Re: Hosta Seeds
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- Subject: Re: Hosta Seeds
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- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 23:15:50 EDT
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In a message dated 10/22/98 11:11:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
kalphal@mich.com writes:
<< Have a large yellow-gold hosta with a stem of seed pods. Is there a good
chance the seedlings will be yellow? Have grown seed from Hosta Francis
Williams and the seedlings were nothing like the parent in leaf pattern,
just plain green. >>
Open pollinated seedlings from hostas will usually only give you plain green
plants. The only way to get variegated hosta seedlings is from streaked
unstable plants and then you have to grow them on for a number of years until
they "settle out".
If your hosta plant was pollinated with its own pollen you might get some
seedlings that are gold, however, like all hybrids, the chances of it being an
exact copy of the parent are "0". Hosta breeding is very iffy IMHO. Donna
