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« on: July 23, 2009, 01:20:56 PM » |
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The first bloom, nice, a mini. Lasts for two days, the second day it loses the pink rim, and becomes uniformly gray. The bush is small, a slow grower, but compact and full of buds.
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Charlie
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« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2009, 04:09:10 PM » |
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Exactly the same as it does here, Nina. Might last longer in cooler weather but the bush is extremely compact and small but loads up with buds. There are few hibiscus that stay really small and it is not usually a positive trait but there may be some use for such plants in limited spaces. Double Date never really caught on despite winning HOTY - it is another naturally small plant.
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nina
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2009, 11:14:44 AM » |
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Surprise!
Look at this mutation! I wonder if it will last. It is really strange.
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« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2009, 11:26:25 AM » |
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Oh neat nina! You should post that pic under the sport thread  |
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Darkhorse
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« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2009, 12:15:33 PM » |
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WOW!!! You should try to graft it!
So cool... the biochem behind that stuff just amazes me!
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Charlie
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« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2009, 02:18:18 PM » |
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Wow, Nina! That one is really pretty, and quite unexpected. As you know, watch for a second flower from that branch and then graft it!
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nina
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« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2009, 12:53:15 PM » |
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The second bloom on the branch of the yellow bloom: this youngster is really undecided about what he wants to be in life.
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Charlie
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« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2009, 07:53:13 PM » |
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Wow, Nina, that is a very strange development! I wonder what is going on.........please let us know what develops.
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Darkhorse
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« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2009, 09:36:31 PM » |
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Charlie do you see mutations that act like this very often?
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Charlie
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« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2009, 07:46:38 AM » |
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No, these color mutations in the flower that we commonly call "sports" are pretty rare. For one to be an improvement on the original flower, or at least an interesting alternative, is even more rare. In Oz a variety named 'Dorothy Brady' made several different sports that were kept and grown as new varieties but that is very rare for any cultivar to do. A very general guess would be that visible "sports" happen with 1 in a million flowers. Could be 1 in 10,000,000 but whatever the actual number it is not common.
One thing that happens more often is for the weed killer Round-up to drift on the wind and end up on a hibiscus bud. That tiny amount of Round-up does not damage the plant but can cause unusual changes in the bud it lands on. However, the changes in that flower are only seen in that flower and other buds on the plant then and in the future will be normal. Typically the type of speckling seen in Wild Dream is what you see on flowers that were affected by Round-up, but in the case of Wild Dream it is natural.
Another aspect of this question of "sports" is whether mutation type changes other than flower color also occur with hibiscus. This would be harder to notice but it seems possible that other traits could also change and if noticed could be captured by grafting that part of the plant that changed.
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nina
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« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2009, 12:27:24 PM » |
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No sport, the young men has returned to the routine....
ciao, Nina
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« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2009, 12:52:21 PM » |
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Hello Nina,I like it more when it was out of routine  |
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Charlie
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« Reply #12 on: September 05, 2009, 08:15:50 AM » |
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Ah well, good sports are hard to come by!
I may have discovered a sport of Dupont's City Slicker the other day. It was the same flower except the outer band was a brown color. I am watching to see if it repeats.
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nina
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« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2009, 12:03:50 PM » |
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he,he, the sport saga continues,the new bloom (pay attention to the red eye, the first mutant did not have it)
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« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2009, 12:18:50 PM » |
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Wow, Nina! You're lucky! Good attention to detail there too. Are you going to try and prop. it?
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