Weather and color affects on JMG

Here is a result of a Chachamaru seed that had to have gotten cross pollinated because it came out blue. The leaves look like the Chachamaru. I noticed the flowers are all shaped funny with the petals like this and this morning I saw the familiar "paint drying affect" from the cold in the morning no doubt. When it was warmer they all were a uniform blue but this morning I noticed this affect and took a picture. I thought it was interesting. It looks like these flowers do not make pollen and the seeds off this vine will be the result of the work of the bees once again since I didn`t work with any of them and I can`t find pollen on them.



This message was edited Oct 22, 2006 6:28 PM

A closer up.

If the pistils are still functional any compatible pollen placed onto the stigma should work to fertilize it...

TTY,...

Ron

I noticed no pods on the vines. The bees may not be as busy lately with the weather being cold. I fixed two of them up with a yogiro.

Gorgeous color gardener, and I've never seen that effect before. Of course, my MG's were run o'the mill :)

Nice shooting,

~S

Thanks! This one vine with no pods on it yet had this interesting form from the first bloom. There is another related 1/2 sister vine that developed these flowers later on a more mature vine. I have seen this form sporadically on the yogiros in the back all year even when it is warm all the time so I suspect that may be the parent where the bees collected the pollen. I`m puzzled about is this the cold causing it or genetics? Maybe both? I figured this one is worth repeating so I pollinated it to see if it would set some seeds. My husband says "Ah,those are small." He is really way more impressed with the larger flowers I grew out. :) I think they are charming myself.

Gardener, it's a lovely bloom. I had planted a Chachamaru seed and a seedling I thought was SOH in a large pot in the back yard. The SOH was actually a blue Mt Fuji.
So now I have tons of seeds and going to gather some to see what I might end
up with.
Here's the blue Mt fuji on a cold rainy day a month ago, didn't get above 55.
It bloomed purple fading to blue. This was right before total darkness.

Very cool..refrigerated blooms. My husband is teasing me about my seed collecting. He yawned this morning and gazed over at my seeds on a plate and joked about them," You know they look like rat turds." He is getting a little jealous of the time it takes to pick seeds. :)