Zypher variegation

I was down at Charlie Purtymun's place (Walden West) today - working 
on my truck that I was lucky to manage to get to his place before it 
gave out.  I live 5 miles further up the road then Charlie.  Anyway, 
hostas were coming up and looking nice.  Charlie showed me a flat of 
seedlings from a (Zypher seedling) x various hostas.  I didn't try to 
count them, but I would say some 10 to 15 percent of the seedlings 
were nicely variegated.  The first leaves were well developed and the 
variegated seedlings were just as vigorous as the green leaved 
seedlings.  Many of the variegated seedlings were very nice for 
seedlings that only germinated a few weeks earlier.

I forgot to ask Charlie if the Zypher seedling was variegated, but I 
would guess it was.  Zypher is a hosta that hardly looks like it would 
produce so many variegated seedlings - it's difficult to see the 
variegation, but yet it produces some very nice variegated seedlings 
and these variegated seedlings produce their own variegated seedlings! 
This would indicate some genetic component to hosta variegation.  If 
anyone has obtained Zypher seed from Charlie and gotten variegated 
seedlings, use those variegated seedlings.  I suspect that if the 
correct Zypher seedlings are intermated that it might be possible to 
produce seedlings that produce 100 percent variegated seedlings with 
certain crosses.

Joe Halinar

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