This one is Berry Ice X yogiro (it was a blue color)
This is a very dark color and the rays are only partly visible. It appears a margin my develop and I see a bit of red in the very tips of the edges. As the vine matures the flowers might change.
Love the dark color.
Jackie
The color is really dark. I want to add that the red spots at the point where the rays come to the ends of the petal do not appear as apparent in the picture as in real life. It glows red in the spot where the ray meets the thin margin. I`m hoping maybe this red in the margin will show up more later or perhaps the seeds will throw some allowing the red to be seen in the margin. It could be very pretty.
This message was edited Sep 5, 2006 2:02 PM
That is a striking dark colored flower! It would be cool with the red "dots"!
You are on your way to something new...!
Arlan
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS. i want some seed bugt when and how long to wait???????????? Frank
Thanks for the compliments!
It takes about a month for seeds to set. Then it takes about a month or six weeks to clean all the seeds off a plant as the pods get ready to pick. I`ll make a list late November or Early December.
I don`t know if I`ll trade these or not. They probably will not be true..I really don`t know for sure. I`d rather grow more of them in Spring 2007 and see what happens...then I`d have tons of seeds to trade. I wonder where the white rays from the yogiro went...the picoted edge...will the red from Berry Ice and the white edge come back?
There is no telling!
Cant wait to see the development. Congrats.
Very pretty and different!
Thanks for the compliments! I love dark velvety rich colors...
Oh,that is LOVELY!
Thanks for all the compliments!
Update. Typical to the Berry Ice parent there is more white as the vine matures.
This message was edited Sep 8, 2006 11:38 AM
Wow really pretty. Now a dumb newbie question . How do you cross the different varieties to come up with something new??
The evening before you find a flower that is just about to open. You open the flower and remove the pollen bearing stamens and tie the bloom closed. I use a thin blade of grass to tie them because it is biodegradable and there is less trash in my yard to pick up later. Then you select pollen parents before they open and simply tie them shut with pollen inside.
The next morning you untie your pod parent(anthers removed) and then you untie your pollen parent. You pull the anthers out and hopefully there will be plenty of powdery pollen present. You rub the anther you pulled off the pollen parent on the pod parent pistil (the tube in the middle) and rub the pollen over the top of it until it is caked on there. It takes about two-three anthers for each flower. Then you tie it back closed,put a small ID tag on it with a number, the pod parent and pollen parent names on it and leave it to make a pod. Then you make a record of it in a small book for reference so you can find it later.
Then you wash hands and go to the next.
This message was edited Sep 8, 2006 11:49 AM
Gardener2005, I remember being told in school that it takes about 7 successive inbreeding generations to isolate the characteristic you are breeding for.This means that for 7 years, the culls diminish more each year. I don't know how this principle applies to MGs. Frank
It is possible to grow two generations a year in y zone..more if there is a green house available. That would take about two-three years or more depending. It sounds logical but I do not know how it would apply to the morning glories. I think it may depend on what you were trying to get. Recessive traits are easier to see and keep while plants with dominant traits with hidden recessive traits hiding in there take a while to breed out.
The trouble is you don`t know for sure when and if you got what you want without genetic testing. When you are just trying new things then it is just a fun backyard project. :)
This message was edited Sep 18, 2006 9:26 AM
