I breed a lot of summer flowering hybrids including primulinus. It is true that you can flower some prims from seed in the first year but the flowers tend to be immature with only a few buds. Second year sees spikes of 16-20 buds. The grandiflora hybrids mostly need two, rarely three years to flower from seed. 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Re: Moraea and Gladiolus hybrids report (Brian Whyer) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:31:35 -0700 > From: Carolyn Dorsh <cdorsch1919@gmail.com> > To: pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > Subject: [pbs] Are donations still accepted? > Message-ID: <C3217D6C-35BB-4DAF-8E56-C95E2132128E@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi, > I have some California native seeds and bulbs to donate to the PBX. Can I still send them in? There was a call for donations in June, but it isn?t clear to me if I should send anything now. > > Thank you. -Carolyn Dorsch > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 12:06:35 -0700 > From: "R Hansen" <bulbnut@hansennursery.com> > To: "'Pacific Bulb Society'" <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Are donations still accepted? > Message-ID: <00c701d68aca$2b3e7a30$81bb6e90$@hansennursery.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Carolyn, > > Luminita Vollmer, our Exchange Director, will make an announcement when she's ready to accept more donations. Please do not send them until she does. > > Regards, > > Robin Hansen > President, PBS > > Subject: [pbs] Are donations still accepted? > > Hi, > I have some California native seeds and bulbs to donate to the PBX. Can I still send them in? There was a call for donations in June, but it isn?t clear to me if I should send anything now. > > Thank you. -Carolyn Dorsch > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 22:02:20 -0700 > From: <michaelcmace@gmail.com> > To: <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Moraea and Gladiolus hybrids report > Message-ID: <135101d68b1d$657a3ab0$306eb010$@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Diane wrote: > >> They had flowers 16 weeks after germination, mostly in seedlings from G > primulinus. > > Dang! I wonder if it's that particular species, or if all the summer-growing > Glads are like that. > > I've often thought I ought to try crossing the summer and winter growing > Glads. There were reports that Prof. Koopowitz had a lot of success doing > that at UC Irvine, but I never heard details. > > Mike > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:42:17 +0100 (BST) > From: Brian Whyer <brian.whyer@btinternet.com> > To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > Subject: Re: [pbs] Moraea and Gladiolus hybrids report > Message-ID: <6f0e0d5b.8fcc.1749124bba8.Webtop.94@btinternet.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > Hi > > Please clarify "winter growing" Gladiolus. I have been to RSA in winter > and know it's a different world down there but where does this term fit > into the northern hemisphere in N. America and the UK? > > Brian Whyer, SE UK - Colchicum and Cyclamen time here at present > Dang! I wonder if it's that particular species, or if all the > summer-growing > Glads are like that. > I've often thought I ought to try crossing the summer and winter growing > Glads. There were reports that Prof. Koopowitz had a lot of success > doing > that at UC Irvine, but I never heard details. > Mike > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > > ------------------------------ > > End of pbs Digest, Vol 43, Issue 14 > *********************************** _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…