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Lyshack said:

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???

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.

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Thank you very much for the above observation, Tim. I am glad to know that wimpy traits don't get passed down to the offsprings. I do have many imperfect seedlings that exhibit both positive and negative traits. It is very hard to decide which ones to keep and which ones to cull.