I'm really enjoying seeing the seedlings bloom and the vast variety of different things that are turning up. I made mostly wide crosses and some of the seedlings have SDB size blooms on very tall stems. Very few even approach the quality of the varieties used in the crosses. In some crosses all the seedlings have similar coloring to one of the parents. In other crosses the coloring resembles neither parent. It has made me even more appreciative of the talented serious hybridizers and their ability to choose the parents, patiently raise hundreds of seedlings, and rigorously select from those seedlings. Then they increase them for a few years and if things turn out we get a chance to buy one.
