Mark, was it difficult getting seed to form in either direction of that cross ? It’s one I’ve been very curious to try, and now that I have the right plants I will although maybe not till next year. The fact that you got seed in both directions is pretty inspiring. Will you sow the pandurata x balatas seed? Unfortunately I agree with your assessment of pandurata flavor, I don’t consider it edible.
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I have a few flowering batatas plants right now and just found a flowering pandurata down the road. Maybe I can try a couple of attempts this season still. It’s interesting how it was at least easy to get seed in your case, because Ipomoea apparently has a lot of crossing barriers.
After finding local vines I searched up pandurata and found a comment on the Nomad Seed page post about a pandurata hybrid. This sounds like a legit account, and if true shows that pandurata has a much wider crossing ability (at least as a mother in this combo) than most Ipomoea. Pandurata x digitata should be more distant than pandurata x batatas.
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