Bump it! This thread satrted 8 years ago. There are a lot of interesting discussions and reports. The subject of tomatillo's fertility seems to be still not well understood. I, myself, have experimented with SINGLE plant , 3 times in 3 different season and have gotton the results proving that a single tomatillo plant is self pollinating and fertile. My last experiment was in 2013 season. Albeit , it came too late in the season here in PNW and the fruits inside the husk did not grow to full size I was going NOT TO plant tomatillo this year, but just to prove myself for the 4th time, I am going to plant JUST ONE again this year. I am going to plant it in a pot this time. I suspect, MAYBE, tomatillo is daylight/length sensitive and it won't set fruits when daylight is like 13 to 16 hours. That is why my plant last year suddenly burst into husks in August. Anther issue maybe the variety. As there are tomatoes that are tolerant to cold or hot weather probably there are similar tomatillos too. I will do a search about it and will report it here.

thats cool. im interested in crossing a purple peacock broccoli [(which is a red russian kale x green goliath broccoli) (picture below) (in my opinion the head is small and loose but is ok for only being half broccoli. i can see why the parent had to be green goliath. it says on sites that it has plenty of side shoots at least.)] with some other type of broccoli or something. im really interested in making a late bolting broccoli for here in central florida by crossing a heirloom huge head broccoli with a collard. This guy http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/kalards-a-kale-collard-cabbage-cross/ claims/thinks and has a picture of a green glaze collard (which is already a collard x cabbage hybrid) x "dragon" kale. What do you guys think? also theodosia im down to trade seeds with you.

I knew I'd forget something: Since Lilium x formolongi plants are continuously growing, the bulb stays very small. With several stalks in a plant, the bulb looked to be only about the size of a quarter in a photo he showed. And we each got a packet of L. x formolongi seed to play with too.

I'd grow as many plants as you can fit comfortably in your yard, then see if they produce seeds or not. If not, then you can come back here and we'll be happy to provide you with more seeds or plants to add genetic diversity. You're getting way ahead of yourself and over thinking. Just enjoy this stage of your current garden. Will you post pictures of each of your milkweeds? I'm quite sure that the different types of milkweeds can't cross pollinate. But, there may be other milkweed plants within bug flying distance of your yard that could cross. Martha