Sigh. The best laid plans of mice and men…
This is the reverse-bicolour I was so excited about yesterday; today the contrast is gone, and it’s just a soft pink. Not heinous, but less exciting.
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A few first-blooms on my OP Bonica seedlings; the last pictured (the near-white) has wavy, rather thick petals that have lasted at least ten days. I like the shape the wave gives to the bloom, and the thick petals hold their shape even in the heat. Keeper, methinks? Some of the seedlings are nearly to completely prickle-free, one even so under the leaves.
It’s a pity they are all pink. lol & “C’est la vie”!
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My culling has opened up even more space (there were a lot of “no-shows”, and only a few later germinations) in the seedling boxes, but temperatures and humidity have continued to give conditions where fungus thrives…
A very few PM-riddled seedling remain, but one group of seedlings has continued its seeming immunity: the OP seedlings from 2-3 different cultivars of white landscaping shrubs of the Meidiland-type. I yanked one for being pink, and the rest are now budding up and we shall see what comes of them. Probably will keep a couple or three for their overall health and try for more in the next generation.
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OH, I forgot to mention: it looks like ‘Trier’ pollinated one of those ‘Outta the Blue’ seedlings, and THAT is quite exciting to me! Sadly, in my clumsiness earlier on I knocked its first bud off. CURSES!! However it immediately threw two branches from the base and both have buds at their tips now. Stay tooned!