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dbowemd · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:00 am Post subject: Late blooming yellows

I took these pics yesterday.
Left/back rugose one is a frosty yellow, I have not looked up the cross yet.
The yellow one is a seedling x (StardustxOMT475)
The pinkish purple flowers and red scapes caught my attention as I walked by this one that was hiding among some bigger greenies.
These are from the 2007-8 season, so second year in the garden.

dbowemd · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:06 am Post subject:

more views of the sdlgx475 one.

dbowemd · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:13 am Post subject:

The rugose one closer up
I will try to decipher the styrofoam cup writing in the next day or two.

Bev · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 313

Beautiful flowers and scapes on the first one!

Bev

dbowemd · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:40 am Post subject:

Thanks, Bev, The leaves are kind of ugly this year because of it's cramped location, but the color is vibrant. It will be planted in a better location next year so that I can see what the mound will do. Light makes the yellow brighter I can tell at least, and it may be susceptible to scorching.

Brian White · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:09 am Post subject:

Dave
I think they look better when they come up in the same sun they are to be grown in.

renaldo75 · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 759 Location: Ankeny, IA

You've got a couple of nice ones there, Dave. Very Happy

Looks like OMT did what you wanted. I'd be selfing the heck out of it & see if you can keep the yellow & push the red up higher.

dbowemd · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:51 am Post subject:

Reldon, you seem to already know where I am going with this!
3 of my crosses are OMT. I am trying Nigrescens on one, just on a whim... would love to get a tall erect red petiole plant too.
Nigrescens is a reluctant parent, but I have a few plants that prove it is possible to use.

Brian, I agree 100%.

dansgrdn · Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Posts: 875 Location: Z5, Chicago area

Two fantastic looking late yellows Dave! I love the leaves on the one to the left and the flowers, pets and scapes of the one on the right. Have you crossed the two together?

Dan

dbowemd · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 1:23 pm Post subject:

Ahhh but of course! (In French accent)
I have done one flower 2 days ago, and will do the other way tomorrow.. have to collect pollen from the white flowered one.

dbowemd · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:00 pm Post subject:

The Corrugated yellow is
Seedling 508 x Abiqua Drinking Gourd. That explains the shape and flowers! But not the bloom time.
Now to figure out what seedling 508 was...
I think it was a gold seedling, either a Bright Lights x Liberty or Christmas Tree x Paradigm.

allnitro · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:10 pm Post subject:

Very nice and good luck making seeds!

dbowemd · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks Jeff.
Amazingly I found 508.
It is Cinnamon Sticks x Leafmould's "Big Gold", pollen he mailed to me in about 2004.
508 is yellow with speckled red petioles, and is not vigorous... probably needs fertilizer. It is still in a pot!
So I was going for red pets and did not get them.... the Abiqua Drinking Gourd suppressed the Red petiole genes.
If I remember correctly, 'Big Gold', a seedling of Leafmould's, was Elatior x Montana Macrophylla or something like that. I could potentially track that down with some serious sleuthing.
I really should keep better records!

Rick Goodenough · Joined: 10 Mar 2008 Posts: 4219 Location: Marshfield, MA

Love the first one too...nice going Doc. Rick

wzbt03 · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:37 pm Post subject:

Great looking plants to play with this time of year Dave!

Nice to hear the backgrounds as it makes ones imagination go to work.