Seed color and bloom color relationship in Ipomoea purpurea

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gofast Aschaffenburg, Germany Mar 13, 2008

With Ipomoea nils, so Dr. Yoneda says, bloom color and seed color are not necessarily related...so you could have a white flower either from a dark or light-colored seed.

I haven't grown too many ipomoea purpureas to establish if this also applied to the purpureas, but would expect this to be so.

So far, all I can see in my German and Italian seed packets are black, beige and brown seeds.

I am also looking at the various sizes and shapes to find out if there is a relationship between seed size and the size of the blooms...


Martin

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Gourd Mesilla Park, NM Mar 13, 2008

I noticed that the Fuji Shibori seeds were huge (like twice the size of the normal I. nils) and the cotyledons were huge. The flowers were floppier that then rest, not necessarily bigger. This is a good observation point you brought up, it will be interesting to see what others have to say.

The platycodon seeds looked more roundish on my seeds and were bigger than the ones I got in trades, so I don't know if they are normally that size, I guess with each one getting different nutrients and depending their growing environment, there will be a distinct difference in the size of the seeds.

edited to say: I just noticed you only asked about purpureas.. they are generally small, but can vary in size also depends on same principal as above and on how they are stored. Some dry up so much they look like they shrunk.

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RON_CONVOLVULACEAE Netcong, NJ(Zone 5b) Mar 14, 2008

Generally light seeds produce plants with lighter flowers and with an attenuated degree of pigmentation as may be distributed elsewhere throughout the plant(e.g., degree of stem pigmentation),but there are exceptions...e.g., some dark colored seeds produce white flowers and pigmented stems although it is rarer to see very light seeds produce dark flowers and darkly pigmented stems...

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