Hallson Gardens

i also vote for ugly

most hosta are hybrids so you will get some variation. over time you will want to study the lines to get you where you want to go. i have alot of it memorized so i can identify traits as i see them. and thus remember what i was after at the time. i use google docs to record some crosses. others i ju...

very nice best red/magenta flower i've seen

sometimes it takes the right maturity and the right weather year. i have a krossa regal seedling and it is fertile. I also have a fertile lancifolia seedling. I've grown op f2 of them but haven't done much crossing with them either. maybe they are worthwhile breeders, ....but the jury is out. .........

very nice i like it.

waldo,
have the read the paper called, 24 Anthocyanins of the genus of Hosta and their impacts on tepal colors?
its only a few cultivars but you might be able to find it useful for your needs.

sounds like quite the challenge, i've been working on fragrance, i'm starting to make some progress on that.

reds sound tricky, are you selecting for anthocyanin type or are you selfing to refine the color

looks nice, are you going for pink or red?

i have the reverse of that i call four play, you know because its a tetraploid. i have 3 clumps now.
its also a sport of revolution

Not being a scientist I can only speculate. As a breeder I always have more questions than answers. Is the expression of anthocyanin controlled by dominance? Is it a lottery of what part of the plant a seedling wants to store its unique blend of anthocyanin? By selection and perseverance I know I ca...

you might want to get those in some new soil to perk them up. to combat algae i always sprinkle dry mix on the top to dry it up and block its light source. not being of pychnophylla parentage might be a plus if you want blue flowers. a high presence of the malvadin anthocyanin will probably push the...

sorry lisa i held rod and the rest of the hostaseedgrowers captive all day. my fault.

but at least he went home with a couple of hosta.

those hosta guys are good guys. i tell ya

doug

so i finally cut my striptease sport off. and it greened up and put out a new flush of wide margined leaves. i wonder it these will stay that way.

doug

are you sure it wasn't a dream.

doug

those look like ventricosa youngsters to me.

it those flowers produce very large pods. and almost every flower has a pod then it most sure would be. ventricosa is unique in the fact that it has internal pollination.

doug

i can't vouch for its authenticity. but i have a tc streaked don stevens. and it is incredibly fertile.

doug

looks like someone made a mess while painting the deck

hmm leafy. i don't know. i'm not smelling anything.

nice color flower for fragrance. is there a corellation between flower color and fragrance???

love that gold shiny one. great color.

dug

that ones a beaut. look forward to seeing the piecrusted ones too.

doug

yes you are. if i remember you are working on blue and yellow quite abit. is that still a goal??? or have accomplished all you want with that??

what else are you working towards???

doug