Oh, please more eye candy! These are gorgeous! Are they seedlings from your crosses?

What defines a streaker? Medio-variegation?

Lovely stuff! No streakers here, sad but true.....

Sherry

unstable variegation, most change from year to year. heading to a stable margin or medio.

mine are seedlings.

this one is from one of my fragrant streakers. trying for a fragrant bouquet type with red petioles. very difficult to get it all and still be fragrant.

if you can maintain them to and older plant they can be really pretty

To me it is like a wild painting, love it !

They are all so beautiful! Hosta_maker I hope you accomplish that goal !

a few more since some of you like them

fickle blue genes

gold mist

dorset clown

oil paint

I do have Rainbows End. Only second year.Hosta_maker, you have a real gift!

thanks,

rainbows end is unique. i tried it. it doesn't seem to be fertile.

for the last 3 years most of my efforts have centered on reds. stay tuned.

Hostamaker those above are just stunning, which one did you find produced most streaked seedlings?

Love the yellows and that green in the middle of first pic row looks like streaked Jade cascade leaf is something else!

Also about seed sources? I have few plants and got few seeds at winter hosts meeting as well as couple from Don Rawson.

DJ, I too love my rainbow end, it is easy to grow and very pretty!

I love the streakers, each leaf is unique. I only have a couple of them.

Regal Promenade

Ghost Spirit

Rainbow's End and Allegan Fog

Streaking with evenness in the mother works well. From there it's fertility and traits you like. some produce seed well. Others are disappointing. It's all part of the process. You have to be in it for the long haul to achieve plants worthy of introduction.

I sometimes donate seed to the hosta seed growers auction. Watch for links at the hostalibray in late fall

A selection of last years seedlings taken back in April.

Dave

Dave your streakers are beautiful as well! I especially like #7. Are you hoping to cultivate them for sale? Or are they for fun only?

Dave, love how even streaking on the leaves. Work of art! Live 2, 6 and 7 the most. Do you keep info on your crosses?

It's all just for fun. I keep some info on the crosses but in the main I rely on Mother Nature and select the best. The weather here in Wales ( cool and wet ) means it is difficult to anticipate which plants are flowering at the same time in order to make specific crosses. As with any hybridising project it is very long term and I am still only in year four.

Dave

A couple of this years that caught my eye today.

Dave

Well Dave keep up the good work, Maybe I will be buying one of youRd someday! Same with you other streaker freaks, keep at it, you all have some real beauties!

Some of the new beauties

The sweetest thing

And other babies growing

The last two are trying to stabilize?

This 2 year old seedling is stabilizing into a nice mini/small plant.

It reminds me of Sagae or one of its sports. Liberty etc

I've decided to give some of my seedlings names and have taken the villages of Wales as a source.

This one is Carno

Dave

Oh, this is my biggest love, small crunchy minies! So cute! Do you know origins? I have to figure out this hybridizing part so I can get some tiny crunchy cuties too.

Sorry, I am a let the bees do it hybridizer.

The weather here is so erratic it's impossible to get the right plant together with the right pollinator. I would have to start freezing pollen and that's a step to far for me at present.

What's curious is that all the seed I have collected come from plants that are in the large or giant categories.

That's not to say the pollen couldn't have come from a small plant. However all my streaked breeders are in the greenhouse where there are no small plants.

The bee that pollinated could easily have flown the distance from my smaller plants to the greenhouse.

I may be wrong in all of this and size is random I just don't know. A question for the geneticists amongst us.

Dave