Serjio: Looking forward to the results!
Daphne: give it a go. It's easier than you think and fun just to play around making a few crosses.
Back in November 2018, I noted that I had a promising pod from this cross:
Australis said: X = 
The inverse cross didn't take. I think I'll be trying a few more early-flowering crosses with 'Saffron Drift', as I was impressed with how well it stood up to the weather (just about everything else ended up with a lean or blown over).
Well, in early January the pod cracked and I harvested it. There were 32 seeds inside:
Based on Robin's experience with direct planting (rather than drying then soaking the seeds), I decided to try planting the seeds out straight away (since I can always repeat the cross if the experiment failed). After about 10 weeks, the first couple of seedlings appeared; now there are five:
It will be interesting to see if more come up in Spring.
