SPICE ADDICTION
Name: Spice Addiction
Seedling Number: SSIMP3
Bloom Diameter: 6”
Scape Height: 48”
Branches: 4
Bud Count: 18
Bloom Season: EM
Rebloom: Yes
Color/Description: Deep orange with purple overlay, darker burgundy band, chartreuse to yellow throat.
Ploidy: Tet
Bloom Habit: diurnal
Foliage: Dorm
Pod Parent: Solaris Symmetry
Pollen Parent: Implausibility
Year Bred: 2011
Rust Resistance: A+/5Years
Fertile: Both Ways - extremely pod fertile here with high seed counts, easy pod set and excellent large seeds. This is my proto-type 'mother' plant. Good pollen too.
One of my F1 species outcross base introductions, I can't say enough good things about this plant. I hybridized it in 2011 and have greedily clung on to it every year since, refusing to introduce it because I have been breeding from it like crazy all these years. A half-sibling to The Spice Must Flow, Spice Addiction is an even better plant and breeder than its robust sibling, but is a smaller plant (though still large) and has smaller, shorter scapes (though, again, still tall and thick). Spice Addiction is a big plant, just not the monster its illustrious sibling is.
A+ rust resistance through all 5 years of testing, and showing very good thrips resistance, Spice Addiction also shows excellent breeding value for both traits, as well as big plants and flowers in non-species colors (see seedling pics below on this page at end of images section below). Spice Addiction isn't just a good breeder, but produces a lot of seeds (as so many of these F1 species outcross type do), as well as seeds of excellent quality. The seedlings tend to be big and vigorous. I consider Spice Addiction one of my main F1 species outcross base plants.
Below you will find multiple pictures of Spice Addiction from 2015 through 2021, first in the seedling bed and then in the line out garden. There are 23 images below. The first 14 are of Spice Addiction on all the gardens on our farm. The last 9 images are of some of my favorite seedlings from Spice Addiction. Spice Addiction has been one of my main seed production tets. I have used her in many ways and continue to use her as of summer 2021. Click on any image below to see a large image and easily look through all the images in a photo gallery.
