Re: RE:Cult;: Canadian Streaker Seedlings

I have read of two (non-iris) plants being grown to maturity.
One was grafted onto a non-albino.  That was alfalfa, both the albino and what it was grafted on.  Now that I think of it, many albino cactus are grown that way.
The other albino plant I know of being grown to maturity was an African violet, Sainpaulia sp.  It was grown by turnig it upside down daily, at least daily, and spraying it with a sugar-water solution, mixed with fungicide.  Most pores in the leaves are on the bottom, at least on African violets.  And I think it was kept in a sterile chamber, but I am not sure.
The albino iris are dying of lack of sugar, I'm sure.  So getting sugar in is the thing to do. Or find out the difference between the albino and normal leaves and supply the chemical that stimulates the chloriphyl production.  That is assuming that the iris do have the code for chlorophyl.
Walter

irischapman@netscape.net wrote:
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Does anyone have some ideas re feeding these white seedlings so they will survive a bit longer. Perhaps some ideas re a foliar fertilizer?

Chuck Chapman

I don't have any special treatments. They are close to lights. Perhaps some extra plant food so they survive long enough to produce chlorophyl in those capable of it may help. As there is a tendency for Canadian Streaker to throw green increases perhaps some of these guys will green up. Hope springs eternal.
You should post this on iris-talk and perhaps someone else will have some ideas to try.
Or will you give me permision to post it?

Chuck

crook wrote:

> Hello Chuck:
>
> Do you do anything special to try and encourage your
>near albinos to produce some chlorophyll?
>
> I have one lily cultivar [a species] that as pod
>parent produces some near albinos [about 7 or 8
>percent of it`s seedlings].
>
> I did manage to carry one seedling through last
>winter and it ended up producing a bit of chlorophyll.
>Enough? I woun`t know until next spring. Others I
>managed to keep going for as long as 6 or 7 weeks,
>that is after losing the first few fairly quick.
>
> I have some near albinos again from the same pod
>parent this year, one [now five weeks old] has greened
>up by about 25 percent, I woun`t lose it. This is much
>more then the one I managed to grow through last
>winter which only managed to green up by about 10
>percent. The other two are about a week and a half old
>and are taking on a cream-ish looking tint, which in
>my experience [although quite limited] is a faze they
>go through before any green starts appearing.
>
> I`v achieved this by placing them closer to the light
>source, about 4 inches from the florescent tube and
>directly under it.
>
> I would very much like to hear what you have
>attempted to keep your Iris seedlings of this type
>growing.
>
> Darm - where it only got down to -28C. last night
>with a forecast low of -32c. tonight. One hour north
>of the 60th. latitude.

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