This is Ukigumo x youjiro (Ukigumo is pod parent and youjiro is the pollen parent.)
I was hoping for a double flower since I saw some doubling on both vines I chose for the cross. It looks good even in the rain. I don`t think my crosses are going to bust the morning glory world wide open but I have learned that the blizzard and the white rays are dominant and show up at the same time in the first cross.
This message was edited Feb 13, 2007 11:08 PM
OH MY, I love that one!
Me to Paul
It is beautiful and very dramatic; I love the colors.
Thanks for the compliments. These are holding up pretty good in the rain and the plant has the yogiros ability to bloom like crazy. The leaves are amazing. This is just about the healthiest fastest growing foilage I have seen in my garden. I suppose it is hybrid vigor.
I think I`ll grow the seeds off of these since they are thriving in my garden and select vines I want to keep and over so any years I might possibly get some flowers that I like and do well in my garden.
I`ll share seeds this fall but no guarantees on the outcome of the offspring since these are mixed. I have a hunch plenty will come out blizzard marked but you will see some with just rays or just blizzard or even just plain blue in light or dark possibly. I would love to keep the georgous foilage going and see one that had the lovely picoted edge with white and just about any color for the flower would make me happy...time and patience...maybe..maybe not!!!!
Here is one more photo of my flowers in the rain. I`ll send more later afer the plant really gets going with the blooms.
gorgeous... how do you all make these varieties... they are fantastic...
Brittany
This is a cross between two varieties of Japanese morning glory. I removed the pollen from the Ukigumo the night before and tied it back closed. Then I took the pollen off the youjiro and rubbed the pollen on the pistil of the Ukigumo flower. Then I labeled it as Ukigumo x yogiro because Ukigumo is the pod parent and the youjiro was the pollen parent.
What you see is a mix between the two flowers that will not come back true from seeds.
Some will have the same pattern possibly but there will also possibly be some with just blizzard pattern,some with just rays and even some that are plain blue. I`m only Guessing here so I`m not intending on spreading missinformation. There will possibly be variegated and non variegated foilage showing up in the second generation. Notice I said possibly indicating that it isn`t absolute.
I`m a hobbyist experimenting with my own flowers in my own backyard. I`m not a professional plant breeder but I`m enjoying a hobby.
I`m not here to teach anyone anything but here to share my experience growing flowers and to perhaps pick up on some advice and insight coming form other growers like myself.
The blizzard pattern and the white ray pattern are the dominant features(in this case) showing up in the first generation. You can see them in the pictures. There is No Way to tell what other genes and characteristics are hiding in there without genetic testing and that is way,way beyond my scope as a hobbyist growing a few flowers in my backyard.
I am not saying that these features will show up dominant in every cross that could be made or making any insinuation about the dominance of the characteristics other than they are apparent here in the results of This cross. It would be like me saying a black dog has the dominant black color...and not implying that they did or did not carry recessives for other colors or modifiers that would result in chocolate or blue colors.
The flowers are all going to be different much like the Ukigumo parents flowers all being different from almost solid to very blizzard to almost white in a few instances on the same vine.
These flowers carry for the variegated leaves so a percentage of the F2 flowers will either have variegated leaves or carry for the variegation.
My flowers are going to be called a Ukigumo/yogiro mix.
I will grow them out in my own backyard and select the healthiest vines and flowers I prefer for myself. Over years of time it is possible I could have a flower selected to suit me and my garden just fine.If I share or sell seed then the background and origin of the mixed seed will be told as well as "open pollinated" for any grown outside and not carefully hand pollinated.
Here are a few more. They are tidy little flowers like the youjiro,a bit larger than youjiro and the vines are broader leafed and fast growing sort of an improvement over both parents(In my own opinion) which may or may not show up again.
This message was edited Feb 13, 2007 11:12 PM
And thanks for any compliments :)
Here is a trio of the Ukigumo x youjiro.
This message was edited Feb 13, 2007 11:13 PM
Just georgeous!!
They're lovely
Congratulations on a very successful and beautifully stunning cross!
Keep up the "dabbling" efforts in your garden!!
Really Glad to see the intentional homestyle crossings happening and your clear and honest insight into the genetic 'mysteries'...
Go Man Go(!)..
TTY,...
Ron
Thanks for the compliments once again :)
Yesterday evening I tied blooms. This morning I carefully hand pollinated the ones I wanted to remain pure and washed my hands between sections of different varieties of vines. It is still possible for goofs to happen but this helps if your plants are outside and you don`t want the bees cross pollinating them.
My crosses I grew out earlier made me quite certain that I had better prepare some hand pollinated flowers for true seeds. I put a red yarn on all the hand pollinated to self or within the same kind of vines so I can find the pods later this fall. My fingers are crossed that my first attempts at this will yield true seeds. :)
The other pods are going to be shared as open pollinated and in mixes of seeds.
I`m looking forward to the seed trading this fall. It sounds like fun.
This message was edited Sep 14, 2006 2:00 PM
Wow gardener, that pic of the trio of the Ukigumo x yogiro is just the best!
And thanks for the idea of string to identify the vine. I have a pink surprise that just appeared and I want to try to get seed from it - but it's in the middle of a massive Grandpa Otts group. I'll have to try that.
I always like reading about what you're doing with MG's.
~Sunny
