Re: (no subject)
Narda,
Sum and Substance does like to sport. I have tried to determine the way the
plant sports in our laboratory, and it does not always make sense to me.
Since you are interested in Sum & Substance, here is the information that we
have. (WFTC: Winterberry Farms Tissue Culture, a sport that appeared in
our Laboratory.)
Sum & Substance (light green) --> Bottom Line (dark green/good gold
edge) WFTC
-->Dark Green
form WFTC
-->Variable
Sum (gold center/thin green edge) WFTC
-->
Gold form WFTC
not Winterberry Farms ?--->Lady Isobel Barnett (variable gold
edge), Sum It Up (very
dark green/thin gold
edge), Sum Total (?), and many others
Sum & Substance (light green) ---->Eagles Nest (Ran Lydell, dark green/
very wide gold edge
that develops
slowly, leaves with heavy substance,
tetraploid?)
Sum & Substance (light green) ---> Blizzard (fairly stable white
streak) WFTC
--> Winter
Snow (white edge) WFTC
--> Bankrupt
(White center/green edge, dwarf) WFTC
The sporting direction that yields Winter Snow makes sense, but how did
S&S go directly to Bottom Line (and presumably Eagles Nest, Lady Isobel
Barnett, Sum It Up, Sum Total, and others?) In our lab, there was no
intermediary streaked stage and I have never seen a light green form with a
gold edge. Also, Bottom Line appeared first followed by the non-variegated
dark green and gold forms.
Jim Anderson
----- Original Message -----
From: <NardaA@aol.com>
To: <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: (no subject)
> Denise, I have Mr. Big, I bought everything that I saw with the name big
in
> it after I saw the pictures of Sandra Pedrick's Sum Total on Mark Houpt's
> site. That is one awesome hosta. By the way everyone does anyone know
> Sandra, I still want a piece of that one.
> > I have also collected all the sports of Sum and Substance that I can
find,
> most of them look better than S&S.
>
> Now we are going to have a discussion of S&S, which I still like. It was
one
> that started it all for me.
>
> Have a Great Day,
> Narda
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