Char, yes, that's where my current poly focus is - on the tets. It's tough slogging, though... at best I have only produced low % seedlings thus far, and I felt like I was gut-punched last summer when I discovered rust on 'Polly Wolly Doodle', which is dependably poly here, and which I had been trying to work with. (I can't give you an exact poly percentage in my garden for PWD; Richard Norris says 40% and I'd say that's certainly close to what I see here.) I will continue to try to work with it, but I am now going to limit my crosses to things that have rust resistance... which means probably a couple of generations to see if I can get anything poly back. There really is very little dependably poly tet material out there, once you discount all the many cultivars that occasionally throw a poly bloom or two.
I am almost tempted to go back to the dips. (I do have a couple of poly dip seedlings (and a third from Paul Dunaway) that I have kept over the years, and last summer I was discouraged enough that I made a couple of crosses with two of them. I may even plant a few of the seeds...)
