Oh looky, what I've got. Don't know what the cross is, the hummer moth's have been busy. Frosty Pink, Kyles Pink and Solid Gold were blooming around it. Could be interesting.
What a rush!!
Isabella Pod
Well Shoot, wrong picture. Let me try again.
lol Dee...nice shot...
Congrats, Dee... will catch up with you in a little while, still running. is the first pic the one you emailed me a while back?
Yep Arlene, but it didn't stay, it fell off. The second picture is another one.
the first pic seems to be a critical junction, if they make it past that stage they seem to stick. i'm anxiously awaiting my kyle's pink X pink beauty/rosamond/whatever... i've decided to grow all those seeds myself.
oh arlene, I bet you get something wonderful out of that cross!!!
Do you check it every day Dee? I did when I had my first pod. I don't know what I thought would happen to it. :-)
I have quite a few on my Isabella. She seems to be a good seed setter. I go through and give them all a gentle squeeze now and then to feel how big they are.
See, it's contagious. Y'all better get some Nu-skin!!!
Cala, I've been very good. No cuts on my pods, yet!! Just wish they would hurry up and ripen so I can start planting some for earlier bloom next year.
Brugie, I did good all summer till the other day. I made a couple of slits in a versicolor pod.(well, it looked like it might be getting ripe.) I've found that if you do make a little slit, just let it heal naturally, no harm done.
Guess what y'all, I found a pod today while cleaning out the jungle, it was all dried up, the seeds were about to fall out of it!!!
Cala, what are you going to do with all those seeds? I don't know how I'll be able to grow all that I have and I only have a very few pods. Well shuck, forgot you have a greenhouse.
Looking at all the pods being posted it might be a good time to take stock out on Nu-Skin!
Brugie yes I look at it every day, but I don't touch it. But why do ya'll slit it. To make it ripen faster?? Haven't you ever heard, "patience is a virtue" and "good things come to those who wait"??? Yea I know practice what I preach. so there. LOL
Dee, no, it doesn't help it to ripen, but sometimes I just need to peek!! Does that make me a 'brug voyeur'? Our greenhouse inspector was there the other day, and he even had to squeeze one of the pods on the brugs!!
Susie, if you are this way with seed pods you must be terrible at Christmas! All that peeking going on, is Lauren learning your bad habits??
Dee, Bill doesn't even buy my present till a day or two before Christmas!!! I'm terrible. I hate it when my friends send me presents a month before Christmas and say "promise not to open it till Christmas morning". Well, a little shake or squeeze isn't opening is it? And sometimes you know how that paper will just have a little tear in it(that keeps getting bigger and bigger)...Yes, patience is a virtue, but hey, I never said I was virtuous.
and I think that makes your GH inspector a brug pervert
Nah, he's a really nice man. lol. He loves brugs and tropical plants. He is facinated by the brugs(and the pods)
see, then I agree with kell, he is a pod pervert!
LOL DEE........ yes a PP............ pod pervert!
Dee,
Congrats on your seedpod. I have to admit Isabella was one of my favorite suaveolens types to breed with until recently. I'm still wishing I had of crossed Isabella with Ecuador pink, but perhaps if your lucky you'll get something just as good or better from a possible cross with Kyles pink as this one was a first year bloomer that also set seed in its first year though the seedpod did not make it to maturity.
Arlene,
I have to respect your decision to grow all of this cross yourself. I for one think its a bit easier to judge your crosses if your the only one growing them all. Not to mention you get to cross seedlings together right away if two of them share characteristics you like, but are lacking in individually in some manner. That, and it helps to see all the variation that one gets with a cross.