should be called Red Velvet. I was out of town so these are blooms from the last couple of days and some new ones that are opening tonight. She is awesome. Congrats JT. Tell us the parents please
JT's Pink Velvet
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She's pretty Donna!! I'd like to know about her parents too. Donna, all my cutting from you are blooming their head off, and my first ever Frosty Pink will be blooming tomorrow. Golfito and FP are so green and healthy, I love their dark foliage. My Monsters were put in the ground late, but they've bloomed, I LOVE them and their fragrance and they are catching up nicely from their late start...thanks!!!!!!!!
I love the dark pink color!!!
Beautiful Donna. You've got a winner there!!!
Thats about as close as I've seen to red except some sangs I guess. Sure is dark.
How much does it open at night?
Awesome !!!
....love the color....I need a dark pink badly LOL :))
Margo
start mixing red food color in your water and fertilizer. It works with the old carrot experiment in science class. If you look at ferts with a high nitrogen number for foliage, they're always a darker blue. I still think the companys add dye of some sort so not only do the plants grow more foliage but it has that nice bluegreen look to it.
She looks so long and so thin. A model! LOL. I sn' t that great that the new blooms are so white to contrast the older darker ones. I love that effect.
I guess you are home again, Donna!!
Very pretty, Donna.
Those flowers are soooo long! I can picture an Angel blowing on those trumpets! Very pretty Donna.
Beautiful!! Another for my wishlist.
Brenda
Sure is pretty.
Welcome back, Donna. Bet you enjoyed seeing this one. It's nice!!!!!!
lol Shirley it is mine. He gave it to me and Trish last fall when he met us in Crestview. I can see her from my desk right now
JT has some really nice crosses out there :-) I love this one too! Congrats to you Donna and JT! I'll be watching to see what the parentage is on this one too.
Glad you're back and safe Donna :0)
Julie
I know you hate you missed the early stage bloom, but at least you have more to go. Please post followup photos when they open and turn.
My notes are that Pink Velvet = PB X EP
Wow...these dark pinks many of you are photographing are *fabulous*!!!
I think I might just try that red food coloring experiment....maybe with a cutting, huh? Anyone else going to try? *Has* anyone tried it in the past?
LindaSC....I'm assuming PB = Pink Beauty?
What's EP? Have seen that on a couple of other threads and it's got me wondering......
TIA!
EP = Equidor Pink I believe.
The food coloring is just something that crossed my mind. Now that I think about it, don't they do that to carnations in florist shops to come up with the powder blue and lime greens?
I'm going to stop and get a bunch of red food coloring on the way home and start flooding one of the brugs in bloom. See what happens.
Linda is right.It's Pink Beauty x Ecuador Pink.That's a cross you can't go wrong with.That same pod produced 4 keepers.Pink Velvet,Velvet Rose,Flirtation and Santa Rosa.They differ a bit in tendril length,and color but all are nice.I believe PV has the largest bloom.
If you are a new hybridizer,try that cross.You are guaranteed some good ones.Every seedling from that pod would have been a keeper a couple of years ago.As it was
I hated to put some of them on the compost.
Thank you JT for sharing the crosses with us, not everyone will do this. You have some beauties there!
I bet that was hard to do JT. Did your grow them all out for 2 years before deciding which ones went to the compost pile??
Gosh, I have that cross growing right here, in southeast Arky. Wow! There's never been a celebrity here, until now, lol!! I cannot wait until she blooms!!
Yes Donna,I grew them all for two or more years.I still have a couple that I can't name and can't bear to compost.I guess some non brug neighbors will get those.
JT, wish I was your neighbor.
Here's one of her sister seedlings, Velvet Rose, for comparison - picture taken this morning. VR has probably been my favorite brug this year as the heat and bugs have not bothered her a bit.
Sweet!
Ooooh, TomH, she is very pretty!!! I purchased that same cross from an organization and she hasn't bloomed yet, I cannot wait!! I would LOVE to see a photo of the named ones together, so I can dream which one mine will favor...
So very beautiful Tom, enjoy.
beautiful Tom
Nice!! and Brug bug free too! :o) Beautiful, both of them!
Nice one Tom. Very pretty.
One of these days someone will get a true red.The further downline we go with these pink to pink crosses the closer we get.Now if only someone would splice in an Iochroma gene and get us a blue.
lol!
Blue would definitely be nice......lol
What a nice surprise for you Donna upon arriving home. There is nothing like seeing pretty brug blooms for the first time to get one excited and happy.
Velvet Rose is also very pretty.
Donna, lovely photo. What a plesant surprise for you. I always love finding that kind of surprise in the garden.