Lovely seedling flower there Hoovb. I love it. I also love the viticella picture. The colors on both are fantastic. I assume this was a deliberate cross since you specified the parents? Which was the seed parent and which the pollen parent? How long from seed germination to flowering?

Love your seedling Hoovb...but I am partial to blues.

Joan

Seed was C. viticella and pollen was 'Blekitney Aniol'. Germination to flowering was only 1 year, but I only got 1 flower that year. Seed to germination was 1 year. This is the 3nd year with flowers. Plant is 8' tall so far this year, but still growing.

What a beautiful seedling. That is a keeper. With parents like that I am sure it will be a good bloomer.

Well all I can say again is way to go. One more question. Where did you get your clematis viticella? The color on yours is stupendous and much more vibrant than anything I have ever seen in pictures of clematis viticella--more purpley red than the pinkish colors? I would purchase one of those in a hearbeat!

NICE seedling there indeed, keep up the good work!

Terry

WOW congrats!!..Awesome results..well done you!!...Jeanne

One more question. Where did you get your clematis viticella?

I think it was Chalk Hill. It's been a long time.

Thank you to you all for your very kind comments!

Thanks HoovB for the info on the source of the viticella. I checked Chalk Hill and their picture looks the same as most others viticella pictures I have seen but the description sounds more like what you pictured--"dark blue-violet, nodding flowers with pale green stamens." Just goes to show that the pictures on various sites sometimes just doesn't do the flowers justice.

A couple more questions if you please. Did you get other seeds from the cross that gave similar results or did just the one seed germinate? If more were obtained, what was their coloration like? One last thing--how did you go about raising the plant from seed--vermiculite in baggie, soil in container, etc./any special germination tricks? Sorry for the questions, but inquiring minds want to know! LOL

Here is a link that might be useful: Viticella at Chalk Hill

Very nice cross; you got the bicolor effect of one but the larger, flat tepals of the other; a perfect intermediate.

I like your seedling better. It's beautiful.

Congratulations Hoov!

I really like it! You are a multi-talented gardener. Congrats on that beautiful thing.

Carol

I had 14 seeds, I cleared a little straight trench on the other side of the gate from C. viticella and planted them about 1/2" deep (too deep? too shallow?) covered with potting soil. I put an old strainer over the trench in case of earwigs or rabbits. I got 2 seedlings. I moved the other seedling because they were really close and it died. I have protected that one seed, then seedling, since 2004!

Papa Clem, Mama Clem, and Baby Clem:
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I have more seedlings from a cross of 2 years ago that I hope to get flowers from perhaps next year, C. viticella x 'Perle d'Azur' I got more seedlings this time, 6 out of 17 seeds germinated, planted at 3/4" deep instead of 1/2" deep, but the area is drier than the other spot and sunnier. I didn't do the strainer this time because I put up rabbit screening on the gate and the lizards eat all the earwigs now.

Then in another place in the yard I took all my 'Perle d'Azur' (open pollinated) deadheaded seedheads and scattered them and threw a little mulch over them and stomped them down and I have 3 seedlings from that. Here is one of them:
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I have 2 Nelly Moser open pollinated seedlings as well.

I am not doing this seriously, it is just for fun. Also I was sort of frustrated because I haven't been able to root any clematis cuttings, so I thought I would try seeds. Daylilys are waaaaaaaaaaay easier to cross and get seedlings from, but Clematis are more special, like 'Perle D'Azur':
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Thank you for all the kind comments!

Very nice! I'd buy it if I found it for sale somewhere.

Thanks for the info Hoovb. I like your technique of putting seeds in the ground and seeing what comes up. I have done that but I always forget to mark the spots. On top of that, I mulched heavily this spring so who knows if anything will come up.

I agree that daylilys are much easier to cross and get seedlings from. I have several that I started from seed and nothing really special formed but the process was way quicker and much easier.