Pan American Seed

This is another year of great year of intros for PAS. Even though it looks like I posted a lot more pics of this visit than others previous, there is even more to see than below.


Petunia Pretty Grande and Petunia Pretty Flora
Both of these new series follow in the footsteps of the Hem Limbo/Mambo series of no/low PGR bedding flat petunias, but there are significant improvements over the former(uniformity,tight flowering window,PAS seed quality, and very good red). Their tight habit, with great low structural branching allows for a short shipable/sellable plant for the grower. The benefit of the good lower branching is seen later in the summer when the plants do not crack open as much as your standard petunias.




Vinca Jams n Jelly Blackberry
This is almost as dark as this picture shows, just knock it down a couple shades in real life. Still there's no comparison out there. Very cool!




Vinca Jams n Jelly American Pie Mix
Now you have a true heat tolerant red/white/blue mix to sell for the 4th of July.




Petunia Sophistica Blackberry
We all knew that Black Velvet grew like a standard upright petunia from seed... Now we have a black petunia from seed. While Blackberry is a shade off of black, PAS says it will darken in the summer sun.




PAS is putting a large focus on breeding of new vegetables. Ellen Leue, who brought us many of the Super Elfin Impatiens, Luna Hibiscus and Serena Angelonia, is now leading the new breeding program for vegetables. This season they are introducing a hanging basket tomato that holds on to it's fruit much better, an etching resistant jalepeno and a few others.

Zucchini Easy Pick
A green and yellow zucchini have been bred for spineless petioles. Which means no scratches on your hand when you pick your zucchini.




Salvia Lighthouse Purple
I like big flowering plants like Lighthouse Salvia, so I was excited to see a purple companion to the Red.




Cool Wave Pansy
This was a soft launch this year due to a late introduction in the fall. Dr. T has done a fantastic job in this series. Compared to the competition: Freefall and Wonderfall, the flower size is bigger and the trailing habit is larger. In our area I would only recommend these for early spring baskets right now(3ppp 10"), however I was interested to hear the idea of growing it along side with an outdoor mum program in a large patio pot.





You can see how big this can grow. I think this is a 10" pot and you can see that is almost down to the bottom of the pot.