Re: Tell-Tale TC
Daniel Nelson wrote:
>
> 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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Got back ----goin full tilt!!!!!!
Ran
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