Thanks Cindy, when I do acquire one I'll let you know how it does down here in the south for comparison.
Crosses today are as followed:
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Daniel - I like how you are posting the database photos to your list of crosses. How fun!

Thanks Becky, I wish I could make the "X" bigger but I'm learning new things daily. I like this layout more than just the names also.
Today crosses are as followed:
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X miley greensleeves X Galaxy Explosion

miley greensleeves X Galaxy Explosion
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(Nicole's Tiger Eye x Mineral Springs) X (Nicole's Tiger Eye x Mineral Springs)
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Here are a few pods that have formed so far, I have more but figured I'd share these
Francis of Assisi


Avante Garde


Forbidden Fantasy



Forestlake Ragamuffin



Gram's Dream


Restless Heart


Collaboration



besides being fertile both ways Collaboration also peeks it's stigma out the night before blooming so you can do your crosses prebloom

Just for fun I crossed a hardy hibiscus with a rose of sharon a few days ago



and it looks like a pod is forming

I love making interspecific hybrids, I hope I get viable seeds

Daniel - Looks like some promising crosses! I hope they all produce seeds. That's neat about the crossing of your hibiscus!

I am already collecting seeds from the following:

CCC01 (Laughing Clown x Zanti Misfit) X Galaxy Explosion

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CCC01 (Laughing Clown x Zanti Misfit) X ZZZ38 (Galaxy Explosion x Lily Munster)

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CCC03 (Laughing Clown x Instant Graffiti) X Big Snowbird

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DDD21 (Ruffles A La Mode x Gram's Dream) X Betty Warren Woods

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CCC03 (Laughing Clown x Instant Graffiti) X ZZZ38 (Galaxy Explosion x Lily Munster)

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CCC82 (Buddy Hudson x unknown) X CCC107 (Drink the Light x God Save the Queen)

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(Galaxy Explosion x Lily Munster) What a lovely seedling. Thanks for sharing your crosses with us, great choices.

Thank you! The seed for that one (Galaxy Explosion x Lily Munster) came from Cindy (Hemlady), I believe I won it from one of her LA auctions.

Cindy has some great seeds and is a great person. I have several of her crosses that have yet to bloom for me but are putting on good growth.

Her seeds have produced some very hardy and rust-free seedlings in my garden! Now to see what kind of genes they pass on to their children!

on the 22nd and 23rd I made several crosses using Francis of Assisi as the pollen parent. I'm sad to say that every cross with Francis of Assisi failed. So I'd tried one more time today and if I don't get any pods this go around I'm giving up on FOA as a pollen parent. Here are today's crosses:

X (X2)

X (X4)

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Ok, it's not just me. Keep checking the FOA pods and let me know if you get seeds. I can't remember if FOA sets pods but aborts them for me or just never sets pods. My FOA is just starting to send up scapes so it won't bloom for me until mid-July.

Elena I put some FOA pollen on a dip also just to see what will happen.The FOA pod don't look to be growing as much as other pods but it could just be my imagination. I'll keep you updated.
Here are today's crosses:

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X

X (X4)

X (x2)

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The main crosses I have done this year are crossing some of my own toothy seedlings together.

I have also crossed tiny tease on several miniatures and smalls.

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Also put tiny tease on:

Nice crosses everyone!

Lisa - I hope you get lots of seeds and good germination of some of those mini crosses.

I, too, am dabbling in small blooming or miniature crosses:

Little Rosy Cloud X CCC05 (Laughing Clown x Zanti Misfit)

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My CCC05 is a small bloom and Little Rosy Cloud is am small bloom too. Not mini, but small. Maybe one of the seeds will produce a mini. I love CCC05 because of the shape and color of the blooms.

I also crossed Little Jet Setter with Little Rosy Cloud (LJS x LRC AND LRC x LJS):

Little Jet Setter X Little Rosy Cloud
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Little Jet Setter X CCC05
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As well as the CCC05 x LJS. I am not sure why CCC05 produced such small, brightly colored blooms. This is the second year of it blooming and it is still producing 5" blooms. Zanti Misfit produces much larger blooms at 8" and I am sure that Laughing Clown produces larger blooms, too. Funny how large blooming parents can produces a small blooming seedling. The foliage is a short leafed and smaller clump.

Great crosses, I hope you both get plenty of pods!
The pods on my dip X tet crosses are getting bigger and still look healthy will these be triploids if they make?

I am not a hybridizer...yet! I'm hoping that next summer I can try this, but for now, I'm appreciating all of your efforts!

Oh man. Listing the crosses would take forever. There are 5 that I have made repeatedly however:

Heavenly New Frontiers X Pretty much everything and anything that is open.
Hypatia X The Lady of Shalott
Michael's Sword X Emperor's Crocodile
Forestlake Briar Patch X Emerald Fangs
Good Time Blues X Expect Grace (my own seedling)

Good Time Blues


Expect Grace



I do appreciate a thread like this. Gives me ideas I may not have had.

JWWC said:Oh man. Listing the crosses would take forever. There are 5 that I have made repeatedly however:

Heavenly New Frontiers X Pretty much everything and anything that is open.
Hypatia X The Lady of Shalott
Michael's Sword X Emperor's Crocodile
Forestlake Briar Patch X Emerald Fangs
Good Time Blues X Expect Grace (my own seedling)

Good Time Blues


Expect Grace



I do appreciate a thread like this. Gives me ideas I may not have had.

The two pictured are beautiful

Sometimes the bees and moths beat you to the pistils Daniel and they are not you successfully doing diploid tetraploid crosses.