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

Zen_Man wrote:
[quote=\"Mipii\"]I also think your second pic with the rolled petals is very interesting. I imagine the trait to have rolled petals with an explosion of color at the end (like fiber optics) is still something that can be perfected into an overall fuller perimeter.[/quote]
I do indeed have something like that in mind as a goal. Although my Happy New Year picture did have \"special effects\" on the petal ends. I am attaching an \"un-enhanced\' version of that zinnia bloom.

I always say that with zinnias you should do like they say on TV and \"expect the unexpected\" because zinnias are full of surprises. My second picture is a current example of that. It has a surprising amount of color in the leaves below the bloom. I wonder if that is genetic, and if further selection for that effect could increase the amount of foliage color. It has never been my intention to find zinnias that looked like Coleus, but now I wonder if that might be a possibility. More later.

ZM