Emma's Fuji Wisteria Tie Dye

I have only two photos uploaded from today, but will add some more later on tonight or tomorrow.

This is a beauty..

#2 (I want these to make Seeds)... lol.

That is such a neat bloom. Love the speckles!

It's so pretty. Love it.

Isn't this a neat MG!
One of my very favorites.

Antoinette,
Your bloom looks like the lighter Fujishibori.
Most have more Plum-Purple Color, and one has more of a Creamy background color.

Here is one of my photos from a couple of days ago of the darker version.

Emma

I love it! Where would I order seeds of this one?

wow that is something..id love to have something like that too!

pam

Gourd,

I have yet to see a speckled flower in my garden. I bought three different kinds and they were speckled Nots.... one day...one day...!!!!

I`m even going through the trouble of a grow out of hand tied pods on one that was supposed to be giant orinoco. They Are giant but the speckles are kind of missing you see? I`m hoping a grow out will get me a few speckled flowers.

Or I could do some trading with you if you get plenty of seeds and could spare some. If you see any of mine you want to trade for send me Dmail.

Karen

Isn't this a wonderful JMG . . .

I also have one vine of the lighter colored form growing as well.
The parent seeds did come from Japan and have stayed TRUE for now 4-years. All are Open Pollinated.

I'll post some of my other blooms when they first started to bloom that I have saved on another DVD. One of my first blooms of the darker form had either 7 or 8 rays, can't remember which. I'll post that photo too.

Emma

Emma, I would love to trade with you.

This must be a recessive trait that breeds true every time and your flowers have ability to go to self. That means you have a placement of anthers and plenty of healthy pollen so the flower can go to self and breed true each year.

But I still wouldn`t take chances... If you are growing lots of other nils. There is still chances of cross pollination if you have other nils growing near by even though so far things have gone well.

Karen

Hi Karen,

Yes, my Fujishibori has remained TRUE every year I have grown it with zero exceptions. I rarely self pollinate my blooms. I don't have the time or the patience. So, I take what I get and just enjoy them. Actually with the HUNDREDS of nils that I grow each year, I get well over 95 +++% of my MGs remaining TRUE. And, what doesn't remain True, is just as incredible.

However, on some of the more rare vines that I will be growing next, I will be doing a lot of self pollinating with most of them.

I also hope to do some cross pollinating with my Fujishibori blooms, after my new granddaughter is born next week, when I can concentrate on my MGs . Bet I can come up with some awesome crosses.

Imagine a FEATHERED FUJISHIBORI *-*

Emma

Here is a great bloom from last year

Another from last year

Really Close Up

Do you notice the tall high up over the pistil anthers? That helps the flower go to self. These would be a real cinch to bag. You wouldn`t have to mess with them much because you`d look in there and see the flower already pollinated itself. My blue youjiros are like this too and very easy to work with.


In flowers tending to be low on pollen or ones with short anthers positioned underneath the pistil there is more possibilty bees will smear pollen off of a different flower and affectively cross pollinate them.

This message was edited Jul 13, 2007 12:58 PM

Not a great photo, but this is the Fujishibori Lighter Form from this year

Same Bloom REALLY CLOSE

Emma, incredible photo's. Love the 3 different shades in the middle pic

Jackie

Yes, those are incredible pictures! :)

Thank you Jackie and Karen,

Here is another from this year

Sorry, Antoinette, not trying to hijack your thread. Just trying to show the different variations of these awesome blooms

Another great bloom

Seven Rays on this one

Seven Rays
and
Eight Rays

One more with 8-Rays

Oh no Emma, this is great, I need your input and I love your photos.. I hope mine self over here. There were about 6 blooms this morning but all wet from the rain and wind this morning, not photogenic today.

Hijack away..lol.. I put alot of photos on Picasa and don't know how to retrieve them yet... will be trying later again..
A.

Antoinette,
did you only plant the one seed that is producing the Light Form?
or do you have others that haven't yet bloomed that may be the Darker Form?

Emma

I sowed all four seeds and there are two vines in there, I think the first one that bloomed is darker, but I don't know how to get my photos out of Picasa yet..
A.

Here is one that I thought was already open, but it opened up completely the next day about a month ago. I thought something was wrong with it and did not know that is how it looked before it opened up.

here it is open.. I tried to save every photo on picasa so that I can use my image card (it was full) so that is why they are put somewhere in space..lol

Wow, Antoinette . . .
Look at the difference in your Anthers from your photo that I cropped
and my photo here
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=3732019

Who knows how to do a side by side?
Jerry isn't here and I don't know.

Here is your photo cropped

Here is a side by side. It looks like that particular one with brown in the middle probably did not make seeds. The ones with the white pistil,anthers and powdery pollen usually do make pods.

This one here looks healthy and favorable for making seed pods.

http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=3732134

This message was edited Jul 13, 2007 5:08 PM

Thanks Karen,

Emma and everyone,

I tiptoed outside this morning and look who I saw flowering!

Joseph

Oh Joseph, she's beautiful...

I was able to get a couple of photos this morning before hand pollinating... hopefully some will stick..

Here she is with her sisters..lol

So nice, looks like a scoop of Breyer's new flavor ice cream!

Joseph,
ALL RIGHT!

You did get those babies going.
VERY PRETTY TOO. . .

Antoinette,
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PHOTO.
UNBELIEVABLE ! ! !

Emma

Amazing!!! Those are absolutely wonderful. What a nice picture. :)

Thanks guys, Thanks Emma,

I love this speckled flower.. today it had a couple of flowers, but I quickly played bee and closed them up...lol I hope the darker one comes out again. This had been thru hail and wind, lost all of its leaves at one time.

you gotta do, what you gotta do..

A.