Seedlings to Register, Later Ones I Like, Some to Sell or Share
Seedling "G---y Cats" is doing well this season and will be registered later this year. While it hasn't reached the 24-28 bud counts it achieved in year 3 in the seedling bed, it does have many scapes with 19-20 buds this year. Blooms are 7 inches plus, and scapes are 29-30 inches. The plant is a dormant ML bloomer. ( Back Scratcher x Trimmer seedling). It does display some teeth and claws on its white edge, and it throws some kids with teeth. You know it's a fast multiplier because I have 20 fans. Here are a couple of clump shots from the past week.
Here's a closeup:
The other seedling I will be registering is Precious Cancy X Twilight Illusion #1. While it hasn't gotten as many buds (18-23) as years two and three, it does have several scapes with 17 buds this season. A semi-evergreen EM bloomer, it has 5.5 inch blooms on 28 inch scapes. It's also fast multiplier.
In shade with cool temps
In sun when it's hotter
Here are some new seedlings that are blooming in the late season. Both are ML bloomers.
A Floyd Cove beauty X The Ultimate Sacrifice - It has a rosy red petal color with a deep rose pink watermark and heavy gold edge. The bloom is 6.5 inches and the scape, which is only 24 inches this first season, has four-way branching and 14 buds. I think if this were not surrounded by seedlings with multiple fans shading it, the scape would be taller and the bud count greater. Two-year-old seedling, first-time bloomer.
in shade
in sun, with a better look at the edge
I'm liking this near white ML bloomer, which I have shown once before. It's gotten better since then.
August Frost X Winter's Angel - 7 inch flower on 29 inch scape with four-way branching and 14 buds. It has a small sawtooth gold edge. First year seedling. It's either dormant
in the shade
in the sun
Here's a picture of the father, Winter's Angel. I still have one fan of it. It's tender and loses fans in bad winters. My goal was to produce a daylily with the look of Winter's Angel on a hardier plant. I think the seedling is dormant, or semi-evergreen with a lot of dormancy in it.
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Some seedling photos. Hope you like them
Comments (13)All but the second one (the cupped one, it is a one year old in the picture. Lakeside Fresh Prince x Steve Moldovan ) are all 3-5 years old. The 4th one is very pretty. It was kind of buried under some giants. The 3rd one is my favorite. It is very large and my photography does not do it justice. My well water has a lot of iron in it and leaves a lot of stains on the leaves. None are registered but am planning on doing so in the future. I have been trying to be patient and let them mature. Noting flower colors, scape height, leaf size, growth rate and fertility. I am naming the 3rd one Lakeside Anything's Possible in memory of Roy Chastain. It was something Roy had said in a conversation while my son and I were there in 2009. Roy recently passed at the age of 90. Roy was a classic gentleman and will be greatly missed by all who knew him....See MoreI would like to share with you my new seedlings
Comments (15)Ooooh!!! I would buy Scently Divine and Judy Lynn. Judy - how cool would that be to have a rose in your yard that has your name!!! Scently Divine has such a delicate lavender with a lovely darker blush on the edges of the petals - that is soooooo lovely!!!!! Any fragrance? Judy Lynn has that stuffed look and the lovely quilled points. Osiana looks fabulous too. I love that shade of apricot. Thanks so much for the look!!! You are a wonderful hybridizer!!! Carol...See MoreMDODs appliances one year later
Comments (4)Thanks for sharing too! Our Bosch oven is similar on the timer and it is taking me a while to get the hang of that. Our Bosch 36" induction cooktop is also larger than a standard 36" cabinet and we had to upgrade on that as well. One of the quirky things about induction is that you keep turning it up because it doesn't seem to be heating visually than end up turning it way down for the simmer. Still getting used to ours after 6 months....See MoreSeedlings dying one by one
Comments (26)The other half of the plants I gave away to a friend. What made the difference between all the seedlings that died? It could be a few things: 1) More water but less often. I now waited till the soil was dry enough that when watering from the top the water would rush straight through. So I either watered in two steps from the top, or from the bottom even though that gas a risk of infecting other plants is pythium would be in one plant's soil. 2) I now used paper coffee cups for the seedlings instead if transparent plastic cups. I got the impression that the sun would get the soil too hot and humid with the transparent cups because of the growth of algae in those cups. If algea grow then so do bacteria and fungi. 3) As recommended in this thread I added a small amount of H²O² to every watering and did a soak of the stem and top soil with a higher concentration every so often. I think this one made a real difference. 4) I watered mostly with distilled water when the plants were still little. The water here is very hard, perhaps too hard, hinted by a few seedlings that developed an iron deficiency. 5) Eeeaasssyyy on the feeding. Another mistake that could've prevented the plants from getting enough nutrition was perhaps thinking that more food is better, but it makes them obese weak couch potatoes that don't have the strength to fight any disease. 6) I kept the plants in the shade of one of the trees almost permanently. It's only since a week that I'm putting them in full sun. Yesterday was the first day where they didn't need to be out back in the shade during the afternoon heat. I think this one made a huge difference as well, as none of the shaded seedlings collapsed like in the original post's picture. Besides, the half-shade of an olive tree on Crete is about the same intensity as full-sun in the Netherlands. Also it helped me, as it caused the plants to consume less water, so I wasn't bound to the caravan with watering duty as much. It's nice to take care of plants, but they're also very limiting to freedom. It's too late for the year for them to grow fruit. Perhaps the Cayenne can still get one or two peppers, as the growing season here lasts all the way into half-way November. But I don't mind. This last batch was more of a last try for me to synchronise with the climate here, and chili plants have no problem overwintering, so next year I have an early start. Some things to do differently next year: - Start early, but keep the seedlings protected from the big differences between night and day temperatures in the winter and early spring. Perhaps make a banana-box mini-greenhouse to keeo the temperature more stable. - Build some kind of automatic watering system so the plants won't chain me to the terrain with watering duty. If someine has ideas for low-tech diy ways preferably with recycled materials like bottles then please let me know. I though of using bottles with a pinhole in the cap, but that would keep the soil perma-moist, which would promote rot? - Be more positive. - Find a friend. :)...See Moreshive
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