Hybridizers: It can be fun to breed your own zinnias - Part 6, 2 by Zen_Man

Zen_Man wrote:
Hello again, Brenda,

I am busily growing zinnias indoors as a continuation of my zinnia breeding activities. It looks like I won't have any zinnias in bloom for Christmas. Last year I did, but this year I got really busy with some late season outdoor breeding that went through the month of October. I had some in-garden specimens that were hybrids involving the I29 breeder (pictures above), and I wanted to pollinate them to harvest as many seeds from them as possible. All of the pictures below are F1 progeny of I29, and I am growing their F2 progeny indoors, along with a few more F1 progeny of I29. I am making a significant effort to recover the extreme uproll flower form via recombinations in the F2 generation.

I will report on my indoor zinnia breeding from time to time. Today and tomorrow were relatively mild days, so I did spend some time cleaning up my outdoor garden. More later.

ZM

This message was edited Dec 4, 2015 8:43 PM