These have turned out to be among the easiest to grow of all the gesneriads.

Hybridizing can be tricky as they are inclined to self-pollinate. But with proper precautions hybridizing can be successful and quite rewarding!

Apparently species of Manfreda can cross with members of Agave and also Polianthes. That makes Manfreda virginica an ideal parent since it is native and cold-hardy here.

I want to cross it with the less cold-hardy but more showy species like Polianthes tuberosa. I especially want to try the newer more colorful and fragrant cutlivars like 'Golden Harvest'.

Some prickly pear cactuses are actually native to Ohio. They are gloriously showy in their own right, but I have aspirations to hybridize them with other species from the Atlantic Coast, the Gulf Coast, and of course the Rockies.

A subgroup of Phalaenopsis orchids has super-fragrant flowers with fuzzy lips. I love them SO MUCH I just have to try hybridizing them.

I've become obsessed with this tribe of gesneriads. They're native range is from Bolivia to the Guianas and up to Mexico. Historically several genera have been crossed with each other, but by and large the group has been ignored by hybridizers.

I created this wheel in January 2017 to help me get a grasp on what crosses have been successful, and what new crosses are likely to be successful. As of March 2017 I have 11 genera in active growth, with another 4 soon to be added. About half of my intergeneric crosses this winter have produced seeds, and I'm now in the process of harvesting & germinating those.

Progress has been painfully slow but I've been working with tropical species of the Section & Subsection Decaloba to try to produce a hybrid with the temperate species P. lutea, which is also a Decaloba member.

The goal is to create a cold-hardy variety that is visually more stunning and perhaps larger than P. lutea. Regrettably I've had 0% success in producing seeds.

I've become obsessed with Spec-X iris crosses. I especially like making crosses where one of the parents is Iris tectorum, foetidissima, or versicolor.

It is surprising just how many times you can get a seed pod with Iris versicolor as a parent. But it can be a challenge raising the seedlings to maturity.

I'm doing a lot of hybridizing with Streptocarpus. I have no end-goal in mind other than to enjoy the process of experimenting with different parents and line-breeding them to pull out the recessive traits.