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Re: [SG] Hosta EnduranceVigor

At 04:07 PM 4/4/98 EST, you wrote:
>Remarkable hostas aren't they?
>
>Hosta seedlings here (just a handful) are preparing to bloom
>after less than six monthes from seed...just found a venusta
>seedling (could fit in a coffee mug) with a scape this
>morning and near it a seedling from Ran Lydell's PERIDOT
>(hyacinthina  stock) with a scape.  They have gotten water
>and fish emulsion and anti-aphid spray and 24 hour lights.
>I can already see the lavender color on a flower bud on a
>(non streaky) seedling out of Bill Nash's hybridizing-for-streaky line.
>
>Can anyone tell me from experience of the efect of flowering
>on seedlings?
>
>Peter Brandt-Sorheim,  Mt. Morris, NY
>*************
Peter
I let the flowers start to open, and then take off the scape.  In a few
weeks this will cause the plant (usually) to start a basil whorl of new
shoots.  You can make some crosses , and let the plant set seed, but
frequently this is to much strain and you wind up with a dead plant.
Ran Lydell>
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