Re: Stabilizing Sports

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Bill Meyer wrote:

 

 

 Hi Chick,        What I mean is that some types of chimeras are so unstable by nature that no amount of working with them is likely to give you a plant that will consistantly put out divisions that look like the one you're after. Probably the least likely to form a stable cultivar would be the ones that have a leaf that is one color on one side of the mid-vein and another color on the other side. I guess a lot of us have seen leaves with this pattern, but I'll bet nobody saw a plant that kept producing divisions with all the leaves showing that pattern. In general, non-streaked sectorial chimeras seem the least likely of the more common types to stabilize. "Stability" is, of course a relative term with Hosta.                                                                                                   ........Bill Meyer

Chick asks:

 What does that mean?

Bill Meyer wrote:

 Some types probably cannot be stabilized.