{"id":346,"date":"2012-09-21T01:07:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T05:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/staging.arghyagardens.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2012-10-04T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T23:32:05","slug":"brugmansia-jacayna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.arghyagardens.com\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Brugmansia Jacayna"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>J<\/span>acayna is a very interesting Brug. The plant is stout and a very vigorous grower. Leaves are ovate, wide and a tad serrated. Cuttings root very easily. Nice, strong fragrance. All are fine qualities. The flower, however,\u00a0 is\u00a0 unusual with it’s wide, pink-yellow-white colored corolla that sometimes sports seven distinctive corolla teeth.<\/p>\n

She’s obviously got a distinctive suavoleans look about her, yet there’s something indefinable about what’s lurking in her genes.<\/p>\n

Jacayna is the result of a Frosty Pink x Lexy cross. When I thought about using her for hybridizing, I had second thoughts about those Lexy genes. Lexy has something of a reputation for being difficult: difficult to grow, difficult to flower, difficult to root, just plain difficult. Did I want all of those difficulties bred into whatever cross I might make with her?<\/p>\n

I really studied her flower for quite a while. I wanted to try to sort of get into her head, see what I thought she might like to become. It occurred to me that she wanted to throw a lot of corolla teeth. I’ve had eight to nine teeth on some of her corollas, and that was an indication she might want to be a more flore plano-type bloom. She’s a very wide flower. Might be good for widening up some tight double or triple blooms.<\/p>\n

In researching her genetic history, I found Golden Lady on her father’s side. Interesting. So, there are a lot of genes for multiple corollas in her background. An idea began to take form. Maybe, I should try to capitalize on those multiple corollas by crossing her with a solid old girl like Adeline with her fat, triple stuffed corolla. Here in Florida, my Adeline like it cool, or those skirts stay stuffed. Maybe, dusting Jacayna with A little Adeline pollen would result in a wide mouthed, flora pleno either pink or yellow. Well, I gave it a shot.<\/p>\n

Here are the results:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jacayna x Adeline<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jacayna x Adeline<\/p>\n

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Jacayna x Adeline<\/p>\n

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Jacayna x Adeline<\/p>\n

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Interesting, eh? Out of four seeds from the same pod, four distinctly different results. Two vanilla-colored flora pleno, one vanilla colored single and one snow-white flora pleno. All of them are fat flowers. Nice, wide corollas. So, the conclusion is that crossing a good triple with tight skirts just might give you a nice wide double or super wide single. The key here is width. If you want to make a flower with good width use Jacayna as a pod parent. If you want color, you might do well to cross her with something like Berkonigin or Sam. If all goes well, you’ll have color, width and multiple skirts.<\/span><\/p>\n

An interesting side note. Jacayna makes very small pods. Mine were no longer than about three inches and about one inch wide. Seeds were very small too, about 1\/8″. I was concerned when I planted them, but I had about 90% germination. Power-packed little guys for sure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Happy pollinating!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jacayna is a very interesting Brug. The plant is stout and a very vigorous grower. Leaves are ovate, wide and a tad serrated. Cuttings root very easily. Nice, strong fragrance. All are fine qualities. The flower, however,\u00a0 is\u00a0 unusual with it’s wide, pink-yellow-white colored corolla that sometimes sports seven distinctive…<\/p>\n

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