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Lily Pad Seedling
Posted: Aug 26, 2016 8:10 am
by redcrx
Re: Lily Pad Seedling
Posted: Aug 27, 2016 2:09 pm
by Carol O
Here's Lily Pad x Ringtail, from 2015.
Re: Lily Pad Seedling
Posted: Aug 29, 2016 8:44 am
by redcrx
The flower head exploded today - I had been worried about deformed flowers earlier but these all look fine now.
- Lily Pad OP 12 - August 29, 2016
Re: Lily Pad Seedling
Posted: Aug 30, 2016 12:20 am
by Carol O
Are you going to cross them with anything?
I really like how shiny the Lily Pad seedlings are.
Re: Lily Pad Seedling
Posted: Oct 22, 2016 3:40 pm
by waldo
Very nice flower, would be a good start to an improved flower in our hostas. I really like the spider type flowers.
Re: Lily Pad Seedling
Posted: Oct 22, 2016 9:30 pm
by Chris_W
I agree, I think the spiders are really nice, though a bit small usually.
Here I have a Korean Snow x Maraschino Cherry seedling where the flowers are still spidery but getting bigger. The seedlings is a bit shiny, but not as shiny as these, and a pure white edge on a couple leaves but not the whole eye. I'm hoping it is worth sharing a picture next year.
Re: Lily Pad Seedling
Posted: Nov 01, 2016 8:34 am
by redcrx
Hi Carol, none of the crosses took.
Re: Lily Pad Seedling
Posted: Nov 16, 2016 12:16 am
by Carol O
Too, bad. Did you get any seeds that you are going to grow this winter?
Re: Lily Pad Seedling
Posted: Nov 16, 2016 12:54 am
by redcrx
I got a lot of crosses using pollen from Dostoyevsky (red flower) - some selfs, a large bunch of Koriyama pods (probably get really dark flowers), a couple of Curly Fries pods (not sure I have viable seeds), a couple of clausa normalis pods (another with probably really dark flowers), a couple of pods on The Perfect Storm (these ought to be interesting), a bunch of pods off a plant I have labeled All Plain Green that is out of Art Wrede's work (it's an "odd" plant because it is plain - no color in the petiole, no white on the back of the leaves, just a boring plant but I'm hoping it will put out red flowers). I got a couple of pods from tsushimensis with Dostoyevsky using what I was calling "old" pollen - the pollen was a couple of days old - Dostoyevsky was done flowering and then I realized I had tsushimensis well into flowering.
I did a lot of crosses with Redback Tavern X First Blush but only got a couple tiny pods - probably no viable seed.