Saturday, February 22, 2020

Red & Orange Perhaps

I was in the garden one day and had a play with two flowers, adding pollen from the plant growing alongside after emasculating them. I took pollen from Sweet Ozark Orange crossing it to Nicoleta. I never really expected anything, but tagged the two flowers and bagged them. A week or so later, one flower dropped off, leaving just the one. A few weeks passed and the embryo started to get some size, so you just never know what will happen.

As it happened, the plant got attacked badly by Russett Mite and it was a toss up if the fruit would ripen enough to get viable seeds, but it was touch and go but managed to extract a few seeds.

Last photo is the Nicoleta with what I hope carries the pollen of Sweet Ozark Orange.


















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