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Scatterbrain said:

@touchofsky

Thanks Valerie,

Already planing ahead to decide what to cross with purple pinwheel and the pinwheel seedling next year. I want to try and get a couple of purple pinwheel x aquamarine pods next year, the only one I had this year looked to be doing okay but then deflated after about 4 weeks.

Would love to get Aquamarine's lovely cool blue/lavender shade on a 'littly' if poss! Have three pods of Star Child x Aquamarine still looking okay so far-- about 4-5 weeks old now.

Wondering whether to try one or both with Honky Tonk Blues and will prob. try them with Star Child too. Everything else pretty much depends upon new ones flowering. Oh, almost forgot about Baby Blues, do you think I should try crossing her with one of these?

The ones I really hope flower next year are Ledgewood Calico Blues, Little Sea Sprite, Little Trooper and Elfin Illusion. Oh, and Child of Fortune and, and, and.....

Now I'm feeling bad that I haven't mentioned any of my orange, red, yellow ones!

Tried to get pods on Patchwork Puzzle but was working under the illusion that it is a tet (on the ahs and sellers sites)-- noticed however all its child plants are dips. so will try it with dips next year.

Edited --just talking about Aquamarine and realized that Inever mentioned her in the original post-think she would be classed as bitone. Colour is quite pink in the picture, in real life she is a very clear lavender and bright white (not ivory or cream-proper white).

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I had that happen with a number of pods this year, they did well for several weeks, then just shrivelled up. I tried several crosses this year with Baby Blues as a pod parent, and the only one that took was when I pollinated the day before the flower opened. The stigma was exposed. For good measure, I saved the pollen and repollinated the next day when the flower was opened. I didn't have any luck using Baby Blues as a pollen parent. I would try using Baby Blues in the crosses you have mentioned if I were you, though, and I hope they take!

I love all the cultivars you are planning on using