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Blog 2016

More and More on Color

October 23, 2016  08:00

We have continued to examine the spectrum of absorbance of various flowers and we show three below.

What is interesting is that the "blue" one, caryopteris has two strong dips with a block in the green yellow band. It is worth loking at these in detail.

More on Color

July 19, 2016  08:00

We have been doing a lot of spectrophotometry on the pigments. Below is Indian Giver.

Note the peak absorption at 530 nm somewhat in the green spectrum. Remember that white light hits the flower petal, passes through the colored cells and then reflects back out the same way. If the cell absorbs green and does not absorb red then we get red. Here we see not much red and some on the blue end with a peak in green.

Below is Halloween Cat:

Here the blues absorb a bit more. I will write up the technique. You have to dilute the anthocyanin to an optimum level, requires matching peaks.

Open House

July 7, 2016  08:00

We have an Open House this weekend. It will be from 10-4 on Saturday and Sunday. Open for all.

	Maria Made Me My grand daughter made this cross. Looks great!
	Daniel's Delight This is a wonderful light lavender.
	Dottore Giuseppe A great bicolor
	Florham Paris Nights Nice pastel
	H hakunensis
	Miss Judy Lynn

 

End of June Highlights

June 25, 2016  08:00

Unlike previous years where we gave daily updates we will just try to give weekly highlights.

	09.117 I have been watching this one. It is fantastic, good bud count strong color.
	Windham Orange Glow I like the Windham plants.
	Miss Judy Lynn A recent intro.
	Destined to See I really like this one
	Rapp Sure Song A new intro, ruffled edges
	Florham Orange Surprise A bicolor
	New Perspective Interesting Bi color

 

Flowering Has Started

June 19, 2016  08:00

Flowering has commenced. It beat 95F today so we expect some bloome.

	Early Bird Cardinal
	H fulva
	Stella Doro
	Wings of Chance
	H minor Siberia Apps
	Orange Prelude
	Marvelous Muriel
	Buckeye A Stout Hybrid with fantastic blooms almost for a month!

 

More Species

May 22, 2016  08:00

The other species are coming out now.

	H middendorfii Note the chrome color, almost orange.
	H dumortierii Note the brownish color on outside of sepals

 

First Species

May 15, 2016  08:00

The first species blooms have come out. H minor.

	H minor Lemon Yellow, grass like leaves, recumbent scapes, lie almost to the ground.
	H minor buds
	H middendorfii buds
	H dumoetieri buds

 

First Blooms

May 10, 2016  08:00

The first bloom is Elfin.

Elfin The earliest daylily a Stout

 

First Buds

April 22, 2016  08:00

The first buds are here, early but not that early. Elfin which is the early Stout and H middendorfii.

	Elfin This is a great Stout plant, very early bloom.
	H middendorfii This is the early species.

 

The Beginning

January 3, 2016  08:00

Well, Happy New Year! We have started this year by sorting, analyzing, and staging our seed for this coming season. We did 526 crosses, with 286 mature pods for a 54.4% yield. This is one of our better yields. The overall results are as follows:

The above is the number of viable seeds per day of cross. What is of interest is cross correlating this with maximum daily temperature. For example the drop in mid July is we believe due to excess temperature.

The above is the seed distribution. Namely this is the distribution of seeds per pod and its cumulative. It clearly is not Gaussian as has been the case with all previous years. The average is about 12 seeds per pod but we do have extreme outliers.

The above is the plot of the number of seed and time to mature. Namely the time between cross and seed collection. Note we have some very short seed times and some very long. The bulk is between 42 to 65 days.