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Name: Sylvia Butler Dallas TX 8a  sylviaNDcity Jul 17, 2010 8:53 AM CST |
| So is everybody here hybridizing? |
Name: Arlene Marshall Twin Lakes, IA & Orange, CA Zone 4B   TwinLakesChef Jul 17, 2010 8:53 AM CST |
| Not me; I just love reading and looking at what people are doing. I just love hostas! |
Name: Kit and Gary Springville, Ia  kitgary Jul 18, 2010 9:26 PM CST |
| We are dabbing a few. Gary |
Name: Diann Iowa (Zone 5a)          |
You are dabbing a few?!?!? How many hundreds did you and Kit have growing in the basement last winter?  LOL  |
Name: Christine Southeastern MN (Zone 4a)          Christine27360 Jul 19, 2010 4:24 PM CST |
hahaha!! Funny Gary! Considering that I have 22 of your little "rejects" -- which I love and am babying like they were gold.  I would love to try but I need to have a "dabbling" session  with Kit and Gary before I try my hand at it.  "Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously." 2 Corinthians 9:6 |
Name: Dennis Szurgot Topsham, Maine You can't unscramble scramble eggs  DASH Jul 19, 2010 7:53 PM CST |
| Hi everyone, I started to play around a couple of winters ago. I looks like I have all solids but I have two venusta types that are in bloom as we speak. I was surprised because this is only their second year and there so tiny. - dash Dennis |
Name: Kit and Gary Springville, Ia kitgary Jul 20, 2010 2:23 PM CST |
| It's still early but I don't think we will grow quite as many as we did last year. That could be subject to change when the cold weather in November has a way of stroking that itch. We will definitely be a little more willing to cull this time though. Gary |
Name: Karen Watertown, WI (Zone 5a)   kaylyred Mar 23, 2011 7:27 PM CST |
| I know this is an old thread, but I thought I'd revisit it. After trying my hand at growing a few seeds I got from Chris at Hallson's (and getting at least one, and maybe two, streakers from the batch of 15 seeds) I think I may just give hybridizing, of a sort, a whirl this year. I was reading a writeup about the late Mildred Seaver and was inspired by how she said she hybridized by letting nature do all the work--she cut the flower scapes off the "uninteresting" hostas she didn't want to breed and let the bees spread the pollen elsewhere, then collected the seeds from the pod parents. I have 'Christmas Tree Gala' (a streaked breeder) and I'll probably use Mildred's technique and see what she produces this fall. :) Check out Petiole Junction, my garden blog! (I'd love your comments.) |
Name: Arlene Marshall Twin Lakes, IA & Orange, CA Zone 4B TwinLakesChef Mar 24, 2011 10:35 AM CST |
| Good Luck. It will be interesting to see how it goes. I enjoy seeing what you all come up with when hybridizing. |
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