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By ChefDean
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I noticed this today.
This is my filiformis var Floridana "Florida Red, White Flower", seed grown from seeds received from Shadowtski. This one plant in the bunch seems to put out bifurcated flower stalks regularly, two simultaneously this time.
However, one seems to have decided to revert back to pink flowers 90% of the way through.
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I'll have to isolate and collect seed from this and any other pink ones and grow them up next year, maybe find a tester to try them out as well.
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These are the only filiformis that I have flowering, so these seeds won't be, and the seeds I grew these plants from were selfed.
Well, come to think of it, they could be OP from the other plants I grew from the same batch of seeds.
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Found a third bifurcated flower stalk. All three are coming from the same plant, but just the one is showing a pink flower. The rest are all white.
If they do it next year, I might have to take cuttings to share and see if it's a local thing or genetic.
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Likely just a very localized micro-mutation, but I'm going to remove all the pods below it to isolate those seeds to grow next year.
I'm more interested in the higher incidence of the split stalks.
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Well, Chef, if you get more of the dual flower colors and put some of the seeds in the seed bank you could call them Florida Red Schizoid Flower. "Schizoid" being no reflection on the donor, of course...well, maybe just a wee bit. :mrgreen:
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By Intheswamp
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There's something in that Florida Red's genes, Chef... I had my loping shears out knocking off the old flower stalks on the Florida Red White Flower that I got last October from you. As I grabbed a stalk I thought I had two of them between my fingers...and I looked a little closer.
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By ChefDean
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With the developer and builder in my neighborhood, I wouldn't doubt it. That would explain the third ear I've got growing on my shoulder.
These FR, WF are from an isolated population, so it's possible that some genetics got condensed down into the populace. Maybe the pink flower thing will show up in more.
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