Month: February 2015

Pollen longevity?

My 1st blooms are opening and I feel like dabbing pollen.  I’ve go some 1 year old and 2 year old frozen pollen.  Is it likely the two year pollen is still viable?

More from Up-Over

A nice companion to the 8Y-O a week or two ago is this 8W-O. It is Autumn Colors 8W-O  crossed with a First Stanza seedling (09/21T x 09/02T). It has the size and robustness of Autumn Colors combined with earliness…

First seedling blooming in TN

This seedling is the first to bloom in a window-box type tray of seedlings in my little indoor/outdoor garden cart.  The cart has been indoors for the last week under fluorescent lights.  It’s a miniature, two florets on one stem,…

Blooming in Ohio

Winter has not been kind, though other parts of the country have had it worse than we have, here in Cincinnati.  The extreme cold, with temps near and below zero, has not been good for growing bulbs in pots in…