Cross failed

[Bonaventure Magrys]

Yup,
I get what looks like seedheads, but most often they are duds and before
maturing they wither away. I may have a promising saxatile by tortuousum.
Last year triphyllum by consanguineum was "rescued" but the immature
"seedlets" after many months dissolved in their wet paper towel homes.
One candidissimum x sikokianum, 3 years old, survivor of 6 seeds produced,
is getting larger in my front yard, but looks vegetatively like a straight
candidissimum. Not so of the triphyllum x nepenthoides I grew for 3 years
before it succumbed. Again the survivor of only 6 full-term seeds produced
in the infructescence, it resembled the pollen parent, nepenthoides,
vegetatively.
Alas 8 tuberlets of triphyllum x taiwanense (lab pollinated on forced
blooms in mid-winter 2000/2001) never came back up this year. Seedlings are
extremely delicate, (unless the seeds are thrown out or discarded into the
garden and ignored of course).

Bonaventure