Hybridnizing

With outdoor plants hybridizing can be done readily in fall until the cold stops the blooms from coming and in the spring once blooming starts. Overcast days are always good times to give it a try. With indoor plants you can do it anytime you have flowers, sometimes it will work and sometimes not but there is always a chance when the highs are under 80F and the lows are above 50F as in most homes. Humidity helps and of course if you use a known seed setter as the mother plant your odds are much increased. One frustration outdoors is after making a successful cross but before the seed pod can ripen the weather turns too cold or too hot and pod drops off. That is why making crosses too late in fall or spring is not likely to be successful.

Charlie