Here is one of the seedlings that already has auxillary shoots sprouting from the main stem. Seedling is 2.5 inches tall and is just beginning to set its 3rd set of leaves.
Joydie
Eric's Isabella Seedling
Nice looking plant cc. Keep up the good work. You'll have flowers before you know it.
Joydie, won't that baby look a little funny with a 12 inch flower hanging from the little Y........ You may have the youngest ever, blooming brug.
Is this really a "Y"? Oh my gosh!! At first I thought it was and then reconsidered and dismissed it. Then a few days later I saw the second set of leaves coming from the little "Y" and decided that I have to take a picture to post.
I confess that I have been using Schultz's 20-30-20 PLUS on my new seedlings, but I have not seen this development on any of the other brug seedlings.
I looked at some other seedlings and a similar occurance is happening with the only 2 LBJ x European hybrid cross seedlings that I have. The sprouts are just starting to develop and will not show in a photo yet, but I will post a photo when they are more clearly visible
I will have to keep my eye on these 4 plants.
Actually, I don't think it is a Y, but if that branch is left to grow, it might just surprise you. The Y's that my brugs have produced are pretty much upright unless the whole brug grows sideways.
S.
It's what we call a vegetative break, I know there is another name for it. I noticed that some of mine have lots of side branches. I've been experimenting with them.
I have noticed that kind of growth when the tip was broken or damaged on a seedling with 2 pairs of leaves. Cala, could you post some of your findings for us on vegetative breaks? I'm not familiar with that term.
Brugman, that's what we call the little axillary buds that are on a cutting of impatiens or begonias. The cutting will only be a straight stick of a plant unless it has these "breaks". It's what the green house I worked at years ago called them and I guess for lack of a better term, I've used it too. I guess it was so we could distinguish vegetative breaks from bud breaks.
Thanks Cala,
It seems to be very different from the vegetative growth on the other brugs. The other brugs have the vegetative growth coming out where a leaf joins the main stem. The main stem on the plants in question went off on a 45 degree angle and is continuing to grow. This growth in question appeared at the same time the main stem went off on the 45 degree angle.
I guess I will just have to wait and see what these 4 seedlings continue to do.
Joydie
When the leaves come from the stem in an asymetrical way, instead of side by side, doesn't that mean these leaves w ere crowded by a bud? And may probably produce a bloom?
Assuming that the plant had forked?