Re: Hosta Seeds
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- Subject: Re: Hosta Seeds
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- Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 07:53:30 -0300
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><< 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
>
>I learned at a Plant Propagation course that the best way for this plant to
be propagated was through root division. Is this correct...????
Wanda
