Sinningia - TOW
John Ingram (Sun, 23 Nov 2003 09:46:54 PST)

Jamie,
Here is a link back to a previous posting to Mark
about how to start them from seeds.
As I get more seeds available, I will be sending more
to Dell for the BX.
If anyone is interested in a few of the primary
hybrids that I have tried, email me privately. I have
a few to sell but not many. And I am not sure if the
cross actually took or not. Sinningias are rather
promiscuous and open pollination is rather hard to
control.
My grouping of S. sellovii is a major fight zone for
all the hummingbirds in the neighborhood. I've been
caught in more attacks than I prefer. They go to other
plants in the garden as well such as the leucotricha
right next to it but it is a lot lower and I don't
think they always see it.
My S. magnifica is a gorgeous, large flowered plant. I
have tried crossing it with sellovii. S. magnifica had
a huge flush of blooms and produced tons of seed. I
have a crop of them coming along now. It is a lovely
salmon peach. I hope that the cross with sellovii
works as sellovii has a long bloom time (all year
almost) but the individual flowers are not as
impressive but are produced by the zillions. So
something in between would be great. Time will tell.

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