Yes, and maybe, assuming one would act as a mentor, then you would want that one to act immediately. I always mix my pollen first with stubborn unknowns--once I've established first that they are, in fact, stubborn. A case in point is a nice, quite non complex seedling I have with all the good qualities except the flowers are a rather anemic, somewhat transparent orange. Last summer I pollenated five flowers with five different pollens and got nothing but chaff. This next summer, I'll do five more, but each of those will contain a repeat of two separate known constants used last year with 4 different other pollens each mixed in. Hopefully, I'll get one or two in the mix to act as a mentor. And, if that doesn't work, I'll more than likely cull it.
