Re: Cult: seedling metamorphosis - was PHOTO JEANNE HOLLEY SEEDLING
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- Subject: Re: Cult: seedling metamorphosis - was PHOTO JEANNE HOLLEY SEEDLING
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- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 07:10:15 -0600
From: "Donald Eaves" <donald@eastland.net>
Linda Mann asked re:
>> Also this is a 1994 seedling, so it should have
>> finished its metamorphosis
>
>Would some of you who have had experience with seedlings and the way
>they 'metamorphose' talk about this some? It's been mentioned here, but
>not discussed enough for me to know what it means.
>
I'll chime in here with Linda. The bee pod seedlings which haven't been
tossed on the compost pile after their maiden bloom have shown no
variation in growth, color, bloom quantity or time of bloom in the
subsequent
seasons. There has actually been more variation in purchased rhizomes.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7
>Are all seedlings different their first year of bloom? What's
>different? How does it change (abruptly the next year or gradually over
>several years)? Do some charactersitics take longer to change than
>others? Are the changes only related to plant habit or do they apply to
>bloom color and pattern as well?
>
>And anything else you can think of.
>
>Such as, does anybody know or care to speculate about <why> these
>changes happen (re: plant morphology/physiology)?
>
>Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
>
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