JungleShadows said:Ok I ran out between showers and got a couple shots of it and a couple other seedlings for you to see. I realized I had the other extreme in another seedling with needle-like leaves. Also wanted you to see the clump of 'Big Six-O' starting to get its winter coloring.
I'll be interested on seeing the spring color on "Hershey's Kiss". It has made 5 good rosettes and bloomed one year from seed so it's a good grower for a heuff seedling. You can definitely see the influence of 'Giuseppi Spiny' in the pointy tips but the leaf width at the base and the relatively sparse leaves are totally different.
'Big Six-O' is from 'Killer' X 'Jungle Shadows'. It is the biggest of this group and goes quite red in spring. The little offset is coloring but it's at a different angle than the others.
The pointed one is from 'Vesta' X self but almost the opposite in form from its parent. It was the ONE seedling from that group although I remade the cross this year and also self-pollinated the seedling. I hate making crosses with the heuffs as you have to rip off the petals but I can just cover the stalk and move pollen from one flower to a receptive stigma. Next year I will start crossing the extreme types as now I have a feeling for how these characters are inherited. I have learnt a lot from the selfing experiments and I may still self pollinate a few where i see inklings of color that could be brought out. There are some odd pastel shades when I get a blue or glaucous overlay to a pastel violet that I'd like to see another generation to see what colors sort of from that.
Enjoy!
Kevin
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