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This year I transplanted seven second year sprouts that were naturally seeded. Excited to see what next year brings. I have no idea what cultivars sprouted. Guess I will have to wait and see. Working on filling my front beds with peonies. Festiva Maxima is my favorite. This year when I cam collecting the seed, I will LABEL the seeds. (Duh) lol
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I have a ton of seeds I saved from previous years and never thought to label what seeds came from what varieties. (duh) So I am thinking of planting them this fall in a spot in the garden reserved just for them and see what I get! I would like to learn how to hybrid…I breed Smooth Fox Terriers so I have a bit more than a layman’s understanding of genetics…( I hope!)
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Hybridizing peonies is not particularly difficult and the laws of genetics are the same I think. The advantage you have here is that you can back-cross to parents or grandparents and so on. I don’t think that is commonly done with dogs ( though I have not a single bit of experience with breeding animals). If you’d like to learn more about it, perhaps consider joining the ‘hybridizer’s corner’ here? There’s a lot of information for hybridizing there and there are quite a few hybridizers there.
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Something to look forward to :-) I remember the excitement when my first seedlings flowered for the first time. When you see a first bud on those young plants, you always hope for something exceptional. I’ll admit it rarely is that exceptional in fact, but given enough TLC they nearly always grow into plants that will give your garden something ‘different’ than the usual peonies. If they are second year seedlings and you replanted them I suppose you could expect the first flowers in 2024, perhaps if you’re very lucky there may be a small flower on one of them next year. I should surely label any seeds, so you can compare them to their mother at least. Good luck with them!