Last year I collected seed form an area that showed flowers with a blizzard type color break. I am growing a few plants from this seed this year and they are beginning to bloom.
Two plants so far have shown flowers with this blizzard pattern. The pattern is variable in that on one plant the first flower can be pink, the second showing a nice striped pattern and the third mostly white with a small bit of pink. It is all very interesting.
This plant (433-41-02) has the cleanest pattern.
a second flower from 433-41-02...
...a third flower from 433-41-02, showing more white.
This plant (442-43-04) has a nice soft pink flower...
..and a flower barely showing some lighter stripes...
...and 442-43-04 also had a mostly white flower...
Arlan
Lovely soft colors. Pretty.
What do the numbers mean?
Joanne
Arlan,
They are fantastic.. they look great. Are you saying the cordatotiloba was crossed with I. nil? WOW
Thanks Joanne, the numbers are the ID numbers for each plant. The first numbers are the seed lot the plant came from, the second set is a number I assign to each batch of seeds I start from a seed lot, and the final number is a consecutive number assigned to each plant that germinates from that batch. This way each plant number has a bit of history and information included.... A bit much, isn't it!!
Antoinette, no, these plants came from seed I collected from wild plants growing in the local area. There is a waste area nearby that is covered in these plants each year. Most of the flowers are pink, however last year I noticed one small area that had some white flowers. When I went closer to inspect, I noticed that some of the white flowers were in fact showing this blizzard pattern. I later collected seed from this area to see if I could isolate this pattern.
If I can get a more intense and darker pink, the blizzard pattern would be more noticable and dramatic. ...anybody have a darker colored I.cordatotriloba? I'm not sure how much I will do with them. I'm watching these closely to see what it takes to keep them contained and controlled....and then to maybe isolate a couple different strains.
Arlan
