait to see your Ida hybrids. I must admit I am dieing to see a red Ida though that can survive these hot Florida summers.
Kell,
The people that broke into my house were just plain low. I do believe I know who did it, but as with too many things its not something one can prove too easily. I donated a few trays of my seedlings to a car that just happened to drive by a year or so ago. They met me at a gas pump again just a few days ago and were telling me how beautiful the seedlings were. They stated that they could not get the ones they kept to grow, but that their sweet mother had a yard full of color now. They said they might stop by to get take a peek at my flowers again...enough said. As they say though, if you can't prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt its better to just leave it alone in cases like this.
Tig,
Don't worry about replacing anything I have. I am sure your own seedlings will be much better. Funny, just as you get a nice batch of cuttings, roots, etc. Well, I did manage to save a few Butterfly and Rosabelle and I did get to donate a few cuttings to a few local nurseries in Florida...so perhaps I can go back and get a gander at some at a later date. Still, I have to admit I am waiting for some of the Brug group here to put out some absolutely smashing hybrids. I don't think it will be much longer. To be honest, I can't have more than 3 or so hybridizing Brugs here for a bit so I will have to make a good selection to breed with. Good thing one can still set seed and save seed with just a bit of land ayy! Who knows, perhaps the neighbors will want to grow a few after they see mine bloom.
I am in fact too nervous to toss any elusive carrot red versicolor away or any good color or quality, so I decided to keep all. You can call me crazy for not culling maybe just a few and maybe keep close to 70 or how many there are. They all made it through the drought period and they deserve the best treatment I can give them.
Tonny, won't call you crazy! gonna dump the rest of my jamaican yellow seedlings that don't bloom, i have a nice yellow one, gets darker on the edge, will call myself lucky with that! plus little moon that JT raised!! gonna air layer the ones i'm gonna keep. glad i figured out what the problems are.... i guess that's all the problems i have......
Tonny,
Well just count yourself a bit more lucky as you should have some candida seeds from that hybrid arriving today or so if you recieve global priority where you are at. One pod was picked a bit early so may or may not germinate, the other was picked just right. I was going to send you a cacti seedling of mine, but couldn't find it till just now. Perhaps I'll have to send it as well....
Eric, hoping you are here in a day or two, I have one of yours with the absolute longest tendrils of any I've seen. I was just out eyeing it. tomorrow, maybe the next day.
don't forget to send me your address.
just thought I'd post it in case you miss the flower. long long twisting tendrils
Wow tiG. Can't wait for that baby to open.
Eric, I am very lucky, that you give me the oppotunity to grow out theese x candida seeds. Thanks. They hasn`t arrived yet, but they also bring out Saturday, so I hope to receive it by tomorrow. :)
No rush on the cactus. Yes, but I loveto grow them. *LOL* I was close to buying a San Pedro this spring, but it had no label and the thorns were longer, than usual, so I wasn`t completely sure it was the one. Yesterday I received a Fig-cactus cutting from a friend in Germany. It was collected wild in Yucatan of southern Mexico.