Avalanche
gave me two odd leaves.
last date this page was updated
11/04/2004 07:59:25 PM
Nothing out of the ordinary showed up in
the propagation of these two sets of leaves
Bob Serbin
gives off some fantastic plantlets. I couldn't believe the variety! I will
be prepared in the future. Never will I ever let a hybrid go without
having a proven true plantlet from it. In this case I still had the
original so I was able to enjoy the "tricks" Bob Serbin likes to
pull. This is one of the "tricks" and I think it is beautiful. I
have called it Bob Serbin Sport.
Bob Serbin Sport
Mermaid
Appears to be leading a double life. She is a fantasy and the heat got
to her. I thought at first my husband was playing a trick on me but
she really has two different colored blooms. She did settle down for
her second blooming and did what she was supposed to do.
SKY TRAILER
This poor leaf went through the mill and it is a wonder it is doing anything at all! It had just begun peeking out of the
soil, the next time I checked I found it had been knocked over and was
laying there bare roots and all. I think it was caught on a shirtsleeve and went unnoticed. It had just begun looking good
again but was on one of the trays that suffered a good bout of white powdery mildew and it was just covered with it! I hope it is
as strong a plant as it was a baby. I have never seen a baby grow like this! That is a baby growing on the leaf just on the top
of the stem and another at the base. One of the vein's were broken and that is where it started from.
When all else fails and there is no way you can fake a stem try
wedges! They work and here is the proof! Just make sure you have
a "vein" in your wedge. Press it into your rooting medium
just hard enough to cover the bottom cut and wait! It doesn't take any
longer than a regular leaf cutting.
Here is a seed pod. It
often happens that a pistel gets caught between the 2 anthers and when the
blossom opens entirely the pistil with the sticky end gets pulled through
and tears the anthers where the powdery pollen is stored. I call
this a self cross.
