Ooo Bev! I love your pic of "Engles" I can't wait for my order to arrive after seeing how lovely yours look.

@Eviesmummy: Kate, Glad that you caught the photo; it was after seeing your order list that I thought to take a pic to share. When a photo of it was offered as possible trade, I knew I wanted it. It's been a great little consistent semp since. I got 4 in the trade and still have 4. Hoping to have offsets this Spring?

I'm so glad you did take a pic, they look lovely. I hope you do get spring offsets

I finally got some photos of my little semp seedlings.
The heuffelii 'Musketeer' x 'Sempervivum 'Treebeard' is almost scary. Many of them are already showing red coloring. There must be a kazillion of them.


S. 'Oddity' x S. 'Red Lion' has maybe 5 seedlings. Very sad. Hopefully one of them will be worth the trouble.

Wow Lynn you are on your way to being a "hybridizer" maybe~

This is the easy part, now the waiting begins, to see if anything is worthy of having a name.

All 5 of those seedlings will be fabulous I'm sure!!!!! The other seedlings look good, love the red on some of those. Is this the first time you have made crosses and grown seedlings?

Yes it is Julia. I have had seedlings come up in the beds, when I was careless about keeping the spent blooms deadheaded.
@JungleShadows It's all Kevin's fault that I am doing this.

Sheesh! Wasn't it enough that you all got me into semps?! Now I'm getting interested in hybridizing too!

Looks like...kazillion and one, Lynn! Do you have a special technique to separating them? please share with us so that we can be in the "know". I don't have as much as you but separating at least a hundred plus can't be all that easy either...

JC: there's a hybridizing clinic gonna be held in May of this year in Oregon...

Bev, yeah I wish I could be there, but just not possible being in Kansas and all.
I have watched all of the videos that @JungleShadows did though.

Kevin your passion for hybridizing is spreading! Lynn in May I'll check out how yours are and then maybe I'll do some seed next year They look great!
@springcolor how are your seedlings Spring??

valleylynn said:
I finally got some photos of my little semp seedlings.
The heuffelii 'Musketeer' x 'Sempervivum 'Treebeard' is almost scary. Many of them are already showing red coloring. There must be a kazillion of them.

are you really sure?

that would be the first hybrid between heuffelii and sempervivum - that never works before;

Peter

Good morning Peter.
I can't be sure of it Peter. The seed came from Muskateer, so will know more when the plants start to mature. I did hand pollinate using the pollen from Treebeard. We will see what happens.

Sure wish you could come J.C. The clinic is free, and I could pick you up at the airport.

I have to check mine Greg, last I looked they were all green. How exciting maybe a cross as well as oddity seedlings!!!!

Guess what I found in my refrigerator..... a packet of seeds I got from Julia a couple of months ago.

I really meant to "winter" sew them but guess it is too late for that. Can I just sew them into a protected spot now?

Isn't it still cold where you are, Marilyn? I would do the milk jug technique and then put them outside. Just my 2 cents...

with you Bev.

Ok, Marilyn, that's two "You go Girl and sow dem seeds!!"

Thanks, It is going to be in high 60s today and low 40s tomorrow-- and that is just the way it is here in the foothills
of the Rockies. Up down, up down, up down snow as late as mid May.

I will get those seeds in some dirt today or tomorrow. Thanks, so much.