Used as a mother, only 5 hips were obtained. Four were open pollinated, and one was formed from a mixture of Illusion pollen and (Rugelda X R-15) pollen. This was an attempt to use an old hybridizing trick of using a known “good” pollen mixed with a desirable but problematic pollen to keep the hip from dropping (or remove the sterility/rejection barriers). I would expect to be able to identify any offspring that resulted from Illusion pollen.
Used as the pollen donor, it formed hips with the following mothers:
Folksinger (2 hips)
(Folksinger X Dortman)
(Folksinger X (William Baffin X OP)) (3 hips)
Illusion (5 hips)
(Illusion X William Baffin) (2 hips)
((Illusion X John Davis) X (George Vancouver X John Davis))
(Heritage X Illusion)
(George Vancouver X John Davis)
Prairie Harvest
Carefree Sunshine
(Carefree Beauty X Heritage)
Leverkusen
((Bonavista X OP) X OP)
Of course any of these could of just been formed from stray pollen from the mother, but I feel that my technique has improved over the years so that this possibility is not very likely.
Probably the most unexpected cross is the one where ((Bonavista X OP) X OP) is the mother. Fortunately that is one where it should be easy to verify by looking at the characteristics of the offspring.