
Dale Martens' presentation was mostly on hybridization of Streptocarpus for compact size - so packed with information that you really need to hear it twice. If you took notes, you missed things, and if you didn't take notes, your memory has to be a lot better than mine.... She covered not only her hybridizing, but also the efforts of Kenji Hirose and Toshijiro Okuto of Japan, Harold Koopowitz's crossing of Streptocarpus meyeri and dunni (memorable to me because I've heard him speak about hybridizing for teacup-sized Paphiopedilum) and others.

The last part of Dale's presentation featured new hybrids in other genera, including miniatures like Jim Steuerlein's Sinningia Li'l George (sp Rio das Pedras x concinna), and Dale's intergeneric with Gloxinia perrenis, Seemannia gymnostoma and purpurascens.
Peter Shalit also presented an in-progress report on hybridizing with Sinningia speciosa (wild forms), guttata and lindleyi, thus far resulting in guttata-like plants with varying flower color and spottiness (smaller spots, spots in stripey formation, etc.).
I walked away with one very practical tip from Dale's presentation - mark the potential seed pods using a dab of acrylic color on the calyx, and then insert a tag in the pot identifying the parentage for each color. This beats dangling tags or tying color string on each flower!