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Sep 9, 2016 1:38 PM CST
Name: Ken Ramsey
Vero Beach, FL (Zone 10a)
Bromeliad Vegetable Grower Region: United States of America Tropicals Plumerias Orchids
Region: Mississippi Master Gardener: Mississippi Hummingbirder Cat Lover Composter Seller of Garden Stuff
Yep. Unless the plants are kept in completely controlled conditions, and pollinated by hand so that the pollinator is precisely known, each seedling will be a one-of-a-kind plant. The seedlings may be similar to the pod-parent, but not necessarily so, and certainly won't be a copy of the pod-parent. I will never know where the pollen came from. I know that my plants supplied the pollen (there may not be another plumeria in a 100 square mile area!), but I have over a dozen varieties that flowered in the spring/summer. I guess my plumeria can also self pollinate, but I will never know that. All I can do is list the pod-parent. When these seedlings flower, that's when I put a name to them.

I assume, particularly with the one that has 12 seed-pods, that every single flower could have been pollinated by a different plant, and thus, each seedling germinated from those twelve pods may be different. I guess, since these pods are growing by two's, and each two are from the same flower, I will have six different possibilities. This has gotten to be really fun stuff.
drdawg (Dr. Kenneth Ramsey)

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