Ipomoea Heavenly Blue Seedling - Interesting First Leaves

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Jessamine79 Hobart, Australia Sep 20, 2010

Hi everyone, I'm completely new but fingers crossed my garden prospers and I have much to contribute into the future! :)

I had some Heavenly Blue seeds left over I bought last year (I put the ones I grew last year outside too early with no protection and they were eaten by local wildlife overnight :( ) and three sprouted. Out of that three one put out variegated leaves that were mostly white as it's first seed leaves. The other two have normal coloured leaves.

Strangely enough this one with the mostly white leaves seems to be the strongest of the three. I have been leaving them outside as much as possible to stop them getting too leggy inside on my kitchen window and left them outside overnight where they caught a slight frost. They went a little floppy but bounced back with warmth and water, the white one seemed least effected and bounced back first.

Has anyone else seen seedlings like this? I've attached a pic :) It's first proper leaf appears to be normal so far.

As a side note I'm going to be growing Scarlett O'Hara (or whatever they turn out to be - they are just little seedlings right now), Chocolate (which I just ordered) and maybe Reiko if they sprout, I had Ushio left over from last year and none sprouted :(

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EmmaGrace Jacksonville, TX(Zone 8a) Sep 21, 2010

HI Jessamine79 -

Leaves that are that pale are usually associated with plants that are unable to make enough chlorophyll to survive, so this plant may eventually die if enough green isn’t produced. I will be curious what the next set of leaves will look like. If they have enough green in the leaves perhaps some balance will occur that will allow the plant to survive with some albino leaves.

I had this exact same thing occur with an I. nil this year. The leaves were neat with those albino leaves, but the plant just sat there for a few weeks, produced a few leaves with more green, even produced a couple of blooms, then eventually died.

Hope this helps
Emma


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Jessamine79 Hobart, Australia Sep 21, 2010

Hi Emma,

Well that was my concern, that the plant would be unable to feed itself. It's strange that in this early stage, when all it had was those leaves, it should be doing better than it's 'sisters'. It is starting to get it's first set of real leaves, which look a normal green. I hope it fares better than your poor plant.

Thanks for your response!

Jess

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