Someone has just told me that variegation doesn't pass through seed. True or not?
Variegation
Don`t know about Brugs, but in Datura variegation certainly will. I had an inquiry recently from a hybridizer, that had been working some years now with a variegated line of speciments of D. stramonium ... as Brugs and Dats are genetically reasonalbe similar I will exspect variegation to pass through seeds here also, but in different degrees from specimen to specimen I guess.
Variegation can be passed easily thru seed in many kinds of plants.Brugs variegation can be passed on..but the Chromosome count on Brugs is double the norm.That is why the offspring are so variable.One seed pod can produce up to 50 or more different characteristics in the progeny.Variegation was usually a result of Chimeras..or branch mutations that were later rooted and produced.In some cases then they were mass produced by tissue culturing.So go ahead and try some seeds of your variegated plants...
Eclipse, like African Violets!! They have more chromosomes and the gene pool is huge. No two seeds ever produce like plants.
Liz,
please go ahead and try hybridizing the variegated plant that you have...oh by the way, I would love to buy a cutting in the spring of the variegated one you have...
Joydie
Please remind me - a dead head here.
Liz,
Thanks. I have it marked on the calender for April...that is the only way I will remember. I'm functionally senile...LOL.
Joydie