Tropicals & Tender Perennials: My Variegated Plumie!! :), 0 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Michael, it does not look like the variegated ones that I've seen coming out of Thailand. I agree that it does look more similar to chlorosis or even spider mites. I hate to burst your bubble of excitement so bear in mind that I could be wrong. I have a cultivar called "Henry Apples Dupress" that exhibits this same pattern, and I believe it is a nutrient deficiency of some sort. You could test out that theory, as Kell said, by applying some iron chelate to see if the new leaves exhibit this same pattern. The iron chelate won't change the existing leaves back to green but will only affect the new leaves. Variegation tends to be a more even pattern if it is a chimera, I think. Here is a picture of one variegated plumeria below. That is nice branching in your seedlings.

This message was edited Apr 5, 2006 8:48 PM