Re: HYB: Seedling metamorphosis
From: Gullo <tgf@frontiernet.net>
Hello all,
Not only can the amount of sun make a difference in the color, but
temperature variations can impact the color as well. I have one reblooming IB
seedling that can vary tremendously in it's color depending on the temperatures
present during the bud maturation process. At times this plant blooms a
beautiful light butter yellow, sometimes it can be quite bronzy and on occasion
when temps. are on the cold side the blooms appear as a grayish color with a
hint of lavender. Other factors may be contributing as well.
Temperature also can play a role in stalk height and branching and likely
flower size and form. Other cultural variables also play a role: the amount of
moisture, fertilizer, additional soil amendments and their frequency and timing
can all conspire to alter a plants characteristics in any given bloom season.
The advice to observe a seedling over the course of 3 or more seasons to
gauge it's performance seems to me to be quite sound.
Playing with rebloomers, as I do, this advice is even more crucial. One
needs to know just how dependable a seedling is in it's strength of rebloom.
Three years not only gives you an opportunity to test for color stability,
form, branching and the like, but also and perhaps more importantly, it gives
you the chance to see just how durable and vigorous a seedling may be.
Michael Gullo
West Walworth, N.Y.
zone 6
-where it is already down to 1 below F. at 5:00pm-
Sharon McAllister wrote:
>
> Color can differ with growing conditions. For example -- pink isn't going
> to change into blue, but a lavender pink can tend toward pink under one set
> of condtions and toward lavender in another. I selected CLOSE APPROACH as
> the pinkest I'd ever seen of the type -- but shade is at a premium here and
> it had always been grown in full sun or filtered shade. When I later tried
> it in a bed with almost full shade it was much more lavender. [Bear in
> mind that "full shade" in southern NM is much like "full sun" in some other
> parts of the country.] This also happens with named cultivars, but should
> not be as pronouced as with seedlings because introductions have
> theoretically been selected with stability as one of the important
> criteria.
>
>
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