good color, i think it's darker than the pic shows. is a good thing, my ecuador pink finally opened....looks like V peach to me....
kyles pink
Wow, it's a pretty pink.
That is a beauty!
Come on summer! Very pretty!
very pretty Arlene. I love this one.
Wow, I like this one too. Is this the first time it has bloomed this year? I hope all of you in the south have a very late frost so you can keep posting pictures of your brugs.
That really lovely Arlene. I love the shape and the
color.
Arlene, with the cool evenings and nights I have noticed that it is taking longer for the color to come thru. I have one that bloomed that was marked Isabella and I knew that it must be V. Peach. It is the first time that this plant bloomed. I compared it to another V. Peach blooming and they are identical.
Awesome bloom, are your temps causing the color change on E.Pink? My V.Alba had little pin points of color after I brought it inside.
Ms Brugie, look behind the flower and you'll see the top and bottom of a real nice pod.... pollinated with rosamond. there are some stray pods on it too. TLynn, i'm not sure about the temps and/or colors. some colors seem bolder. it's going in the 40s tonight, i think for the first time.
Right Arlene, nice pod. My last Rosamond X Butterfly was ready to pick today. Had over 50 seeds in it, much bigger than the seeds from the first two. However, they better grow better than those from the first two pods, like at least one of them..............
Love that Kyle's Pink.It has become one of my favorites.
KP is one of my favs too. I have several seed pods on it, each one I pollinated took. good job Eric!!
Hope you get lots of pretty babies from the Rosamond cross.
Beauty.. I must add KP to my christmas wish list!
Absolutely beautiful.
Love that flounce!!!
TLyn,
I've found that temp changes seem to change to colors of my Brugs as well. I think Monika posted a bit more about this somewhere else in this forum a ways back. Thats one reason for not tossing out a hybrid based on its first flush of blooms for sure.
Brugie,
Rosamond x Butterfly sounds like a most wonderful cross. I must confess I hope you get something darker than Rothkirch that blooms a bit heavier, roots much easier, and takes on mostly aurea traits. Then I can grovel over a much improved new Rothkirch as the old one seems to be too disease prone from everything I have heard...though I must confess I would still like to breed with it as well. I know, why breed with an inferior hybrid....Here's hoping your cross makes that old Rothkirch just that. Of course a nice red candida type out of that cross would not be something to snivel at either. I have learned not to toss too many hybrids away with promise. I may not release them either, but at least I can keep them with the hope that something better will come of them. I'm still in search of that elusive goal of a vibrant cherry red aurea that blooms at 4 months from seed and starts a seedpod on each and every stigma that arborea pollen is put to. Well, a fellow can dream can't he?
Eric, I'm not having any luck getting the seeds to germinate. I dug into the pot that is about a month old and can't even find the seeds. A few days ago, I peeled some more and most of them were empty. Does anyone have any idea why the seeds form, but the beans are empty? This is very discouraging for me as I had a lot of seeds. I now have a very few left, but do have some peeled ones on damp towels in a baggie hoping to see them do something soon. I know that a good friend has at least one that has germinated for her, so it isn't lost yet.
Brugie,
Bugs of some sort bore into the seed making very tiny holes and then eat the seeds themselves leaving the seed coat intact. They kind of look like very tiny worms to me, but I have no idea what they actually are. I've seen some folks who make 10-20 of the same cross that store all the seeds once dried in the same jar. My concern would be that just one contaminated seed might contaminate the entire jar. I must confess I have done this myself, but I now keep each seedpod seperate even if it is from the same cross. In this way I am hoping to reduce such an incident from infecting all of such a cross. Not to mention if one labels each seedpod from each cross if one finds that one gets a few oddballs out of a cross and they only come from that one pod and one has made several of those same crosses one can deduce that perhaps a moth has come behind you to help you pollinate or some other such error.
When I pollinated these, I had to open them up to do it. Wanted to make sure that the moth couldn't get in when the stigma was ready. I think the cross is okay, but the little bugger that ruined the seeds has to be stopped. It is only this cross that ended up empty. So far all of my seeds are laying in the open on paper plates. They are dry enough to store, I'm just too lazy to get them put away I guess. Either that or I like to look at them. Thanks Eric, maybe I'll have to be better at spraying the brugs next year. I'll make the same cross again, for sure.
I have mentioned this before. I use rose dust to sprinkle my seeds, hollyhock, foxglove,etc.,then put them in baggies, have found this stops that little bugger from eating all of the seeds!
Brugie,
I have to confess that is my perfered method of hybridizing Brugs as well. I rip open most of the flowers I hybridize while they are still green and fully closed. A few I pollinate before they come out of the calyx even.
Hibiscus,
I have started dusting my seeds with a light coating of fungicide. Perhaps this is over kill, but I definitly think a light dusting of something to deter the insects from feasting on ones seeds is a must as even a systemic can wear low.
Well, I'm sure going to try something with the next seeds that are ripe, even though I've only had trouble with the three pods from the cross I mentioned. Bet those little buggers were feasting for the three months I was watching and waiting. Just my luck. My first cross ever. Have had one other by moths, but this one was to be special.
Hibiscus.......what is the rose dust called?
Arlene, this is sure a pretty brug!
Shirley, I've got two good seeds from your cross. I peeled yours tonight along with more Rosamond x seeds that I purchased. I only got one good seed from the purchased ones.
I inspected them closely with a magnifying glass and the outside shells looked fine. No signs of even the tiniest hole.After peeling a couple of layers I could see a hole which went right to the middle of the seed where there was just an empty hole where the seed should have been.No sign of any worm which makes me think that they die after they eat the seed since there is no exit hole in the outside seed coat.I don't see any possible way to tell that the seeds aren't fertile unless you peel them.So for those starting seeds you may want to peel some to be sure there is a little seed inside before waiting weeks for them to sprout and then finding they weren't fertile.
It just goes to prove the old adage that great things do not come easily!
just improving my English!!
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Snow, I'm sure sorry, but who would have thought that there would be so many empty seeds. I've had them before in seeds that I've received, but the empty percentage was higher in my own seeds. Guess I may have to try that cross again next year.
No need to be sorry. There was no way of telling even with a magnifying glass. Just glad there are at least a few from your cross you'll be able to see.