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Love that Tahitian Purple splendor! Both are nice!

LOL we had people over and this was the only new bloom! The rest were on their third day so they were ugly. One out of 62 plants!

Ah, I don't have a heating pad so they're at mother nature's mercy!!

Your mini greenhouse is sooo cute!!! Good luck with those! So were those fresh seeds? Not even my fresh ones come up that fast!

Could be! I've never had anything volunteer though. :(

Funny how you can have over 60 hibiscus and these are all that bloomed today!

Next I will post how I plant my seeds...

When the seeds are ready, the pod will turn brown and open... Harvest time!!

I like to wait a few days to see if the pod stays on the plant, and if it seems like it is not going to abort, I put an organza bag on it to protect it from pests. A lot of people like to remove the calyx (the little leaf-like parts next to the seed pod) because pests like to hide in there...

The flower will fall off leaving the ovary behind. Sometimes if it didn't take, the flower and the pod will come off together!

Another example... Now you have hybridized a hibiscus! Then I tag the bloom with what I crossed it with. If it is a dry or sunny day, it is a good idea to mist the flower.

Then you take the flower with the pollen and rub the pollen onto the stigma pads of the other flower... You will see the pollen sticking to the pads..

First you need some pollen. Take a close look at this bloom. There are five bright orange stigma pads located on the tip of the pistil, behind the pads are the pollen sacs. On this bloom, the pollen sacs have not opened yet. Not a good candidate to pollinate another flower yet but it is a...

First you have to get seed! Hibiscus are not true to seed. That means, when you harvest seed from a plant, the seedlings will not have the same characteristics as the plant from which the seeds came. Odds are the plants from seed will look entirely different than the mother plant! That's what...

Pushpa babies planted around valentine's day

New babies planted around the 26th

Mostly Tahitians with some of my own mixed in... They got burned bad one day. Hope they make it!!!

Mostly Tahitian babies

MOMO going nuts... 7 blooms still hanging on.