Somewhere I thought we had a topic for this cross, but I can't find it. Admin please sort this post into the right category if we do and I missed it.
Two seeds arrived, very treasured. Two healthy, tall pea plants are growing in the garden here - Unity x Mrs Lei. I really appreciate this seed share, Jayb, I know that this was half your stock of these precious F1 seeds. Please correct if I got it wrong, but I think I am growing the F1 generation from your F1 seeds, not the F2 generation.
I expected the plants to be around 5ft or shorter and early, as both Unity and Mrs Lei are at the shorter end of tall peas. Turns out they grew to 5ft 6 before the first flowers opened. Taller and later than either parent. Hybrid vigour?
Next surprise: I expected the wild type of flowers, the usual two-tone purple and this is not the case either. The standards are near white and the wings are similar, but not quite like the wild type. I have taken photos, but since Windows 10 has arrived (without being invited, I had tried to avoid it), I am currently not familiar with the photo software and it will take me a while to get the photos taken yesterday into usable format.
Mrs Lei is a very nice mangetout pea and a cross with Unity could result in
a) Crimson flowers and delectable mangetout pods
b) a new flower colour. I have forgotten what a cross between b and cr could be
c) Mrs Lei's b is of the palest variant of all the pink peas (colour modifiers?), Elisabeth is darker pink (when it is not displaying whitish or redder variants which can happen and which all revert to normal the next grow-out) and Salmon flowered (a crown pea) is even darker pink. Because of the paleness of Mrs Lei's pink, other colour effects could arise in the flower of any crosses.
Silverleaf and Jayb could you please look this list over and comment.
Two seeds arrived, very treasured. Two healthy, tall pea plants are growing in the garden here - Unity x Mrs Lei. I really appreciate this seed share, Jayb, I know that this was half your stock of these precious F1 seeds. Please correct if I got it wrong, but I think I am growing the F1 generation from your F1 seeds, not the F2 generation.
I expected the plants to be around 5ft or shorter and early, as both Unity and Mrs Lei are at the shorter end of tall peas. Turns out they grew to 5ft 6 before the first flowers opened. Taller and later than either parent. Hybrid vigour?
Next surprise: I expected the wild type of flowers, the usual two-tone purple and this is not the case either. The standards are near white and the wings are similar, but not quite like the wild type. I have taken photos, but since Windows 10 has arrived (without being invited, I had tried to avoid it), I am currently not familiar with the photo software and it will take me a while to get the photos taken yesterday into usable format.
Mrs Lei is a very nice mangetout pea and a cross with Unity could result in
a) Crimson flowers and delectable mangetout pods
b) a new flower colour. I have forgotten what a cross between b and cr could be
c) Mrs Lei's b is of the palest variant of all the pink peas (colour modifiers?), Elisabeth is darker pink (when it is not displaying whitish or redder variants which can happen and which all revert to normal the next grow-out) and Salmon flowered (a crown pea) is even darker pink. Because of the paleness of Mrs Lei's pink, other colour effects could arise in the flower of any crosses.
Silverleaf and Jayb could you please look this list over and comment.
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