It can be fun to breed your own zinnias - Part 37

7 years ago

Hello everyone,

Welcome to this ongoing message thread. Once again, the previous part of this continuing series, It can be fun to breed your own zinnias - Part 36,
has over 100 messages and is causing slow message loading problems,
so we are continuing the series here for yet another fresh start.

The same guidelines apply here. Anything remotely related to zinnias
is fine. (Or feral cats or locusts or whatever.) As always, if any of you have any comments, questions, or pictures to post, they are always welcome. More later.

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samhain10 - 5a

7 years ago

Hi all -

Just sent a message to Houzz detailing my issue about no notifications. Hopefully they can clear up the problem.

Rosealice - I remember that top photo you just posted for ninecrow - amazingly beautiful! If you saved the seeds from it and those others, then, as ZM likes to remind us, you may see a return of some of those features in the next generation.

I end up loosing control over the crosses here and get greedy, saving
as much seed as I can--anyway, I have few "pure" plants of anything in
my garden so predictability is pretty low.

So - are you saying you're not keeping records of your crosses? Or that you are gathering all the fertile seed from a specific head even though you know you personally didn't perform the crosses on all those petals? If the latter, then this is the thing with me about trying to mark my individual crosses that ZM finds amusing. I run into the mental dilemma when gathering seed from a bloom - is this my cross or a self-cross, or worse - did some bee bring pollen from a neighboring plant so that my designation of the cross is totally meaningless - except that I at least know the female donor? I guess it doesn't really matter except that I'm new at this and I want to know.

Ninecrow - here are some other non-pinks of mine from this season for you: