Hello everyone,
October is the "endgame" for my outdoor zinnias, because we can get a frost almost any time in October, with the probability getting higher later in the month. I will upload a few photos of current breeder zinnias. This is a photo of one of the progeny of a zinnia I designated as I29.
I29 grew indoors this spring, and it had interesting extremely uprolled petals. This is a photo of I29.
I29 had almost no pollen, so I was forced to pollinate it with other contemporary indoor zinnias that were producing pollen to get seeds from I29. This is another bloom on I29.
And this is yet another I29 bloom. All of its blooms had very slender uprolled petals.
This is another outdoor child of I29.
This is another child of I29
And yet another child of I29.
Non of the children of I29 had those unusual uprolled petals, but the children are of necessity F1 hybrids between I29 and other indoor breeder zinnias. I am saving seeds from I29's children, and since they are F2's, I can expect a lot of recombination of genetics in the F2 generation. Hopefully some of those specimens will inherit the uprolled petals from I29. I will grow a few of those F2 seeds indoors this Winter. I am very curious about whether the uprolled petals will reappear.
ZM
