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Re: [PRIMROSES] Variegated Hosta propagation

> Clyde Crockett suggested that variegated hostas may result from sowing seed
> from variegated mother plants.
>
> Nancy Swell commented:
> <I think that the odds are almost nonexistant>

>
>Also, what about using a Dorothy Benedict hybrid as a pod parent--one is apt
>to get a variegated seedling, no?
>

For what it is worth, those of us who try for variegated seedlings try to
find a "streaky" where the variegation has gone all the way up the stem to
the seed pod. It does work. Almost all of the variegation from solid color
plants comes from mutations, and frankly, I'm much too old to wait..... A
very few plants are unstable enough to yield a fairly high percentage of
variegation.... Beatrice being one. Am not familiar with the Dorothy
Benedict hybrids......
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