Seedfork said:I love questions like this because it makes me realize again how unobservant I actually am.
I like it when the crowd is stumped and the responses are few and uncertain.
Of all the things I do track, this isn't one of them. I flipped through some seedling pics to see if anything rang a bell. I did have one seedling which, in it's first year, had a tendency to lose a sepal or two on windy days. And last summer, it lost that trait. So maybe it's not hopeless???
I suppose it also matters if you got a really good look at. Some times you get a short scape with 3-5 blooms on it the 1st year, and I don't think you can count on any of those blooms representing what your final bloom will be like in any way. But if you got one or two scapes with 12 or more blooms, then you might have gotten a pretty good look at it.
And one more food for thought. I bought a seedling from Olallie because it bloomed very, very late. It's bloom is pretty thin and breaks in the wind, but I've used it trying to hybridize more very very late ones, and it passes the late trait on without passing on its whimpy petals. So if you really like everything about it but the substance, maybe you can still use it to get where you want to be.
