Viewing post #1200909 by drdawg

No. I know the seed-pod parent of several of my seedlings but have no clue who they are with many others. In my opinion it really doesn't matter a great deal to even know the seed-pod parent though. The seedlings will never be true to the parent (even if you know that the plant was self-pollinated). The plants and flowers may have characteristics of the seed-pod parent, but nothing more. That's the fun of growing from seed. You neither know what the plant nor the flower will look like. I have some seedlings from a couple of compacts and I do hope those seedlings will at least be compacts. I can't tell yet.

Here are two examples of knowing the seed-pod parent and then the seedling's flower:

Plumeria rubra Bill Moragne - seed-pod parent

Plumeria DD's Delight - my seedling


Plumeria rubra Volare - seed-pod parent

Plumeria rubra Kathryn's Fuchsia Fantasy - my seedling

You can see a bit of the characteristics with K's Fuchsia Fantasy and the seed-pod parent but I would never know that the DD's Delight was related to Bill Moragne. I now have a couple of seedlings growing from seed-pods of Kathryn's Fuchsia Fantasy, and it will be interesting to see whether these seedlings' flowers resemble their mother's.