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Re: [SANS] Variegated Sansevierias and a Cheer for Grigsby's

At 05:14 PM 12/6/97 -0600, James W. Waddick wrote:
>Dear Sanseviaristas-
>        I recently got a note from a correspondent. We were discussing both
>the quality of certain variegated Sansevieria and the possibility of
>producing  variegation by chemical treatment. My associate had purchased
>variegated Sanseviaria from a variety of sources that my friend thought
>that some might be both natural 'sports'  and others chemically produced
>variegates. This friend was quite strong in denouncing certain sources, but
>to protect this person's identity and the identity of  the sources of this
>person's dissapointing plants, I have revised the note to me to encourage
>the use of a source my friend finds to be excellent. This is meant to be a
>positive note and encourage users of this list to be concerned about
>"bargains." For anonymity sake I have used the term "X" to be a collective
>term for various  un-named  sources.
> let me add my resounding endorsement of this belief. I have found that
the chemical goosing of variegatior or other anomalies is a cheap thrill
indeed. furthermore, in my yakking with the good folks at Grigsby's (who
had  also gotten some mother plants from a source we all suspected of
playing whith chemicals), they had a piss-poor rate of reproduction and got
many horrible letters from folks who got plants which did nothing BUT revert.

I no longer remember the rate of variegation from seed-grown monocots, tho
I seem to think it is about, oh 1 out of 10 thou. when I have gone hunting
in wholesale Clivia nurseries, this seems about right. So unless a person
has Sansevierias by the gazillions I would suspect "Someone's in the
kitchen with Dinah"....if they keep coming up with undocumented variegates.
I have a S. schweinfurthii pup with some weak variegation, but it is
spontaneous and I do not fool with chemicals.  We know that variegated
clumping monocots will in a colony produce sold green and totally ungreen
plants in the colony...but this is not the lack of stability we are talking
about is it?

hermine
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