Re: reseeding perennials
- Subject: Re: [SG] reseeding perennials
- From: C* P*
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:20:55 EDT
In a message dated 7/5/01 2:35:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
msgardens@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
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Concerning plants changing color...my husband and I used to grow mums for
retail sale, and customers would tell of plants that changed color, usually
to white or yellow, I think. (Purple?) >>
In our family (again I must mention, not mine) nursery there is a huge mum
project every summer. Rooted cuttings come from somewhere and an assembly
line is set up. Someone fills the pots, someone inserts the cuttings,
someone puts in the preprinted label and someone trucks them off to the shade
for a day or two. My husband and I have both worked on this project as it
required many more workers than the nursery employs for the season. It has
been a sort of family fun thing.
When a pot blooms with two or more colors it is not saleable. This is always
because someone made a mistake insserting the cuttings or the bundles of
cuttings from the wholesaler contain mistakes. These plants become gifts to
the rest of us or are dumped. Sometimes a cutting will not bloom that year
on schedule, blooming later and maybe being one of the mistakes.
I think and I would need to quote tons of stuff here, that reversion is
always referred to in more than one generation of a plant. I do not think
that a a single clone can revert although variegated plants will often sprout
all green branches and leaves.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
