Wednesday, July 26, 2006

2006 SEEDLING BLOOMS, CONT'D

DS12-18 X WILLIE BELLE

DS12-18 is a seedling bred from 'Dark Star' lines; in these images it was paired up with 'Willie Belle'. As you see, I got three different looks from this one cross and that's only the seedlings that were kept and correctly identified! I did, however, keep more seedlings from a second DS12-18 cross using ;Crystalline Entity' as the pollen parent (not all of them were correctly tagged either).

D32 was an early bloomer this season, B32 began Mid-Season and A31 has just started to bloom, so, this year at least, the seedlings have spanned close to the full season. That could all change next season. All three were maiden bloomers this season so a lot of things may possibly change next season! Bloom size, color (though not so much withthe darker ones), movement and they should start getting better at branching and bud counts. Since these three are so diverse, I'd be hard pressed to pick my favorite, so I won't! Although "A31" is probably the best of the three. Time and maturity will tell the complete story.

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