Pod parent: TOOKY TOOKY BIRD (Michaels 2014 introduction registered in 2013) Mre 32" SEV 6½" peach and salmon (peach and fawn after several hot days in a row) blend with rose lavender eye widely edged with red violet over a yellow to green throat. The pattern is mimicked a bit on the sepals and the petals display pale midrib darts. TOOKY TOOKY BIRD has so far proven to be my best parent for producing patterned seedlings. An early morning opener after 50º nights. The frequently quilled sepals increase the interest for me, of course. Two laterals on stout scapes with 18 buds each. Reblooms even in drought conditions and makes average diploid sized fans. Fertile both ways, it can pass both missing color pattern and wide color bands, and it produces kids that run the full gamut of forms from bagel through UF to Spider. “Tooky Tooky” is what George of the Jungle called his toucan friend. Seedling DCWCSTHGDD-24, the parentage is {[Dallas Star seedling 2-12 x (Chin Whiskers x Little Witching Hour seedling 1) seedling 6] X [Cerulean Star x (Heavenly Gift x Dragon Dreams seedling 5) seedling 1]}.
Pollen parent: DMAB6TTBBSO83-22 (unregistered) Gotta admit that I fell in love with the color and form and pattern of this new-for-2017 seedling. Clear medium pink with a red violet eye broken by multiple chevrons, the Spider ratio of the 12 blooms ranged from 3.857 (boo hoo…) to 5.4:1 (yippee!). Cascading, recurving blooms were 8” with a 13” wingspan. Promptly moved to the selected bed. Still had 12 buds in 2018 on 30” scapes, but, since almost everything was remarkably shorter in 2018 (flooding in 2017 followed by excessive heat and drought in 2018?), I expect it to get taller in future years. One of the few seedlings that showed patterning in the hottest part of the 2018 summer. {(Dallas Star seedling x MALACHITE PRISM) x ADDERBOLT] x BANSHEE CRADLESONG] X (TOOKY TOOKY BIRD x BANSHEE SONATA)}.
Goals: Patterned blooms in a wide range of colors and, with the double dose of TOOKY TOOKY BIRD, we’re looking for temperature independence for the patterns.
The seeds have been air dried for 1-3 days before being refrigerated. Please store them in your fridge until ready to plant.
Bonus seeds are included for prompt contact and payment.
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Pod parent on left, pollen parent on right: