Also, I want to cross Charisma (a beautiful mislabel that I love so much!) with Dancing Queen's pollen. Would the ploidy be okay?

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Hi My,

Put Dancing Queen on Charisma, hopefully you took Charisma's pollen off in time as I've found that the short stigma often get selfed with no help! This cross should take and give you some bright flashy flowers..Charisma (for me anyway) always makes nice fat seedpods that produce good seeds. Wait until Charisma's stigma has curled up and is begging for pollen and then dab the pollen several times over a few days...

As for getting seedpods on Dancing Queen, you would have to find a fully formed stigma, not one attached to one of the petals and not a partial one. This is not impossible, but very doubtful but, you should get the same results using Charisma as the seed parent.

My Dancing Queen was slightly fragrant and it was hubby that discovered it, he has a habit of sticking his nose in all my flowers!! ;-)

Let us know how you make out...

Donna