Good advice, Rick, on your labeling scheme, and it's nice to see Luka's crosses too. I started using bread bag clips this year and it seems to work ok. They are very inexpensive to buy online.
Fortunately one side of the clip has a matt finish and pencil works fine on this; less so on the shinier side. As usual I have more crosses than I can practically handle once the seeds are ripe. Among the crosses I have made, the first picture is of a henryi hybrid x henryi var. citrinum cross, which has produced some of the largest pods I have seen. They are weighing down the plant they are so heavy. I have also crossed L. leucanthum var. centifolium and also sargentiae onto both the henryi hybrid and henryi var. citrinum. The lower picture shows the henryi crosses back onto sargentiae. These pods are maturing very slowly, and coupled with the late flowering it is debatable whether these will fully ripen on the plant before the autumn rains start. I am now more familiar with Darm Crook's "potato nursery" trick than I was last year, so hopefully I will be able to get these sargentiae crosses ripened indoors if needs be. (Last year they rotted.)
Wishing everyone success with their crosses this year!
