What Exactly IS Hybridizing?

20 years ago

Is it as simple as pollinating one cultivar with another?

If I take the pollen of a Hibiscus syriacus 'Sky Blue' and cross it with H. syriacus 'Monstrosus', is this a hybrid? Or do I have to take H. syriacus and pollinate H. rosa-sinensis? OR are they both hybrids?

I don't think this is a small subject, but can someone please open the blinds for me (haha)?

Thanks!

Myka

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agrinerd
20 years ago
Sure, they're both hybrids. The first generation of any cross, even if the parents differ by only one gene, can technically be called a hybrid, but what hybridizers usually look for is the increased vigor and combinations of traits that come about from crosses of more dissimilar parents.
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