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Last season I ramped up my brugmansia hybridizing efforts using brugmansias with mutant and deeply serrated foliage.  The results of those...

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After a nearly five year hiatus, Fred's Garden Blog is back! Now you can enjoy and experience the gardening exploits and adventures of Fred in his quest to hybridize brugmansia and keep his jungle and nursery under control.

Sommer Gardens / Thursday, June 23, 2011 / Categories: Hybridizing

Angel Trumpet Podfest 2011

In recent weeks I have been harvesting ripe seed pods from my Spring Brugmansia crosses.  After two consecutive years of freezes and very few seed pods, this bountiful seed pod harvest is well appreciated.

driedpods.jpgOur summer heat arrived early this year so many of the seed pods were smaller than usual.  This means I have fewer seeds from each cross than I had anticipated, This does not mean that I have a shortage of seeds to sow, I'll just have fewer seeds to share with members of the International Brugmansia and Datura Society. I have already sown seeds from at least 150 unique brugmansia crosses I made this season.  By the time I finish harvesting pods later this month the total should be close to 200 unique crosses.

Below you will see a bunch of ripe seed pods I collected one afternoon.   

traysofpods.jpgI'm really excited about the potential of many of the crosses I was able to make this year.  Check back late next summer/fall to see if the crosses exceeded my expectations.  :)




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