Rick--Single pollen, hand pollenation with typical reasonable and practical control protection. I don't peel back petals and protect the stigma, etc. until it's easily accessible, so technically I suppose one could call it a 'dirty pollenation'. But I wasn't looking for a technical answer but rather 'what is the first thing that comes to mind' when you see something like this.
Hence, 'a penny for your thoughts'. A penny for mine-------.
With me, I've always had a likeness for the one single, drastically different seedling that appears within a seed lot. So, when I see this my first thoughts are, I wonder what that one will be like and I wonder who the pollen parent is. It will be a real surprise for sure and until it blooms it will hold me in the mystic of the unknown. It adds a second dimension of interest away from the ordinary ho-hum of growing seedlings with me. Something I look forward to. Of the 40 or so (n + 1) pots I have out there right now, there are 16 with one or two seedlings each that appear way outside the usual bell curve distribution. That's 16 little value added reasons that make hybridizing so interesting to me.
