Shive's Seedlings So Far
I'd been waiting for Natalie Antoinette X Symphony of Praise to start blooming, and it had its ffo today. This is a three-year-old seedling that first bloomed last year with only five buds. This year it has 12 buds in the part-shade seedling bed. The major change was the size of the bloom. Last year it was just under 6 inches. Today's bloom was just over 7 inches. Scapes this year are 28 inches.
Here's the seedling from another angle with SOT X RR #2 in the background. You can see how much larger this pink is. I love the wide, blunt sepals.
Part of my clump of Cosmic Sensation X Alan Lane Agin is doing well. The two scapes that get the most sun are 30 inches tall. The one with the most sun has four-way branching and 24 buds. The other tall scape has 20 buds. The remaining four scapes are shaded too much by the Sun Bear monster and short scapes and not many buds.
Here's a group shot of the same seedling. The big seed pod is this seedling crossed with Mayans' Dawn.
Sun Bear X Julie Newmar #2 got shaded out by its sibling, so its stats are not a good as in past years when it had 18-20 buds per scape. The bloom is 7 inches - usually on 30-inch scapes, but this year on a variety of heights due to too much shading.
The early white seedling, Dust Be Diamonds X Tuxedo Junction also had a variety of scape heights. The blooms were mostly 7 inches. The blooms always look as pretty in the evening as they do in the morning. Before the neighbor's trees matured, this seedling had 18-20 buds per scape.
Into the Mystic X Symphony of Praise also suffered from too much shade. The scape with the most sun has four-way branching and 26 buds.
Here's another look at the Sun Bear X Julie Newmar #1 giant clump. I like the body of the plant, but I'd like a larger bloom on those tall 37-40 inch scapes. The blooms are 6.5 inches. I've also been discouraged on the very hot days with the heat index at 97-100 with the blooms melting and looking brownish.
Here's Precious Candy X Twilight Illusion #1, also the victim of too much shade this year. It's shorter than it's past year's height of 30 inches. It also lack the lateral branching it's had in the past.
Here's another look at Precious Candy X Twilight Illusion #2.
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Comments (3)Britt, That's a lot of wonderful news and some great photos. I'm glad all your hard work, attention to detail and research is paying off. There are not too many years when we have March temperatures running 20 degrees above average for such a long period of time and are able to plant our warm-season crops as early as we can this year. I've been enjoying every bit of the warm temps too and planting like a maniac, trying to do all I can before next week's heavy rains make the garden too muddy to walk into. Just remember that you'll need to be able to cover up and protect your warm-season plants if a late freeze or even a chance of frost hits. It is still a little on the cool side for blackeyed peas. Southern peas dislike any cool weather and we are supposed to be quite a bit cooler next week after the big rain system hits. You can direct-sow southern peas in the ground when the air temps have remained 65 degrees or higher at planting depth for three consecutive days. The assumption is that once the soil temps get that warm, they stay there, but that's not necessarily true. At this time of year, with a freakishly early warm-up, we may see soil temps on something of a roller coaster for a few more weeks. My soil has just hit the right pea-planting temperature this week here in southern OK and I haven't planted peas yet because I expect the soil temp will drop back into the 50s next week. I generally like to wait until soil temps are near 70 before sowing southern pea seed. They'll emerge in soil at 65 degrees, but will lack vigor and will be prone to disease if the soil temps go back down lower than 65. Last year's early warm-up was hard on the cool-season peas, and mine stalled for a while during a warm spell early in the season and then they resumed growth and began producing after it cooled off a little. They haven't been too happy with temps in the 80s this week either and it is sort of like last spring all over again, but I expect next week's rain and cooler temps will please them a great deal. I think it likely that your cannas will be just fine. They bloom very well for me with only morning sun through about 11 a.m. and no direct sun after that. They are mostly in dappled shade even in the morning hours, except for the first hour or two after sunrise. They've bloomed well in their present location for about 10 years. Dawn...See MoreOnly one seedling so far.
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