Ok---I know I promised to not post unrelated stuff for a long time but ummm well I just need pointed in the right direction. I remember a post that Ludger wrote on "without chemicals" concerning a brug that had varigated. My question is------what kind of chemical do you add to a plant to cause varigation? I know you will all think Im nuts but i wanted to try it on a pumpkin vine. I dont care if the seeds will reproduce the varigation---I just want to see if it can be done and how it will look. Pumpkin leaves are so theatrical, ---to have them varigated would be neat, I had never actually paid attention to them until they started to overtake one of my beds and decided i HAD to have some growing by the pond. I realize that the answer to this question could be lengthy---but if you could hyperlink me in the right direction I would appreciate it. cheryl
varigation question?
Hi Cheryl... ..I don't know of any chemicals used to produce variegation (although I'm sure they're out there) or know any Brug where variegation has been induced by chemicals! Your best bet would be to join the Home Tissue Culture group...To subscribe, send an empty message to hometissueculture-subscribe@makelist.com
Best of luck,
Bruno
Cheryl,
I think what you are talking about is a virus that is injected into a plant to cause varigation. I'm sure Cala will be along to explain the whole process to you.
THank God we have Cala! LOL
Glory, are you sure that I am the rigth person to mention such possibillities to *lol* Now I can`t sleep, before I can find whatever plant that has such virus and variegate a few plants down here *lol*
We have a variegated scented geranium that smells like peppermint. Should I experiment with it? I could blend one small tiny leaf and put on my white "Dr. Hansen-coat" that I got from J. L. Hudson and Lenes small, round glasses and give a Brug an injection.
No harm, right? "Just a little prick with the pin, my little Brug, and it will all soon be over" :)
Well, personally I prefer the natural mutations, but also when thinking deeper someone said that all in the universe is composed by atoms. Atoms form molecules that form proteins and proteins form DNA and RNA. A natural mutation or a mutation formed by an injection ... is there a difference. After all both is basicly a change in the way that the atoms exchange electrons and protons and make a different electrical currency.
I think it is about my own fear of playing God, when I prefer natural occurences over occurences in a laboratory, but as we all are a part of God and do it`s work nothing that we do can be unnatural, so that is why I also sometimes has to challenge my own fears... thanks to several such fearless peoples interference in natures ways we have a bunch of stunning Brugmansia hybrids, that never would have made it a single day in the nature of South America *lol* Just a little train of thoughts before bedtime here. I always gets a little wierd whan sleepy :)
sighhhhhhhhhh Tonny you are so deep-------- had to get an extra cup of coffee to contemplate that. I wish I could make a pumpkin leaf look like a caladium leaf....(without magic markers) lol I was just lost in the leaf shape and the way they layer over each other, and I had no idea they could get so tall---nothing seems to like to eat them either and weeds dont do well under their canopy. the only draw back is that the snakes seem to like to hide from he sun under them. :S cheryl