So in the past I have marked my pollinated lilies with a tag that included the important info. This is good because it provides a fail-safe option if I get my record keeping mixed up. But it is very time consuming.
Last year I started with this - using blue painter's tape and just my hybridizing code. The task went so much faster, and it was a test to make sure everything held up to the weather and stayed legible through the summer. It does fine.
But the big blue tape was really annoying, detracting from any aesthetics the garden had. In other words, it was ugly. So this year it all got miniaturized with only the most necessary info: the number designated to that cross for this year. Actually, I could use the green frog tape to hide it even more, but I'm afraid I might lose track of pods that never develop. I think this is a good compromise. An added benefit is the ease at which I can photograph pods without having to separately record their identity. These pics take Aug 31.
TxO-5 x 1454-5
(15-157 Blue Flash x Purple Heart) x 1454-5
Anastasia x Sarabande
AxST-4 x Pink Attraction
I thought this one was going to shrivel, as sometimes pods first seem to take but then go downhill. But it has since plumped up.
Emily x 65-254
Time to harvest these:
Lilium dauricum (from seed from Sakhalin Island) x L. dauricum (from seed from Kingham Mtns)
Lilium martagon var. albiflorum x albiflorum pollen from Jim McKenney
Lilium tsingtauense OP
Various 1454 crosses
Lilium formosanum var. pricei
(Lilium longiflorum x L.henryi) x RR133-1
I have a trumpet like lily that I bred of questionable parentage.
IF my records are right, it has the possibility of getting genes from L. davidii, L.majoense and an aurelian.
This left pod is crossed with my asiatic hybrid 1460-9, and the second pod with Straciatella Event. It's unlikely anything will come of them, but interesting that pods are even produced.
Also from this questionably mixed parent is a pod pollinated with pollen form another of my hybrids: an old yellow asiatic hybrid crossed with a mix of Winnipeggy and L. majoense pollen. Again, progeny unlikely.
And what about this one: with that same questionable parent lily, both pods crossed with Caravan (an OT).
