A couple cross attempts, etc

On June 21 I tried a FL x IR cross in the backyard using pollen from IR flowers that I brought from comm garden and kept alive with the cut truss in a cup of water.  That worked well, and after a couple of days sitting there the IR pollen came off very nicely.   At the comm garden I also tried a GX x CP cross.

So I left the F2#55 seeds too long in the water glass - about 8 days - and they had started to germinate.   Whoops.  So I chucked 'em.  Need to soak no longer than 3-5 days I think.

By June 24 I am noticing the second HC plant in backyard may be have some leaf death, perhaps the wilt is on this one too.  It sort of stalled out at 5 ft tall and usually HC grows like crazy.

Flamme coming in nicely.

Backyard wilting...

Well, now 3 plants in backyard are defitnitely wilting:  of course Basinga, but a HC and a FL.  Fortunately I planted 2 each of the latter 2 and their sister plant is healthy in each case. ??  These are probably fungal wilts.

Tiger stripes on a CP

Randomly noticed.

Phenotypes

Some F2s

Hey this one had nipples. ??  

So far a few F2s have quite evident purpling but too early to tell if any match up to IR.  Several have very light color.  I am glad I regrew parents and the F1. Ir:

This image nicely shows 3 stages of IR fruit and how it takes time for color to develop.  The red spot is reflection from my phone camera red-eye flash, I think!

Here is the F1.  Notice how hard it is to see any anthocyanin yet.  The green blush is about as much as one can appreciate.

6/16/16

Community garden looking good.  I spent  30 min just "stuffing" branches into twine, then put up more twine , recorded some phenotype and took pics.  And I picked the first F2s from 55 and 50.  Deer munched the #55!!  But it was mostly ok and we ate the rest - very good taste.  The purple was not super strong but it has at least a bit more color than CP. I think.  Kept seeds from this #55. The smaller one next to it, with decent purple and just barely ripe, is a #50.

First of the season

A delicious BC!

First color

On HC of course.   June 7!