Hello Eric,
Here`s an update on the seedlings. They are not planted in rows here, but will be in a month or so. The passed the tests last summer, so this year there will be plenty of food and care for them and by the speed they are growing its close to be sure that there will be at least one flush this year.
They look good to me! I am sure he will be proud to see them, and know they survived the big freeze out you had this winter. I potted up a bunch of seedlings from Calla this weekend they were already big enough I put them in gallon containers.
They look like they are taking off, how great! I planted some of my seedlings into the seedling test garden yeserday! So exciting. It used to be my vegetable garden, then my bonsai training garden, and then my wisteria garden, and now my brug garden. How fickle am I? LOL.
WELCOME BACK! I MISSED YOU HERE AT DAVE'S SO GLAD TO SEE YOU BACK AGAIN AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE POSTS.
Hugs to both you and Lene!
Tonny, so glad to see you posted this picture and on my birthday no less. Sorry I missed it when you first posted it. Are these from my versicolor batch or my first year bloomers crossed to one another, or.... They are looking great at any rate. Sure do hope you get some to bloom for you at any rate before much longer. All of my hybrids go through a freeze before I release them by the way. I like em to be hardy as they say.
Happy Birthday, Eric.
I am crossing my fingers that they will bloom this summer. They grew real fast, since this picture was taken, so they are fast as a rocket *lol* All the seeds came from your versi batch from a bed exclusive with versi`s and you said in the letter, that the bees had mixed them *lol* I remember that you mentioned sewveral types that was growing in that bed that yesr, but I forgot their names ... or some, because there was EP, versi peach and a pink one (???)*lol* If you remember I hope that you can refresh my memory and that I learn that it is important to write such things down :) A happy Birthday to you, Eric. So that was on a monday. I hope you had time of in the weekend before to enjoy and celebrate with your wife and the kids.
Wow! That is a bunch of babies! Hope you get something neat!
Happy belated birthday. :)
April 7th.......sorry I missed your birthday Eric. So, happy belated birthday. Hope Tonny gets some nice bloomers, etc. from your seedlings.
Tonny,
Yes those were bee pollinated versicolor seeds from a stand of versicolors all by there lonesome. I would have to add that my seedlings were all blooming some few hundred feet away though so you may have some mixed hybrids from the moths, but with as many versicolors as were planted side by side I can see most of them being pure versicolors. Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone.
Badseed, yes, there is more than just a few. Eric is very generous. I had planted as Eric also do - tobacco wise - last year and now where the first selections are made they are a little over 90 seedlings. There was more than a hundred, when they came up, as there was a 100 % germination *lol*
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Shirley, I hope there will be a few.
Eric, pure versicolors or versicolors x your seedlings both sound like a winning combination *lol*
btw. I forgot to mention, that germinated the pink x candida pod 1 and pod 2 in January. It was a bit too cold for the seedlings as all but one got the falling disease (fungus attack that make the stalk shrimp, so the seedlings fall). I took a photo yesterday of the tough one though *lol* I sowed more seeds of x candida pink again a week ago and can`t wait to say hello to them :)
I would keep the one that made it then ayy! Breeding healthier stronger brugs is first and foremost on my mind if you can't tell. I can't wait to see what those new seeds you have planted bring you. Hopefully some very fast growing hardy versicolor types. Were in for some trully astounding hybrids this year if you ask me. With everyone making hybrids in this group someone has to get lucky.
Definitly a keeper. It was the one with the overhanging branches, right? I loved that one *lol* This seedling came up later than most of the others, but its catching in now. A pretty fast grower I would say. For my part I couldm not have asked for more. I hope that this seedling as well as the newly potted seeds will be as cold hardy as your versicolor mix seedlings were, - not that I hope to test them or any other Brug this way again *lol* The versis came back after nearly a week by - 6 *C, so vacation- and Siberian-Brugs will not be to be to say too much. Now that Mitjo and Evert from Finland also grow Brugmansias we must not let them down, but strive to create them fit for short intense summers and a bit more cold that they are used to *lol* I potted several of the versi seedlings up in 10 L. ground pots and will pot the rest up next week. I noted today that there are several different leaf shapes and colors from dark green to lime green. ... yes, it is a heck of a group hybridizing here and I can`t wait to see, what everyone come up with in the fall or next year. I know that we are going to see some highly promising results :) With all this efford and some good guidance we simply can not go entirely wrong *lol*
Tonny,
Most assuredly you are right. The pink candida seeds I gave you were from a very fast, heavy blooming, good repeat blooming pink candida type. The branches do hang a bit though as they seem to keep branching and branching without gaining a lot of substance to them. Reminds me of a weeping willow really. The pink candida by the way far outstripes any other versicolor or candida type I have had in growth characteristics and speed of maturation so if this is passed on to any of its seedlings you'll be in luck.
I cross my fingers that the weeping willow traits transfer to the hybrids. That reminds me that I never got to tell you how much I like Janet Reno`s growth habit. I saw a picture posted, where the branches was close to touch the ground, although it was growing on a stem. It must be the sprawling D. meteloides of Brugs.
