HUMMER'S SPLASH
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HUMMER'S SPLASH
I have been looking for this all winter and feared for the worst....... I'd used Coke can strips to label the seedlings, and semi-buried them in the pots, but never got around to making a large label until last fall. It was too immature to send up a scape, so couldn't try any crosses. But I could never find it again after that.
This was a real looker, IMHO, and I guarded it from critters. And every day I couldn't find it, I sank deeper into depression.
I strongly considered taking Prozac, but I'd heard it could affect one's hostas.
Today I am happy to announce that during some cleanup and repotting I found it. And it has at least 4 eyes! Pretty fat, too for so young.
Will it be all green? Will it have shifted it's streaks to the edges? Who'da thunk breeding hostas could be so stressful? Angst, anxiety.......
My hunch is I got a goody from Hummer.
This was a real looker, IMHO, and I guarded it from critters. And every day I couldn't find it, I sank deeper into depression.
I strongly considered taking Prozac, but I'd heard it could affect one's hostas.
Today I am happy to announce that during some cleanup and repotting I found it. And it has at least 4 eyes! Pretty fat, too for so young.
Will it be all green? Will it have shifted it's streaks to the edges? Who'da thunk breeding hostas could be so stressful? Angst, anxiety.......
My hunch is I got a goody from Hummer.
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great seedling mal. no wonder you were anxious. i've had some streakers for as much as 5 years before they have bloomed. i think its part genetics and part stored energy and available water. thats always a dilema with one with so much white. do you give it more sun to encourage bloom, but also risk the white burning.
doug
doug
That's good to know... I've got a blue seedling that has only 10% mottling streak, but with good substance and possible corrigation--I'll probably keep it for a while.
I made a note last fall that this year I would cull my mature streakers, of ones that had stablized into uninteresting plants, (or remove the stable eyes) and just cull out the breeders in general, leaving just the best. Not much sense allowing pollination, germinating, all the work in raising, of offspring plants from parents that should have been culled.
I made a note last fall that this year I would cull my mature streakers, of ones that had stablized into uninteresting plants, (or remove the stable eyes) and just cull out the breeders in general, leaving just the best. Not much sense allowing pollination, germinating, all the work in raising, of offspring plants from parents that should have been culled.
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