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The perfect satsuki azalea is probably in there somewhere. We just need to find it.
I'm so intrigued by the process. Thank you so much for documenting this! If you want to see if seeds travel well, I'd be happy to try them out for you Please keep posting your progress!
You can also look around in your neighbourhood and find local azaleas you really and check if they have seed pods on them currently, so you can harvest them in mid to late November. You are in a continental zone 6. So if you make your own crosses, you should go with crossing a winter hardy azalea with a nice looking azalea. 100% satsuki likely won't be that reliable as garden plants.
I made a list of all crosses/seed pods I have on my plants right now:
Crosses2020.xlsx
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I put my name in 'Status' to all that I intend to grow. Those may still become available if I run out of space after sowing most of them.
Many are available to people here, though. (Especially a few plants with tons of open pollinated flowers where the pollen parent is unknown). I putatively put some names of people here in a few cells, based on conversations I had here. I also tried to predict what type of seedlings to expect, but this is very speculative, of course.
So if people are interested in certain crosses, let me know. I think it is best to send all seeds of a specific cross to the same person. I may have miscounted some pods, of course. And some plants, especially Kozan and Hekisui, I fear that pods will contain very few seed (maybe 10 or so). But for Hakusen I expect 100 seeds per pod on the biggest ones.
I think most people will be able to find the parents. Most satsuki can be found on satsukimania.com
My own plants are here in this topic (except maybe Mxk-12-02).
I made a list of all crosses/seed pods I have on my plants right now:
Crosses2020.xlsx
tinyurl.com
I put my name in 'Status' to all that I intend to grow. Those may still become available if I run out of space after sowing most of them.
Many are available to people here, though. (Especially a few plants with tons of open pollinated flowers where the pollen parent is unknown). I putatively put some names of people here in a few cells, based on conversations I had here. I also tried to predict what type of seedlings to expect, but this is very speculative, of course.
So if people are interested in certain crosses, let me know. I think it is best to send all seeds of a specific cross to the same person. I may have miscounted some pods, of course. And some plants, especially Kozan and Hekisui, I fear that pods will contain very few seed (maybe 10 or so). But for Hakusen I expect 100 seeds per pod on the biggest ones.
I think most people will be able to find the parents. Most satsuki can be found on satsukimania.com
My own plants are here in this topic (except maybe Mxk-12-02).
I'm definitely interested in any seeds you might have available! Thank you very much Let me know if there's anything I can do to repay the favor!
EDIT: I just saw that the Hekisui x Kobai cross was available. I'm definitely interested in that one.
I have 6 Satsuki overwintered like all my other trees on the ground and mulched with leaves last winter and another in the landscape for 3 or 4 years. Fresh seedlings might be more tender, but what's the problem? Sounds like a lineage problem?
Hi @Harunobu
I’d like to request seeds from one of your crosses. Anything you think would do well in Puget Sound.
I like smaller multicolored azalea, but will take whatever color you have just to try raising from seeds on my own.
Let me know and thank you for this offer to folks!
DSD sends
Hi, Great spreadsheet !!
I have sent you PM re other one, thanks
Kobai x Miharu
Charles