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Re: [SANS] Variegated Sansevierias

The clone of Sansevieria sulcata "Variegate' as Grigsby called it, and the
one Jim made reference to, is the one that takes almost one year to develop
variegation. Grigsby was fully aware of it and told me so when I paid $
100.- for a plant. I am sure he told everybody else about this also.  It
was the time before I could produce variegation. My own clone  of the plant
shows variegation on the purple sheath below right when the plants grows, a
thing impossible to see in Grigsby's clone since the sheath withers by the
time the variegation develops.
Grigsby has (or had) plant S. aff. dawei "Variegated" that takes about six
months to develop its variegation.

Also, most of you may not know, but Grigsby told me that he had three
clones of Mason Congo "Variegated". He was propagating the green plant in
such masses that it variegated on him three times. So one of them may be
not all that great.
I have more than ten different clones and though have not followed them all
very carefully,  two  clones I have now have produced nothing, I mean
nothing, but variegated pups of egg-yolk color.

It is my experience that whether natural (what is "natural" when it is
aberrant?) or induced it is incorrect to jump to conclusions until one does
a serious study. My experience is opposite of that of Jim's associate and
Hermine. Again I repeat, this is only my experience not based on actual
study. Induced variegation is more consistent than "natural". Again, one
has to select clones.
At present I am doing a study with S. trifasciata. I have obtained more
than thirty different  clones of S. t. 'Wagner's Gold' and one direct S. t.
'Craigii' , One of them grows white variegation (Bantell's Sensation white)
and then turns yellow. Every single pup, three already, has done that. They
are all planted out in the ground, where they grow slower at the beginning
but hopefully will grow faster later.

Yet another example  of "natural": variegation are Sansevieria  halli (ex-
Baseball Bat), which gives one green our of every four pups and also  S.
sp. "HBG 22830" about 50 %.
There are scores of examples for plants other than Sansevieria. I just
bought a White variegated banana plant "AeAe" , close to # 100 (it has
produced four new huge leaves in month and a half) that is can totally
revert to green ! (the same plant, not the pups).

Cheers

Juan
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