Split Calyx

General Discussion
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I’m finding a number of these this season. Anyone have experience with these? Do the seed mature normally? Normal germination? It seems the seed might dry out prematurely.

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Wow, that one got greedy and filled itself up too full! Looks like a lot of seeds. I have had smaller splits do okay and perhaps this one will work. I suspect that the exposed ones will behave like exogenous seeds and may have a poorer germination rate. Hopefully most of them will make it.

Jim Sproul

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Thanks Jim. That’s what I figured. You know we get warm here. I’ll keep my fingers crossed and get these chilling as soon as I’m sure they are mature.

The pollen parent is a mini. He’s a super stud!

4

Lagerfeld always does that on me without fail. They germinate fine, but Im in Oregon so…

5

Cologne does this on me. I have a seedling of it with Constance Spry that’s growing nicely, and it was from a hip that was split (though, not as bad as yours) with the outies. They did fine.

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Thanks for the input. I’ll process the seed as usual and hope for the best.

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I’d guess weather is responsible. Maybe swab it with hydrogen peroxide where it split? Does the splitting make the hip more vulnerable to stuff moving in?

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Apparently I am getting too good at applying pollen.

This hip not only split, it completely folded back and it’s practically flat and studded with seed.

The original hip I posted has now split down the middle.

Link: i57.photobucket.com/albums/g227/PSroseguy/GSXBLtoofull5-13-07.jpg

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I found this a lot when I used Lynnie on Gingersnap two years ago. I had other pollen parents on Gingersnap at the same time and had no split calyx on them.

Patrick

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Wow!

Jim Sproul

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You very nearly hit the nail on the head Patrick. This is Gingersnap x Basye’s Legacy.

Some of the other crosses onto Gingersnap did split but nothing to this degree.

Did you get anything out of Gingersnap x Lynnie? That’s one I would be likely to try.

I keep trying to get yellow out of one of my Legacy descendants but so far I’ve had no luck.

Thanks, Robert

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Robert, I don’t recall. I was going for disease resistance and didn’t have much room to keep many so I got rid of all of them as there was not any worthy to keep for disease resistance. I do recall some Darlow’s Enigma X Lynnie being light yellow but not many. I moved last year and have a lot more room now so if I was to do that cross again I could keep more. I would bet there were some yellows and oranges from that cross.

Patrick