I'm going to try to add some pics/parents in the spirit of the post.
Margaret's Spirit (Todd)
I ordered a few sets of seeds from Margaret's Spirit the first year I tried planting seeds. Steve Todd lives in my original home town, and his plants are kind of awesome, so that first year, I bought Margaret Spirit seeds. These aren't all still "keepers", but it's the thought that counts.
Margaret's Spirit x Thank You Dad -These are all different seedlings. Kinda similar looking. The first one is a much paler yellow in real life.
Margaret's Spirit x Pinewood Lily Pad
And then I took that last group, Margaret's Spirit x Pinewood Lily Pad, and as a project/experiment, crossed them all with a plant called Adorable Curls. Here are some kids from that:
I picked these because they are all very different from each other, even though they share the same parents' genetics. And I show them to you because the last step in my project with these Margaret's Spirit seedlings, I crossed these four siblings last summer with the same parent, which happened to be the first picture of the Margaret's Spirit x Thank You Dad cross above. Over the winter, I planted the seeds, curious to find out in 2025, if the red seedling tends to give red kids, if the whitish seedling tends to see if it tends to have more whitish kids, etc. Or if the parent's genetics will rule and give them all a pretty similar mix of colors and looks.
