I can't tell you which crosses will work and which won't, but I would probably try the crosses I wanted and hope for the best... you never know when nature will decide to cooperate and produce seed pods from an odd cross! You've got nothing to lose by trying!

None of my cybisters cooperated this season... it was a little disappointing... but I did get plenty of seed pods from my larger hybrids! Next bloom season I'll try different crosses, and even repeat some of the failed crosses... I could get lucky! You just never know!

I say GO FOR IT it is only wasting pollen if you have somewhere else to put it...Doesn't take much pollen to fertilize and you never know! Good luck on both your pollinations and your studies! I too am an older student and I always applaud us. It's always good to learn-Good job!

Hi Chaz,
Ruby Meyer & Emerald are diploid, the others you mentioned are tetraploid. You can put the tet pollen on the dip plants and get a few viable seeds. I put Appleblossom on Ruby Meyer & have 1 seedling that I think will get to blooming size. So you can get seed this way, just not a lot. Sometimes, the seedlings are weak and just fade away after a year, Ruby Meyer X Appleblossom started out with 3 seeds germinating and 2 years later it's down to 1.

So, dabble away & have fun dreaming about what those exotic crosses might look like. Lora

Lora,
Thanks for that info, I'll dabble and with any luck I'll eventually get to grow my own hipp seedling to flowering!
I put zombie and appleblossom pollen on apricot beauty, tagged them and promplty removed the tags to take a photo, forgot to put them back on so now I don't know which flower got which pollen, AAAGGGGHHHHHHHH
I've got another scape coming up on each so I may just stop the pods from developing and try again.

Any idea how long pollen will keep?