Hi everyone! I've been offline for a bit -- pollinating and trying to get us ready for our vacation. But we're finally here now and I have time to relax, and I just grabbed my little IPad mini and taught myself how to upload a picture, so we'll see if I did it right, I've finally had a few seedlings bloom, and this is the first one I really like. Please don't laugh too hard because I really do like it...
It's from my very first batch of seedlings ever, and it's tall, has lots of substance, and the color is sort of a velvety rusty red with a greenish throat and purple eye ring. I've only seen two blooms so far, but I'm very pleased for a very first keeper seedling. I do realize that by next year I'll probably wonder what I ever saw in it, but right now I'm very happy that I responded positively to one of my first seedlings! I think I'll plant it in the garden with my spiders and UF's and see how it does..
The cross is WAY COOL x ALIEN FORCE, and I like to give seedlings nicknames -- so this one is now named "WAY COOL ALIEN" ! And I think it's much prettier than this picture shows -- I'm such a proud mama! Oh yes, and I even noticed a couple of teeth here and there...
I do have a question about how to number seedlings. I'd like to include a year, but would it be the year I did the pollination and planted the seeds (2011), the year it germinated and emerged as a seedling (2012), or the year it first bloomed (2013)?
