Re: Tell-Tale TC

Ran,
You caught me!!!! I thought you might still be in Peoria waiting on the fan
motor for your car. I was just trying to see if anyone really reads my
postings. <grin>
Glad to see you made it home.
Dan Nelson
Bridgeville DE
zone 7
-----Original Message-----
From: RL <ranbl@netsync.net>
To: hosta-open@mallorn.com <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
Date: Thursday, July 02, 1998 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: Tell-Tale TC


>Daniel Nelson wrote:
>>
>> Barbara,
>> If a sport is not removed there is a possibility that it may not be
>> expressed the second year. If a sport is not as vigorous as the mother
plant
>> it sported from it may be outgrown and smothered out. It might also
remain
>> latent the next season and not be expressed at all(still  in the
>> rhizome(crown) but  without a leaf). This would make it very hard to
find.
>> It may never be seen again.
>>
>> Some people will then grow this sport until it has six or eight leaves.
>> Sometimes each leaf will have its own individual pattern. I have seen
Alex
>> Summers cut such a plant into as many  individual leaf bud cuttings as he
>> can in the fall. Each leaf becomes an individual plant. Then the plants
are
>> grown and watched.
>>
>> Sometimes the sport is more vigorous than the mother plant. The hosta
'Spilt
>> Milk' sometimes will throw a green sport that is called H. 'Green Milk'
that
>> has more vigor than its mother plant. My guess is that  'Green Milk'
grows
>> about three times as fast as 'Spilt Milk. It will dominate the clump in a
>> few years.
>>
>> There are many examples of this happening in hosta.
>>
>> Corrections and additions are welcome.
>>
>> Ran Nelson
>> Bridgeville DE
>> zone 7
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: BBROWNJ@aol.com <BBROWNJ@aol.com>
>> To: hosta-open@mallorn.com <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 4:00 PM
>> Subject: Re: Tell-Tale TC
>>
>> >Ran:
>> >
>> >How does removing a sport keep it from reverting anyway? Why is it more
>> likely
>> >to revert if still attached? I realize it could still revert even if
>> detached.
>> >
>> >Barbara Jones
>> >Mass
>> >z4b/5
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>I am pleased to see you like my first name better than your own.
>Actually I couldn't have said what you just said any better, so I am
>happy to see my name on it.
>Ran
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