Pink Passion is about the only brug I have with blooms right now. She is a little darker than the pictures show. When I put the pictures into Irfanview to resize and copyright them, I noticed that the cucumber beetles are enjoying her, so I guess I have so get out the spray now. This is an F1 hybrid and the cross is Rothkirch x Balao, made by Monika Gottschalk and grown from seed by me.
ChSam (Shirley Morr)
Chariton, Iowa
Zone 5
This message has been edited by ChSam on Aug 3, 2007 10:40 PM This message has been edited by ChSam on Aug 3, 2007 9:24 PM
What a vivid pink! You mean in reality it is even darker? Sweet!
I love the name! Is this one you hybridized? She is a real beauty, wish I was a cucumber beetle...hehe (except the spray part)
Totally fabulous, Shirley! That's what I call really PINK!!
Now, how about explaining to us what makes this an F1 hybrid? We don't discuss enough meaty brug topics! And this would be good knowledge for all of us to hang onto.
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
Ok, I'm trying to wrap my head around this, as it would apply to brugs. The Wikipedia article says "F1 stands for Filial 1, the first filial generation seeds/plants or animal offspring resulting from a cross mating of distinctly different parental types. The offspring of distinctly different parental types produce a new, uniform variety with specific and/or desirable characteristics from either or both parents."
It sounds like we would be talking about the parents being 2 different species of brugs, say Versicolor and Suaveolens. Their 2nd sentence sounds like every cross of those 2 parents would yield seedlings that all look alike, right? If so, is that possible in brugs?!
I haven't looked up the background on Pink Passion's parents to see whether they're man-made hybrids or were created by nature. Perhaps that's relevant?
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
That's right Patrick and in this case the two brugs are RK = Aurea and Balao = versicolor. Put together, they = Candida. Both RK and Balao are wildforms, and the seedlings from the cross will all very closely resemble each other.
She's a beauty, Shirley. Hope Pink Passion continues to produce beautiful blooms as she has this time around. Her deep rich pink is to die for!! Keep us posted.
I love her color also.So...does she have big leaves?I have that'pink' problem too...but see ones I'd grow all the time..Golfito(cause has golf in name and maybe hubby had one with sport he likes....He might not mow/weed wack& cut it up)Fantasia,pink passion.
Thanks Everyone. I do think she has fairly large leaves. That would be the aurea coming through, I guess. The long tendrils come from the aurea in her too.
Thanks. She is all but history right now. We are so hot and humid. It's 92 degrees with a wind and Champagne Fizz didn't even get a chance to color up. The hot wind just did it in.
My Champaign Fizz is gallantly trying to bloom today. Has about 50-60 blooms that have opened and others yet to open but they are rather "wimpy and peaked looking". I don't think he likes the heat of south Texas either.
We will be hot today& blasted with heat worse than yesterday.Calling for high of 97 heat index could be close to 117.I like your pink passion.It has nice trendils too.I like the way the flower hangs.Hope it likes heat.My mulch helps when hot like this.Today I can sweat over a gallon in 1 hour.
This one did very well in the heat and to make me feel better, God finally felt it was time to send Mother Nature my way with a total of nearly three inches of rain over the last few days. I think the brugs are really enjoying being washed off, but with our highs going back up into the mid nineties again by late week, the buds may not form again. This has just been a horrible summer.
Shirley, I can feel for you, and am so sorry it is such a bad season, but know the rain was nice. I could certainly use 3 or 4 inches about now. I am now fighting the worms on my brugs AGAIN. I am still uncertain if they are the web worms that the wind blows over to my brugs, or if they are some other kind of aggravation that MN has sent me this year. Finally got rid of the slugs (first time I have ever had to deal with them), and now the worms and spider mites have returned. I know the brugs will be okay, but I want them to look good, as well.
Darn it Carrie, you had such a good start this year. I'm sorry you are dealing with the critters now. We got more rain to total a little over 5 inches and that is good since our weekend temps will be mid nineties and a heat index of 100-105. I will probably see burned leaves on my brugs after this weekend.
Thanks Patricia. I'm glad you like her. She has withstood more heat than I expected.
ChSam (Shirley Morr)
Chariton, Iowa
Zone 5
This message has been edited by ChSam on Aug 9, 2007 8:51 PM
Good to know about that one liking/tolerating the heat. I am keeping a list in my head of which ones I've been reading about that like heat. I had better write them all down soon before I forget, lol.
Shirley, she is just beautiful! You certainly have the touch! But with our temps here now, everything looks just terrible. Leaves are falling everywhere, along with buds! Unless it cools off soon, I won't have many left.
And mulch helps hold moisture in too.I've been watering more& it has made me drag out 1 soakerhose& have decided to drag out the other one today and just start at other end and overlap the excess and that part of fenceline will just get more water.I got leaves falling off what I call the trash tree.Glad pink passion takes heat.
Hi of 99 today they are calling for excessive heat index's in the 120's.
If you ever have a chance to get a brug called "Bad Angel", don't hesitate. She is about the best brug I've seen for hot weather. Right now she is in Florida's heat, near Tampa, and she doesn't quit. She blooms almost constantly with nice flushes of pink flowers. My cutting was from the flowering region, so it isn't very tall, but she is still pretty. She also has not been bothered by the mites like my other brugs have. Unfortunately, the cross isn't known. It was a plant that was growing when Katrina's storms hit Pennsylvania and the tag was lost. Today in our 94 degree heat, she had several blooms and I saw one that was a little limp. The others looks to be in A-1 condition. The limp one could have been an older bloom.
This is a picture of her in Florida. A friend of mine is growing her.
Bad Angel is a beauty, Shirley. Golly, I'm not sure that that name fits one as beautiful as she and the fact that she does so well in the heat makes her a "good" angel in my book. Will keep an eye out for that one.
Jarie
Mission, TX
Rio Grande Valley
Zone 9
This message has been edited by jas4141 on Aug 13, 2007 5:58 PM
There is a story behind the name of it. When it was sent to my friend, it was supposed to be Dream Angel, but the person who was selling, had a bit of a problem after Katrina went through and many taged cuttings lost their tags. She thought she was sending the Dream Angel and this one bloomed single, not double. After making things right....and my friend just nicknaming it
Bad Angel while joking about it...the name stuck and that is what the grower named it.
It's funny how names stick! I have Wretched Mess, a brug I purchased from Country Garden. On his site, JT tells the story of how the 1rst blooms on the seedling were pretty ugly & it was thought the plant would be trashed. It was said to be a "wretched mess". But it was given more time however, and later blooms started turning out beautiful. I wanted it for its long, tiered corollas ... and for that name!
I've had 1 bloom only so far. It had triple corollas, but lacked the long extension. Now there are several buds coming along & I'm hoping to see the corollas go long!
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
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I don't think he likes the heat of south Texas either.
