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Oct 16, 2015 10:17 AM CST
Name: Betty
Bakersfield, CA
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I was able to set three pods on FOUR EYES this spring with the following crosses:

FOUR EYES X AZURE PRISM - 9 seeds
FOUR EYES X BROADWAY LEGEND - 7 seeds
FOUR EYES X RANDOM KINDNESS - 6 seeds

I have almost all my plants that I make crosses with in pots, and when a bloom opens I move the pot under the shade of my covered patio and will keep it there until at least two days after I make the cross, and then I move it to a table under my pergola that has 2" slats 2" apart, so in effect that's half-strength sunlight during the day. Here in Bakersfield it can get up to 100 as early as April, and our sunlight is really intense, so with any crosses I make with a pod parent in the ground I put a beach umbrella over it.

But I honestly do not know what makes my crosses take, because I will make hundreds of crosses that fall off over and over -- and then suddenly in one week everything will take -- and all the conditions seem exactly the same. But at least I did get three pods on my FOUR EYES.

Edit: Forgot to say that I used fresh pollen on all three of these.
Betty
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