Re: seedling variation
From: Gullo <tgf@frontiernet.net>
Hi Lloyd,
I too have noticed that branching , bud count and overall stalk height are
most likely to be atypical during maiden bloom. It seems as though some plants
reach some minimum level of maturity at which they are able to bloom yet lack
the sufficient stored energy or some other factor to bloom to their fullest
capacity. On the changes regarding the space age characteristics, an
interesting idea was put forth by Kathy Guest on the list a few months back
suggesting temperature as a key determinant to the completeness or lack of for
space age appendages. As I grow only a few SA, my experience is somewhat
limited, but one reblooming IB seedling I grow makes me think that there may
some validity to this notion. The particular plant in question is I believe
out of a cross involving Zurich X Baby Blessed and blooms early for an IB in
the spring and often tries to rebloom, but is usually too late in it's
attempt. As the plant blooms early , it is usually subjected to our somewhat
cool spring temperatures and the late rebloom means that it experiences the
cooler temperatures of our late fall. This plant has never in the years that I
have grown it displayed space age features except once. In the fall of 1998 we
had unusually warm weather well into the fall and this IB (which is a white
self) had purple horns. The only variable which differed significantly was the
temperature in which the stalks developed and matured. The archives have some
material on this question of temperature and Space Agers. I'd like to hear
more from others who have more experience with Space Agers. I've read that you
are devoting a good deal of time working on Space Agers and would welcome any
comments you might have to offer on them.
Michael Gullo
West Walworth, N.Y.
zone 6
"L.Zurbrigg" wrote:
> < look at one seedling here. The first year
> it bloomed on a tall stalk with hardly any branching, but had a gorgeous
> yellow flower with huge self-colored flounces. The second year (l999) it
> had excellent branching, but the flounces hadd now become much smaller and
> were spoons.
> It is fairly common for the branching to be atypical the
> first year. I guess that the fact that each stalk had now to prepare not
> two but 7 or 8 flowers, might account for the less size of the additional
> parts. The color was virtually the same both years. >
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