After a long wait, watching the various stages of development with anticipation the first bloom from this seedling has proven to be worth the wait.
Finally!! Painted Lady x Peanut has opened up!! I Love it!!
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She is Beautiful..You must be very proud..Love the tendrils and the color....:)
Great looking Tendrils, you must be a happy Daddy!
It really is exciting to watch a new plants first bloom.
So pretty and I love the tendrils too.
Wonderful bloom! Knock out tendrils!.
Just beautiful!
Karen
Beautiful Gary, can't wait to see it's 5 tendril bloom.
MMMMMMMMMMM Lovely... one you have there Gary
now... where is mine.. I'm sure it's in a favored spot.. seeing such a lovely one.. makes me want to don my headlight.. and go out in the middle of the night.. just to check on it.. and see that she's ok.. it was small..and had maybea couple of dark flowers last year.. and it did right well through the winter. anyone surviving winter here.. is considered as having done real well.... thanks again Gary
Abolutely UNbelievable! WOW! ♥
Very nice !
the color is just incredible!
She has proven to be easy to root also. I'm going to take her to NY this summer to trial her in a different climate and if all goes well I will probably register her.
Gary,
Is she still putting out 6 pointers? She is gorgeous. I hope she does well for you in NY.
Nope Betty the rest were all 5 pointers...as I expected. 6 pointers are pretty rare but of course not unheard of. I just wasn't expecting it from a first bloom.
Do you know if anyone has studied what causes the formation of 6 pointers? Or tried pollinating a 6 pointer bloom with pollen from Jacayna. I'm wondering if doing so increases the chances of getting 6 pointer offspring.
No, I haven't but I can only assume that it is a recessive gene that shows up from time to time. I would assume from a genetics standpoint if you continue to breed those cultivars with that recessive gene you will eventually come up with a cultivar that makes that recessive gene a dominant gene and consistently comes up with six pointers, but that just isn't one of my goals right now. Disease resistant yellows, broad mite resistance, heat resistance, and snail resistant varieties are where my mind set is right now. And of course BEAUTY!!!
This message was edited Jun 5, 2009 2:43 PM
Re. heat resistance (also an interest of mine): How do these blooms hold their form in the heat? The shape is lovely -- high tendrils with a flouncy skirt. I get tired of the ones that flop until the sun goes down. How is the substance of the bloom?
I want to ask about your work with disease-resistant yellows, but I don't want to derail the thread. I'll start a new one.
Great job!