drdawg said:Thanks, Terry. Sooooooo, let's say I have seedlings and the pod parent (is that the right terminology for the plant that bares the pod?) is the Scott Pratt. Are you saying that these seedlings will make good root stock, even though the Scott Pratt is very difficult to root and comes back from dormancy very slowly?
I think it is so neat to be able to name a new cultivar and have it then registered with the PSA. I assume this is a arduous, time-consuming chore.
Hi Ken! I think you are mis-understanding what I am saying....I am not advocating that seedlings be looked at just rooting material..rather the opposite. The pictures at the top of this thread are seedlings that have matured into beautiful plants that would never consider using as root stock.
Now one thing we learned is not all of the seedlings will come out like those...they are the top 10% of the group. When you grow ALL the seeds in a pod, it is a mish-mash of different plants with all the same traits as society. We had some ferocious growers and bloomers...some not quite so fast and still bloomed...regular whites and yellows...some that grew, but were bad bloomers. Some that didn't grow very good or bloom, and then we had 2 that were stunted...never grew. We eventually put them in a Bonsai pot...here is a pic from 2012 at 8 years old...they were maybe 10" high. They put out new leaves every year, but never grew...no blooms either..
