I posted my suspicion that Butt Ugly may have been a pot of seedlings I stick in the ground out of desperation a year ago. I am not good at tracking crosses, so I will collect a few seed pods from DLs that I like to grow them out in the winter. Some I know the pod parent, but all are either OP or I didn't record the pollen parent. BU had a pod sibling open this morning and it is amazing how different they look!
THis is from the same scape as BU trying to open in a thunderstorm and suffocating humidity
This is from a different fan in the same clump - much better color and form even at 6 AM!
And this is the "clump" both are growing from - BU on the left and other seedling on the right.
No wonder hybridizing is such a crap shoot!
Alexa
Spring - An experience in immortality.
- Henry D. Thoreau
