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A seedling from the garden today

a 'Sea Prize' seedling




thanks for peeking

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A couple seedlings for today.

It has been too hot here for good seed set this past few weeks, I am guessing that roughly 2/3 of the flowers that I had pollenated have fallen off.

Always a good thing here to have early bloomers.

Have a great weekend everyone
Rod

A couple seedlings for today

hosta 'Cosmic Hippie X hosta 'Carolina Blue'

and

hosta 'Cosmic Hippie' X hosta 'Blue Belly'

Hope you enjoy them.

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Dave, I believe that by crossing these seedlings back to their mothers and doing this for a few years I will have produce a streaked plant that is very tough, fertile and stabile. Of course if it was not fun for me to see what happens when I do these crosses I would not even be growing seeds. It rea...

Thanks for the encouragment folks (like I need it to grow my streakers) it is always nice to know that others like some of the same looks in a hosta. It is hard to see the true amount of sumstance in a picture but I am trying to breed this into my seedlings as I always have a slug problem and they a...

Thanks Everyone,
I am glad that you enjoyed them and thanks for the possitive feedback. What looks good to me does not always look good to others. I am hoping for some good babies from these in the future also.
Have a great weekend, Rod

Sure,
I like to use pollen from mother plants back onto their babies.

You know I am from Iowa

Here are a couple seedlings from Hosta 'Grandchild' and hosta 'Hot Flash' both hosta were crossed with pollen from hosta'Dorothy Benedict'

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Gloria,
growing hosta seed is an enjoyable hobby for the winter months.
If you are looking for more information you can checkout my website to see a few methods and ideas from hybridizers.

good luck and happy growing, hostarod

Here are a couple seedling picture's from today.

You just have to love those seedlings.

here are the parents for these as I forgot to mention it.
crazy quilt x blue belly and a dorset clown x beer belly blues

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There has been more spottings of the orange hatted guys digging in other parts of the state of Iowa.
Beware and watch out for your streaked hosta.

Have Shovel will Dig

Hi All,
We visited Stark Gardens today and found out that Eric got a new introduction sport out of 'Summer Breeze' and it is called 'Mango Tango'
It will be a 2008 introduction from Stark Gardens..

Rod and Jeroen

having way to much fun

Just thought that I would check in and see who all will be in Davenport for the convention.
Here are a couple seedling leaves.
Hostarod

I need to put in my 2 cents worth here and say that hosta 'Ghost Spirit' does not set seeds.
Sorry to spoil the day, Rod

Hi Rob,
very nice site and great picture's on your website.
Thanks for sharing your photo's.
Rod

Very Nice Jeroen,
I like the look of this one too.

Rod

Donna, to get some little streaked babies it is best to always use a streaked mom plant as the pod parent. If you do this you will get some streaked little ones. The rate of streaked to green is always different but 30 percent is O.K. some times it will be 90% or 0% you just never know. To me that i...

Thanks everyone for the possitive support and comments at this time when I have so many issues to deal with. Linda, DB seeds need to be treated with lots of attention to do well, they can die off for no reason at all. I believe that there are two seedlings here from different DB seedling crosses. I ...

O.K. so that did not work out and here I thought that we had some good story tellers among us. So lets hear it or share your seed starting methods. Please, Rod