I am posting an image of Andreas Maschke (B3) flowering in my garden. Very nice plant, herbaceous in appearance, very similar to its pollen parent. The flowers have pollen and carpels.
I have used its pollen on so called fertile itohs to increase the tree peony characters and obtain fertile backcrosses. I tried it also on herbaceous hybrids like Blushing Princess and Old Faithful and got a few seeds last year. I have pollinated B3 with other similar peonies like B2 and B1 but results are still to come. I have a couple of seedlings from Andreas Maschke open pollinated still very small.
This plant and its siblings are very promising for breeding![]()
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I have tried B3 pollen on several itohs such as Watermelon Wine, Belle Tolousaine, Sonoma Rosy Future, Gordon Simonsen but no seeds yet. This year I have tried also the same pollen on Golden Experience. Results if any will be visible in a couple of months. I do not want to cross these RIBC2 with herbaceous hybrids because it increases the herbaceous chromosome set and appearance.
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@roberto I forgot to answer your question about my results hybridizing with this, sorry. Now that I see this post again I suddenly remember…
Growing seedlings currently from these crosses with B3 (Andreas Maschke):
(Big Jhonny x open) double pink x B3: 9 seedlings
(Old Faithful x Grand Massive)001 x B3: 2 small ones
(Pink Vanguard x Buoy Master)005 x B3: 4 seedlings
Old Faithful x B3: 12 seedlings, some growing very well
B3 x (Pink Vanguard x Buoy Master)003: 2 seedlings
(Strong Coral x Grand Massive) 001 ‘Invictus’ x B3: 2 seedlingsI haven’t tried it on tree peonies as you have.
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@roberto Have you obtained any seedlings from the cross Itohs x B3?