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Dormant Tets – Volume 2

Seedling 947-1 is a dormant plant that we used for hybridizing again in 2012 after seeing many good seedlings bloom in 2011.  We decided against introducing it because it blooms rather short and just above the foliage.  However, dormant patterned parents are hard for us to find and we enjoyed using it.  In 2012, we made 13 pods and collected over 100 seeds. 

Seedling 947-1 (August Wedding x Destined to See) x Spring of Living Water

We put pollen from 947-1 onto our introduction Zoe Josephine and got seedling 1011-1.  This was one of our most striking flowers in 2011 and we were happy to see it is dormant. 

Seedling 1011-1 – Zoe Josephine x 947-1

Another nice dormant seedling has different breeding with the dormant genetics from an older Benz introduction Picotee Glamour. 

Seedling 1012-1 – (Oceans 11 x Heaven’s Proclaim) x [(Picotee Glamour x Light of the World) x Arnold’s Daughter]

We were unable to set pods on 1011-1 or 1012-1 last summer.  We kept them in the same spot in the garden and hope they are more vigorous and better able to set seeds in 2013.  These look like great parents to us.