Emma's Gray Morning Mist

I started this one 4-15-07 and here is the first bloom.

#photo 2 in sunlight

Sideview 1

Sideview 2

That's a real nice one, A. I like it!!!

Really nice uniform color!

Joseph

Awesome photos Antoinette,
Thanks for sharing. . .

Emma

Here is one from this morning..

Antoinette, Another pretty Bloom,

Here is mine from yesterday that I chopped part of the top off of . . .
Still true year #4
Open Pollinated

Emma

Ohh your's is gorgeous.. is mine supposed to have picotee edge? I love it..
A.

I have another question, does open pollinated mean that I don't have to worry about closing up the petals each morning? I've been doing that every morning on almost all the mgs. sometimes I don't even take photos because I am too worried about them crossing, trying to keep them true.

A.

Hi Antoinette,

Most of my blooms of Gray Morning Mist have had the margined picotee edge like in my photo. Sometimes very slight, and sometimes no picotee edge, but always with the Steel Gray Color and Pastel Pink Halo drifting into the White Throat. Also, you can see a faint White ring outside the Pastel Pink Halo.

Open Pollinated means that I have done nothing to insure that my blooms will remain 'True'. I leave them for the wind and insects to pollinate.

Unless you have bees and other insects that sleep in, you have to get up at the crack of dawn or before to insure that your blooms will not cross-pollinate. In other words, you need to beat the insects to your blooms.

3 or so years ago, I would twist or squish my blooms together to 'somewhat' help that they didn't cross-pollinate. But that ended up to be an all morning thing because of all of the MGs that I grow and I really wasn't accomplishing the purpose. Now, when I want to keep a few pods of a particular MG 'True', I go through the steps of hand-pollinating them - then, I close the blooms off with a zippy bag or newspaper that I have folded in a manner to close off the blooms, securing with a twist tie.

Here are a couple of my Gray Morning Mist Blooms from last year, since I only have one bloom so far this year to compare.

Emma

Another bloom in the rain. . .

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